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Canadian Neuroscience Seminars – Post-doc series December 7: Alex Wiesman & Razan Sheta
2023-12-07 @ 15:00 - 16:00
DATE: Thursday, December 7, 2023
TIME: 12pm PT/3pm ET
ZOOM LINK: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/85212853616
SPEAKER: Alex Wiesman, McGill University
TITLE: Multi-spectral neurophysiological slowing in patients with neurodegenerative disorders
Alex completed his PhD at the University of Nebraska Medical Center as a NIH predoctoral fellow, and is now a CIHR Banting and NIH F32 postdoctoral fellow at the Montreal Neurological Institute. He uses multimodal neuroimaging to study the proteinopathic and neurochemical bases of electrophysiological changes in patients with neurodegenerative disorders.
His recent research has demonstrated a spatially-resolved shift of cortical rhythms towards slower patterns of signaling, which tracks the accumulation of proteinopathy and hallmark clinical outcomes in patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
Twitter: @AlexWiesman
SPEAKER: Razan Sheta, University of Laval
TITLE: Development of a novel optogenetic based model of alpha-synuclein aggregation to study Parkinson’s disease
Razan Sheta is a post-doctoral fellow who specializes in a-synuclein and Parkinson’s disease, currently conducting ground-breaking research under the guidance of Dr. Abid Ouelsati at ULaval. Notably, her work includes the development of a light-inducible protein clustering system for in vivo analysis of α-synuclein aggregation in Parkinson’s disease.
Razan earned her Ph.D. in ovarian cancer, focusing on a metabolic labeling approach for glycoproteomic analysis. This significant contribution was conducted at ULavaL under the supervision of Dr. Dimcho Bachvarov and resulted in publications with Dr. Caroline Bertozzi, a recent Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.
Having a profound passion for merging her experiences in neuroscience and oncology, Razan finds immense satisfaction in connecting these diverse fields. Her academic journey also includes a master’s degree in Head and Neck Cancer from Lausanne, Switzerland, and a bachelor’s degree in genetics from UBC, Vancouver. During her undergraduate studies, she collaborated with the late Dr. El Husseini on deciphering a novel mechanism linking RILPL2, the motor protein MyoVa, and Rac1 with neuronal structure and function.
Twitter: @RazanSheta
