“the Josselyonians”
The Josselyn lab seeks to understand how experiences are encoded, stored, and retrieved in the brain, focusing on identifying and manipulating the specific neuronal ensembles—or “engrams”—that represent individual memories.
The basolateral amygdala; cell nuclei labeled with DAPI in blue, specifically basolateral amygdala were labelled to fluoresce in green, delineating the region
Sheena Josselyn is a Senior Scientist in the program in Neurosciences & Mental Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the National Academy of Medicine (US). She holds a Canada Research Chair in Circuit Systems of Memory, and is appointed as a Full Professor in the Department of Psychology, Department of Physiology and Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto.
BSc Life Sciences, Queen’s University
BA Psychology, Queen’s University
PhD Neuroscience, University of Toronto
Postdoctoral fellow Yale University School of Medicine and UCLA, CA