Congratulations to PhD student Scott Squires for being awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) for his research titled, “The Neural Mechanisms of Repetitive Thought and Autobiographical Memory Processes“.

Scott has had a prosperous past academic year. In September 2021, he and his undergraduate student, Mianzhi Hu, won the 2^nd place Graduate Student Scholarship Award from the Canadian graduate student journal, Health Science Inquiry. Soon after in October 2021, he also won a Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience conference.

Well done Scott!

PhD student Cassandra Sgarbossa presented her research titled, “The treatment of microbe therapy in a longitudinal follow-up of psychiatric disorders: a systematic review” at the 33rd annual CINP Hybrid World Congress of Neuropsychopharmacology in the form of a virtual poster.

The conference took place both virtually and in-person in Taipei, Taiwan from June 9-13, 2022.

PhD student Cassandra Sgarbossa was invited to talk about gut health and psychiatric illnesses for a virtual Q&A session with Eastside Secondary School’s Gr.11 Biology class. Students asked a variety of questions such as:

• Are there ways to boost your mental health through bacteria?
• What kinds of food affect your mood?
• Can poor gut health lead to future psychiatric illnesses?
• How does a student get involved in research?
• Can you take bacteria (through biological samples) from a healthy individual and transplant it to someone with depression?

Thank you to Mrs. Lammers (teacher) & the entire Gr.11 class for such interesting questions!