ACB Seminar Series: Dr. Katrina Choe

Please join us for an ACB Seminar featuring guest speaker Dr. Katrina Choe, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University

Seminar Details
Date: Friday, December 1st, 2023 
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm  
Location: MSB 282
Speaker: Dr. Katrina Choe, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University
Talk Title: " Oxytocin, Social Behaviour, and Stress”

Bio: Dr. Katrina Choe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University and a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Neurobiology of Social Behaviour. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree at the University of Toronto, she pursued her doctoral degree at McGill University under the mentorship of Charles Bourque investigating the hydration state-dependent control of vasopressin neuronal excitability. Then she moved to UCLA for a short postdoctoral training at Thomas Otis laboratory investigating cerebellar circuits and their relationship to motor learning, and then at Daniel Geschwind laboratory also at UCLA examining the role of the central oxytocin system on social deficits in the Cntnap2 knockout mouse model of ASD. In her newly established laboratory at McMaster University, she applies a multi-level, integrative research strategy to link how gene mutations associated with ASD disrupt the function of the oxytocin system causing social behaviour impairments.