Current Members
Program Manager
416-785-2500 x2335 sarnott@research.baycrest.org |
Steve Arnott
I am a Scientific Associate and Operations Manager for the Stroke Patient Research and Recovery Database (SPReD), Brain-CODE's neuroimaging data repository. In addition to overseeing quality assurance and control of those data, I am also a co-PI for the OBI-funded Traveling Human Subject MRI study designed to examine the within and between-site variance among 12 MR scanners across Ontario. My background is in auditory cognitive neuroscience, including auditory localization and cortical plasticity among auditory and visual brain regions. |
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Mojdeh Zamyadi
I joined Dr. Strother’s lab in 2015 as a Senior Research Assistant. I have been mainly involved in different projects with the CAN-BIND (Canadian Biomarker Integration Network in Depression) and ONDRI (Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative) platforms, including visual quality control of the MRI data, automatic quality assurance of DTI and fMRI phantom data, and preprocessing/analysis of fMRI data. I received my BMath in Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 2006 and completed my M.Sc. under the supervision of Dr. John G. Sled at the Mouse Imaging Centre in the Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto in 2009. During 2009-2011, I worked at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre as a research assistant. Prior to joining Dr. Strother’s lab, I worked as a clinical research project coordinator at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. |
Project Coordinator
416-785-2500 x3453 vchau@research.baycrest.org |
Vivian Chau
I am a Project Coordinator for ONDRI@Home, which is a platform within the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI). The ONDRI@Home initiative seeks to gather a patient's symptoms and health information in the context of communities and homes using wearable technology. Through ONDRI@Home, we hope to eventually be able to identify health issues earlier, monitor treatment compliance, and track disease and symptom progression. Presently, I am coordinating and working on deliverables for the Remote Monitoring of Neurodegenerative Diseases (ReMiNDD) study, a feasibility study for ONDRI@Home. |
Research Biostatistician
416-785-2500 x2557 [email protected] |
Kelly Sunderland
I am involved with the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative which is a longitudinal, multi-site, and multi-cohort observational study that aims to characterize biomarkers within and between five neurodegenerative diseases. Data are collected across numerous measurement platforms, allowing the opportunity to work in multidisciplinary teams and identify appropriate statistical techniques to efficiently extract relevant information from various different types of data. I completed my MSc in Biostatistics at the University of Toronto in 2015, after completing a BMath in Statistics at the University of Waterloo in 2014. |
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Shuai Liang
I work directly with scientists and professors across Canada to facilitate neuroscience research, primarily by developing and enhancing software infrastructure that archives and analyzes terabytes of data. My core responsibility is to ensure the operability of production data platform, pipelines and services, and support, develop, and maintain production applications, which includes continuous integration/deployment, code quality assurance, and software development. My work routinely involves addressing novel challenges under strict time constraints imposed by publications, conferences, and other academic and industrial schedules. For more information please click here. Past Work Experience: Present – 2017, Senior Application Developer, Rotman Research Insititue, Baycrest Hospital 2017 – 2015, Application Developer, Rotman Research Insititue, Baycrest Hospital 2014 – 2011, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Florida 2011 – 2008, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary |
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Mark Prati
I am a part of the Neuoinformatics department in the Strother lab. I obtained my undergrad in Physics at the University of Waterloo. I have over 20 years of software development and systems integration experience. I am currently involved in developing middle-ware services to support collaborative sharing of subjects neuroimaging and clinical data between Brain-CODE and external repositories such as LORIS. |
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Athena Theyers
I started in January 2018, where my projects include working on the Travelling Human Subject study, comparing intra- and inter-site differences in 12 different MR scanners within Ontario, and updating Spotfire dashboards to track quality assurance and quality control measures of MRI scans. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto in 2015 and completed my Master's in Medical Biophysics in 2017. My thesis work involved measuring cardiac-related pulsatility in fMRI brain scans, under the supervision of Dr. Bradley MacIntosh at Sunnybrook Research Institute. |
Research Assistant
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Raadhika Venkatesh
I am a Research Assistant in the Neuroinformatics & Biostatistics (NIBS) platform for the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI). I perform quality control screening to detect deviations from the required file structure and expected data patterns. In addition, I am responsible for conducting statistical analyses and generating visual data displays as requested by the various ONDRI platforms. I obtained my Undergraduate degree in 2018 from University of Toronto, with a major in Human Biology and double minors in Psychology and Statistics. Following my BSc, I obtained a post-graduate certificate in Clinical Research, after which I joined the Strother lab in 2019. |
Research Assistant
416-785-2500 x2557[email protected] |
Pirammiya Shanmugathas
