SCIENTIFIC TEAM
 The passionate LEADER and DIRECTORDr. Rosanna Olsen |
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Dr. Rosanna Olsen
Dr. Olsen is the passionate LEADER and DIRECTOR of the Olsen Lab. She is a Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute (RRI) at Baycrest and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.
She received her PhD in Psychology with concentration in cognitive neuroscience from Stanford University in California. She then completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest.
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Mrinmayi Kulkarni
Mrinmayi is a postdoctoral research fellow in the labs of Drs. Rosanna Olsen and Brad Buchsbaum at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest.
She completed her Masters in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of York, UK, and completed her Ph.D. in Psychology with a concentration in Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA . During her graduate training, she utilized behavior, eye-tracking, and fMRI to examine the interactions between long-term memory and other systems such as attention and cognitive control.
She is interested in using multimodal techniques to investigate how brain networks underlying encoding and retrieval are flexibly recruited to guide behavior, and aims to examine how these processes change with age and disease, with an emphasis on identifying factors that may alleviate age-related cognitive decline.
Graham Flick
Graham Flick is a postdoctoral fellow in the labs of Drs. Rosanna Olsen, Jennifer Ryan, and Jed Meltzer at the Rotman Research Institute.
He completed his Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience at Dalhousie University before spending three years as a Research Assistant in the MEG Lab of New York University Abu Dhabi. He then completed his PhD in Cognitive Psychology at New York University, where his research examined visual word recognition and semantic processing in reading, using a combination of MEG, MRI, and eye-tracking.
Graham is broadly interested in elucidating the brain systems that support language and memory, and characterizing how these systems may break down in disease and aging.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Negar Mazloum-Farzaghi, PhD4
Negar is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. She is co-supervised by Dr. Rosanna Olsen and Dr. Jennifer Ryan.
She completed her Honours Bachelor of Science in Psychology at York University. Some of her experiences in cognitive neuroscience include delivering research based interventions to patients with dementia in order to investigate effects on memory, as well as exploring the neuroscience of learning and memory in younger and older adults.
She is interested in examining the structural brain changes that occur in older adults who are exhibiting early signs of cognitive decline, as well as identifying specific regions of the brain that are affected by neurological impairments.
Lydia is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto.
She completed her Bachelor of Science at the University of Alberta with concentrations in Psychology as well as a minor in Biological Science. She then went on to complete her Master of Science in Psychological Science at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (UIUC). Her experiences range from working with healthy adults and subclinical population to conducting neuroimaging and EEG experiments.
Her current project investigates visual discrimination and white matter MTL structures.
Lydia Jiang, PhD4
Nick Hoang, PhD4
Nick is a graduate student, co-supervised by Drs. Rosanna Olsen and Bradley Buchsbaum, in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto.
His research assesses pattern completion and pattern separation as a function of eye movements, brain activations, healthy aging, and hippocampal amnesia.
In 2016 and under the supervision of Drs. Shayna Rosenbaum and Morris Moscovitch, he assessed pattern separation in the auditory and visual modalities of healthy older adults and amnesic patients; the findings were presented as a nano-symposium talk at Neuroscience 2017 in Washington, D.C.
In 2018, he conducted an fMRI study under Dr. Morris Moscovitch to assess gist and detailed mnemonic discrimination of highly similar scenes along the hippocampal longitudinal axis. The behavioural and neuroimaging results were presented as posters in Neuroscience 2019 in Chicago and Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2020 in Boston, respectively.
For access to his online CV, please click on the link below:
http://www2.psych.utoronto.ca/Neuropsychologylab/nick.html
Savannah Tremblay, PhD2
Savannah is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto.
She recently completed her Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her previous research experiences examined differences in recognition memory across different modalities, and the directed-forgetting paradigm.
Her current project will examine how brain oscillations contribute to different aspects of memory.
stremblay@research.baycrest.org
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS AND VOLUNTEERS
Allyson Pinnock
Research Assistant
Summer 2024- Present
Niroja Balakumar
Research Assistant
Summer 2022 to Present
Aerin Wang
Research Assistant
Summer 2024 to Present
Xuan Zhang
Research Assistant
Fall 2022 to Present
Barbara Gundi
Research Assistant
Summer 2022 to Present
LAB ALUMNI
Kirk Geier
Graduate Student
2018 - 2023
Samuel Hsu
Research Assistant
Summer 2023 to Fall 2023
Cassidy Lamirande
Research Assistant Summer 2023
Tanya Doshi
Research Assistant
Fall 2021 to Winter 2022
Linke Yu
Research Assistant
Fall 2018 to Summer 2022
Amir Motabar
Research Assistant
Winter 2022 to Fall 2022
Wei Shao
Research Assistant
Fall 2019 to Winter 2022
Catherine Wang
Research Assistant
Fall 2019 to Winter 2022
Anika Choi
Research Assistant
Fall 2018 to Winter 2022
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Zenan (Tommy) Tang
Research Volunteer
Summer 2019 - Spring 2021
Juliet Fowler
Research Assistant
Summer 2021
Nathanael Shing
Lab Manager: 2018 - 2020
Medical Student
Verena Mikhail
Research Assistant
Winter 2017 to Fall 2018
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Lauren Iafrate
Research Assistant
Summer 2019
Keisha Joseph
Research Assistant
Winter 2018
Nahid Iseyas
Research Volunteer
Fall 2017-June 2019
Leanne Mendoza
Research Assistant: Summer 2016 to Fall 2019
Graduate Student, UCL
Jessica Robin
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2016-2019
Scientist at Winterlight Labs
Mikaeel Valli
Lab Manager: Fall 2016 - Summer 2018
Graduate Student, UofT
Shamanth Chedde
Research Assistant
Fall 2017
Rachelle Martell
Research Assistant
Fall 2016 to Spring 2017
Anastasia Liu
Research Assistant
Summer 2016
Yesh Rai
Research Assistant
Summer 2016
Claire Lung
Research Assistant
Fall 2016 to Spring 2017
Aasritha Thotakura
Research Assistant
Summer 2017
Kristine Jeganathan
Research Assistant
Summer 2017
Yumna Farooq
Research Assistant
Winter 2017 to Summer 2017
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Dr. Olsen invites the lab over for a Christmas party!
Lunch with Leanne before she heads to graduate school. We will miss you!
Dr. Olsen invites the lab over for a Christmas party!