NC4 Lab Joins Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Program
Michael Smith Health Research BC’s funding for 23 researchers through the 2023 Scholar competition will help develop, attract and retain BC’s best and brightest health researchers and support the advancement of world-class health research in the province.
Afsoon Gharib Mombeini wins Best Trainee Talk at the 2023 SBME Symposium!
NC4 PhD Candidate Afsoon Gharib Mombeini wins Best Trainee Talk at the 2023 SBME Symposium!
NC4 Lab Featured in New Video
See the NC4 Lab featured on social media channels of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health!
UBC Applied Science research awarded over $3.7 million from New Frontiers in Research Fund
The NFRF supports world-leading interdisciplinary, transformative and rapid-response Canadian-led research.
Our project: Modeling the geometry and symmetry of cognitive maps was awarded in the 2022 exploration stream
Alzheimer Disease Research Grants paving the way for earlier diagnosis and treatment
January is Alzheimer Awareness Month, and thanks to continued funding from the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health’s Alzheimer Disease Research Grants, our researchers are able to continue investigating new ways to better diagnose and treat AD. See an update to our 2021 announced project here!
Dr. Manu Madhav Co-Organizing the International Congress for Neuroethology
The International Society for Neuroethology promotes the study if the neural basis of behavior.
We are happy to announce the 2026 International Congress for Neuroethology will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The local organizing committee will consist of:
Doug Altshuler (chair)
Duncan Leitch
Ben Matthews
Manu Madhav
Kiran Soma
Thibault Niederhauser Presenting at NeurIPS 2022
Testing geometric representation hypotheses from simulated place cell recordings
NC4 Lab Master’s Student Thibault Niederhauser presenting extended abstract at NeurIPS 2022
SBME Professors Awarded Provincial Funding for Research to Improve British Columbians’ Lives
The BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF) has awarded over $20 million for 78 research projects being led by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Follow this link to learn more about our lab’s project!
Synergy Program student profile: Jessica Jung
Jessica Jung is a fourth-year UBC School of Biomedical Engineering student who is working with Dr. Manu Madhav as part of the SBME Synergy Undergraduate Summer Research Program. We caught up with Jessica to learn more about her experience in the program.
Winners of 2022 DMCBH Kickstart Grants announced
Drs. Manu Madhav and Jeremy Seamans:
Decoding the neural basis of contextual action in navigation
Neural representations are the combined activity states of populations of neurons. Representations in various regions of the brain such as hippocampus and associational cortices can encode sensorimotor or cognitive variables such as space, time, attention, contexts or actions. This project will focus on navigation (i.e. “actions in context”) to investigate both how the hippocampal formation represents task-relevant variables and how the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) modulates the actions associated with these variables when faced with a continuously changing context. Dr. Madhav’s expertise in large experimental apparatuses and closed-loop behavioural and neural manipulation will be leveraged alongside Dr. Seamans’ expertise in cortical recordings and statistical ‘big-data’ analyses to quantify the role of the hippocampus and ACC.
Winners announced for 2021 Alzheimer’s Disease Research Grant
Developing a Behavioural Biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis
Research team: Drs. Manu Madhav and Thalia Field
Project description: This research team is looking to determine navigational deficits associated with Alzheimer’s disease, an early marker of the disease. Human and animal models will take part in a physical maze that will become increasingly complex. The researchers will determine when study participants’ navigation capabilities become impaired, which would be the threshold at which brain dysfunction is evident. The end goal is to offer a diagnostic tool that can reliably detect the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease.