Principal Investigators – Areas of Expertise
Full Core Members
Assistant Professor, Physiology & Pathophysiology
Brainstem-spinal cord in-vitro electrophysiology, neuronal microcircuit formation, optogenetic and photomanipulation, transgenic mouse models, viral tracers, confocal microscopy, chx10 brainstem neurons, spinal V3 interneurons, in-vivo electrophysiology, spinal cord injury and exercise, stretch reflexes, gene expression.
Associate Professor, Physiology & Pathophysiology
Director, Spinal Cord Research Centre
In vitro electrophysiology and neuropharmacology, studies of spinal cord motor pattern generation and coordination, and adult rat spinal cord injury and motor training and recovery. Human neuromechanics, exercise physiology, and prevention and treatment of secondary complications of spinal cord injury.
Associate Professor, Physiology & Pathophysiology
Regeneration and Repair strategies for treatment of Spinal cord injury and Stroke. Pharmacological and Stem Cell Replacement Approaches to enhance neural cell protection, Manipulation of Redox Regulating systems in nervous system.
Associate Professor, Physiology & Pathophysiology
Electrical properties of motoneurons, modulation during locomotion, spinal motor circuitry.
Professor, Physiology & Pathophysiology
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Kinesiology & Recreation Management
Adaptations in spinal cord, neuromuscular junction and muscle to alterations in chronic activity levels; adaptability of biophysical, neurochemical and morphological properties of motoneurons.
Professor, Physiology & Pathophysiology
Neural repair and regeneration in spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis, regenerative medicine, neural stem cell biology and therapeutics, myelin biology and repair, preclinical modeling, CNS neuroinflammation and immune modulation, glial scar and matrix remodeling, pharmacological and bioengineered drug delivery systems for spinal cord regeneration, genetic models for studying neural differentiation and mechanisms, neural plasticity and neurological recovery in spinal cord injury and MS, cellular and molecular approaches in neuroscience, neuroanatomical and imaging techniques, primary in vitro models.
Professor Emeritus, Physiology & Pathophysiology
Spinal cord electrophysiology, spinal motor circuitry, pre- and postsynaptic control mechanisms.
Professor, Physiology & Pathophysiology
Neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, biochemistry, cell biology, immunohistochemistry, models of spinal cord and brain injury, gap junction structure and function.
M.D./Professor, Internal Medicine
In vitro electrophysiology and neuropharmacology, studies of spinal cord motor pattern generation.
Associate Professor, Physiology & Pathophysiology
Electrophysiology, brain, spinal cord, function network analysis, interneurons, sensory-motor coordination, reflex, surface EMGs, nerve stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Affiliate Members
M.D./Assistant Professor, Surgery, Neurosurgery Section
Clinical studies, spinal cord autoregulation, mitigation of secondary injury, spinal cord perfusion pressure, acute traumatic spinal cord injury.
M.D./Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Section of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Clinician/researcher in spinal cord injury rehabilitation, neuropharmacology, pain, spasticity, neurogenic bladder.
Associate Professor, Human Anatomy and Cell Science
Axonal regeneration, CNS myelin, MAG, SLPI, Smad2, TGF-beta signaling, reactive astrogliosis.
Assistant Professor, Radiology
Spinal cord functional magnetic resonance imaging; human spinal cord neuroimaging; studies of sensory, motor, and affective processes in the spinal cord with spinal cord fMRI.
Assistant Professor, Human Anatomy and Cell Science
Cellular imaging, fluorescence confocal, live in vivo imaging, correlative EM, tissue clearing, 3-D imaging, transgenics, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, RNA-sequencing, neural stem cell behaviour.
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Recreation Management
Postural changes, exercise, perfusion pressure, O2 availability, vascular conductance/resistance, blood flow, O2 uptake, implications for the muscular system.
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