Dr. Melanie J. Sekeres, Ph.D.

Dr. Melanie Sekeres is the Principal Investigator of the Neuroscience Memory Laboratory at the University of Ottawa. Her research takes a cross-species approach to understanding how the brain creates episodic memories (memory for the ‘what, where and when’ of an event), and how these memories transform over time. She investigates the networks of brain regions involved in memory formation, reorganization, and storage (systems consolidation), and the underlying molecular mechanisms and plasticity factors that regulate memory stabilization (synaptic consolidation) in the healthy brain, and in brains with damage to the medial temporal lobes.

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 Dr. Sekeres holds a Canada Research Chair in 'Contributions of Neurocognitive Functioning to Brain Health' and is an assistant professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. She regularly teaches the course Learning & Conditioning (PSY3103).