Our postdoc Paul is on a roll: giving talks, presenting posters, wining awards, and even publishing a paper! Join us in celebrating his recent adventures and accomplishments!

First, on May 16th, Paul participated in the “120-Second Research Sprint” at Western Postdoctoral research Forum hosted by the Postdoctoral Association. If you want to know, in 120s, what Paul’s been working on, you can listen to his talk by clicking here.

Next, Paul was very busy during the Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN) 17th Canadian Neuroscience Meeting held in Vancouver, BC. Paul presented two posters: 1) Acute D-serine rescues spatial pattern separation deficits in aged adult mice and is sufficient to improve pattern separation in young adult mice (May 20th) and 2) Exercise and its mimetic metformin restore spatial memory in diet-induced obesity (May 22nd). Additionally, Paul co-moderated the CAN EDI event “Sex and Gender in Neurosciences” with Dr. Haley Vecchiarelli with esteemed panelists Drs. Caroline Ménard, Bita Moghaddam, Justin Matheson, and Liisa Galea.

On May 31st, Paul along with TCNLab postdoc, Olamide Adebiyi, attended the inaugural meeting of the Canadian Association for Neuroscientists who study Glia (CANGlia) held in Ottawa at Carleton University. His poster entitled “Activation of astrocyte G_q-signaling in the dorsal hippocampus and medial amygdala is sufficient to facilitate social memory in female and male mice” was awarded best postdoctoral poster presentation, and was particularly meaningful to him as it was his first time presenting his data collected from his Petro-Canada Young Innovators Award.

In addition to all these accomplishments, he is also the first author of a recent (June 6th!) eNeuro publication on how “the granular retrosplenial cortex is necessary in male rats for object-location associative learning and memory, but not spatial working memory or visual discrimination and reversal, in the touchscreen operant chamber”. Read our most recent TCNLab publication here.

Watch out for Dr. Paul Sheppard! We think he’s a superstar researcher and lab member!