Canadian Neuroscience Seminars – Post-doc series November 7, 2024: Allison Barry and Sietske Annette Berghuis
2024-11-07 @ 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker #1 Dr. Allison Barry. University of Vienna and University of Texas at Dallas. Bluesky/Twitter: @aliibarry
Title : Predicting “pain genes”: multi-modal -omics data integration using probabilistic classifiers and interaction networks.
Bio: Ali has a background in sensory physiology and bioinformatics, with a focus on pain pathophysiology. After an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at Dalhousie University in Canada, she did her MSc through the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, followed by a PhD at the University of Oxford with Prof. David Bennett, looking at the molecular profiling of primary sensory neurons and their role in neuropathic pain. She currently splits her time between the University of Vienna and University of Texas at Dallas using multi-omic methods to understand pain pathophysiology.
Speaker #2 Dr. Sietske Annette Berghuis. York University.
Title: Thyroid Hormone Metabolism at Adolescence and Prenatal levels of Persistent Organic Pollutants.
Sietske Berghuis, MD PhD, is a post-doctoral fellow at York University, Toronto. She received her Medical Degree and PhD at the University Medical Center in Groningen, the Netherlands. The focus of her PhD was on the effects of prenatal exposure to persistent organic pollutants on neurodevelopment and the endocrine system until adolescence. Sietske is a psychiatrist in training and interested in understanding the possible role of environmental chemicals in the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. The current research projects aim to assess the impact of early-life exposure to chemical compounds on neuropsychological outcomes and thyroid hormone metabolism in children.
Sietske did receive the Academy Ter Meulen Grant from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in The Netherlands and a post-doctoral grant from York University to support her for her current post-doctoral fellowship at the research group of prof. C. Till at York University.
