Kelly Cheung, HBSc, MSc.c

Hello, I'm Kelly! I graduated with a Honors bachelor of science specializing in neuroscience and minoring in biomedical communications and biology from UTM. I worked on a ROP and Biology thesis with Ben. Continuing my graduate work in the lab, my research will focus on the behavioral outcomes of handling stress and its neurophysiological correlates in zebrafish. My broad interest is in behavioral neuroscience.

Hi I'm Michael. I joined the lab in 2023 as an undergraduate student and completed an independent research project and BIO481 thesis with the lab. I'm now a PhD student in the Department of Psychology studying the underlying mechanisms of learning and memory and also explore  fundamental questions on how fish learn and remember.

In my free time, I like to go out.

Hello! My name is Steven Li and I recently graduated with an H.BSc. in Life Sciences, double majoring in Biology for Health Sciences and Psychology. I am a MEd candidate at OISE and  am concurrently the lab and compliance manager for the lab. In my free time, I enjoy going on hikes, working out at the gym, and playing the piano. 

Ben joined the lab during his undergrad and completed his Honors Bachelor of Science at the University of Toronto, and a Master of Science at Kings College London (UK).

Apart from his PhD, Ben has worked at the Hospital for Sick Children as a Clinical Research Manager, performing the middle cerebral arterial occlusion surgery.

He is the resident fish whisperer for the Gerlai lab with funding from the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (GLAS), the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and Animal Research Tomorrow (Swiss NGO). He has reviewed for over a dozen international journals and has produced 25 peer-reviewed publications in the field of behavioral neuroscience resulting in an h-index of 12. He is a Member of the Royal Society of Biology and serves as an editorial board member for PLOS One.

He teaches PSY352.

Ben is the recipient of the 2023 University of Toronto Mississauga Graduate Research Prize. 

He is a AIDA certified freediver and a PADI certified scuba diver, and likes to go on spontaneous trips.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=EETRxGgAAAAJ&view_op=list_works

Hi! I am Eren (yeah the spelling is like Eren Jaeger) from Ben's team. I am interested in most things, or at least I think I am. But I know that I love rocket ships. I don't have much experience with fish apart from having a goldfish when I was six that I may have killed because of overfeeding. Anyways, as an undergrad, I want to gain research experience from working with such experienced people in the Gerlai lab and hope to contribute to the lab's extensive research. If you have come this far, thanks for reading my blurb! 

Hello! My name is Jimin, and I am in my 4th year of undergrad specializing in Molecular Biology and minoring in Chemistry! I am currently working with our lab and compliance manager Steven to maintain our Zebrafish facility. In my free time, I like sleeping and watching movies!