The Interdisciplinary Substance Use And Brain Injury (ISUBI) center, to be completed in 2022, will be housed in a 16,000 sq ft facility with state-of-the art laboratories and clinical research testing spaces. This center will provide significant new space and opportunities for faculty and trainees working to find treatments for substance abuse and brain injury.
Please welcome our newest faculty member, Andrew Boyce. He received a BSc. in Biology & Anthropology at the University of Victoria (2012). He earned his Ph.D. in Neurosciences (2017) working in the lab of Dr. Leigh Anne Swayne from the University of Victoria, where he studied protein trafficking in neural cells. Following his Ph.D. degree, he underwent postdoctoral training at the University of Calgary (2017-2024) under the supervision of Dr. Roger Thompson, where he developed an awake and freely behaving murine ischemic stroke model. In 2022, Andrew contributed to the development of novel microscopy techniques in the lab of Dr. Valentin Nägerl (Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France). Andrew's lab will explore the impact of hippocampal spreading depolarizations during stroke and seizure on brain function. In particular, they will explore how these waves affect memory in the acute window after a stroke or seizure and outwards across the lifespan.