I am a Research Assistant on the ONDRI project. I guide and assist data collection teams in preparing data to be shared, where I work on tabular and non-tabular datasets. I also perform basic statistical analyses and generate visual data displays as requested for outlier analysis, as well as maintain and update the interactive online dashboard. I obtained my Undergraduate degree in 2018 from University of Toronto Scarborough where I specialized in Neuroscience. In addition, I've worked in quite a few research labs and medical clinics and thoroughly enjoy getting exposure to patients as well as research, and hope to pursue a career in clinical research in the future. |
Research Assistant
416-785-2500 rdesouza@research.baycrest.org |
Roland De Souza
I am a Research Assistant in the Neuroinformatics and Biostatistics (NIBS) platform for the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI). My primary role is to conduct statistical analyses to detect deviations from expected data patterns and ensure data packages adhere to ONDRI conventions. Additionally, I assist platform data curators with data cleaning, curation, and creating visual displays to improve data quality. I received my Undergraduate degree in 2019 from the University of Toronto with a double major in Human Biology and Psychology. |
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Derek Beaton
I received a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Dartmouth. During both degrees and for some time after I worked at UMass Dartmouth for the SimCalc Project and then the Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in STEM education. After UMass Dartmouth, I went to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) for my PhD. I received a master's and PhD in cognition and neuroscience from UTD. I joined the Strother lab in August 2016 and became one of the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI)'s scholars. My work in the Strother lab and ONDRI project is focused on development, application, and distribution of multivariate statistical tools for complex data (e.g., multi-modality, heterogeneous data types) with an emphasis on genetic, brain, and behavioral data. |
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Pradeep Reddy Raamana
My current projects include the development of optimal and reproducible fMRI preprocessing workflows with prof. Stephen Strother. I am also interested in the development of machine learning techniques for medical image analysis. In particular, I worked on the development of statistical learning techniques for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease as well as differential diagnosis of various neurodegenerative diseases. During my Ph.D., some of my developments include novel imaging biomarkers, called ThickNet features, based on graph-theoretical network analysis of inter-regional covariation in cortical thickness, which show promise for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease. Another exciting area of research I am working on is the development of imaging-based biomarkers for the subclassification of MCI (classification of MCI subtypes), which can potentially lead to earlier screening of Alzheimer's disease. I have also worked on developing multi-class differential diagnosis techniques, that can pave way for minimized misdiagnosis. One such application I worked is on three-class differential diagnosis between Alzheimer's disease, Frontotemporal disease and healthy controls. Here is a link to my website: crossinvalidation.com, and my google scholar page: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=Enxh8xcAAAAJ&hl=en |
Co-Op Student
416-785-2500 x3477 kzhu@research.baycrest.org |
Lindy Zhu
Currently, I am a 3rd year student at the University of Toronto Scarborough, specializing in Mental Health Studies. During my student placement, I am the SPReD administer in the Stroke Patient Research and Recovery Database (SPReD) Team. SPReD is Brain-CODE’s neuroimaging repository. It is based on the XNAT platform, which is designed to import, archive, process and securely distribute imaging related study data. My primary job is to manage various Neuroinformatics databases through monitoring users' activities and Research Ethics Board, increasing the security of medical files, as well as providing proper training to SPReD users regarding how to use the system. |
Co-Op Student
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Muinat Baruwa
I am the current (May 2020- December 2020) Neuroimaging Database Assistant at the Strother Lab. I help manage the lab’s neuroimaging database named SPReD (Stroke Patient Research Recovery Database). My main duties involve assisting users with data uploads to SPReD, managing user training and new account creations, as well as other duties necessary to ensure SPReD operations run smoothly. I am in my 3rd year in the cognitive stream of the Specialist program in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto Scarborough. |
Application Developer
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Jedid Ahn
I am a part-time application developer in the Neuroinformatics & Biostatistics (NIBS) platform for the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI), where I develop and maintain full stack web applications to aid the curation and quality control of ONDRI data. Concurrently, I am a 4th year student at the University of Toronto studying Bioinformatics & Computational Biology and Computer Science. Previously, I worked as a Volunteer Research Assistant and Rotman Summer Student in the Strother Lab starting in 2018, where I developed the ONDRI Standards App to assess tabular and non-tabular data packages and determine whether they adhere to ONDRI standards and data conventions. |
Doctoral Student
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John Eusebio
I finished my undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario with a BA Hons in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. My thesis at the time focused on differentiating forms of attention in the numerical Stroop task using functional connectivity. I joined the Strother Lab back in 2015. My main project uses fMRI to investigate the mechanisms behind mind wandering during continuous task performance, and how these mechanisms differ between young and old. My outside project has me exploring the potential benefits of mindfulness meditation on sustained attention, and the specific causes of these benefits, using EEG and behavioural performance. |
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