Timothy Bredy PhD

Dr. Richard Brown at Dalhousie University. In 1999, I moved to Montreal to work with Dr. Michael Meaney and, in 2004, earned a Ph.D. in Neurological Sciences from McGill University. For my thesis, I examined gene-environment interactions and the influence of early life experience on cognitive development. From 2005 through 2009, I was awarded FRSQ, NSERC and CIHR research fellowships to pursue postdoctoral training at the University of California (Los Angeles). I worked with two very talented researchers at UCLA: Dr. Mark Barad, a psychiatrist with significant expertise in fear-related anxiety disorders and their treatment, and Dr. Yi Sun, a leader in the emerging field of epigenetics and stem cell biology. During my time at UCLA, I initiated collaboration for cross-disciplinary studies in epigenetics with Dr. Michael Kobor at the University of British Columbia, and studies in drug addiction with Dr. Tod Kippin at UCSB. In August 2009, I established the Psychiatric Epigenomics Laboratory at QBI.