Sheena Josselyn PhD

Sheena Josselyn is a Senior Scientist in the Neuroscience and Mental Health department at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and an Associate Professor in the department of Psychology and Physiology and the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto in Canada. She is a Canada Research Chair in Molecular and Cellular Cognition and an EJLB Scholar. Her undergraduate degrees and a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology were granted by Queen’s University in Canada.
Sheena received a PhD in Neuroscience/Psychology from the University of Toronto and conducted post-doctoral work with Mike Davis (Yale University) and Alcino Silva (UCLA). Her program of research is dedicated to understanding the neural basis of cognitive function and dysfunction. To unravel the molecular, cellular and circuit processes that underlie learning and memory, her lab uses a multidisciplinary approach that focuses on mouse models and attempts to translate these basic findings into humans.