B.Sc., in Neuroscience, University of Alberta
PhD Student in Neuroscience
shrybouski@ualberta.ca
I am a fourth-year student in the Neuroscience graduate program at the University of Alberta, supervised by Dr. Nikolai Malykhin. For as long as I can remember, I always had a curious mind for the mysteries of nature. My ultimate decision to pursue a scientific career came after receiving a summer award to work in a biochemistry laboratory on genetic engineering. Through experimentation and exploration, I arrived at my current position as a PhD student in neuroimaging looking at structural and functional biomarkers of neurological and cognitive aging. Because of my varied technical background, I am familiar with many biomedical techniques that are used outside my own area of expertise. I am also investigating functional role of the amygdala subnuclei in emotional processing. We are the first group in Canada with sufficient equipment and expertise to attempt such a feat, where we combine cutting-edge computational and technical tools with anatomical precision and accuracy that is extremely rare in present-day functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research.