Welcome to the Josselyn Frankland Lab
Neurobiology Laboratory at the Hospital for Sick Children

Research

Learning and Memory

Memory Allocation

How do neurons become allocated to a memory trace and how can we manipulate their activity to understand memory?

Remote Memory

How are remote memories organized in the cortex, and what the molecular and cellular events that underlie their consolidation?

Neurogenesis and Forgetting

What is the contribution of new neurons to hippocampal memory function. In particular we are interested in how new neurons regulate clearance of memories from the hippocampus (or forgetting).

Publications

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de Snoo, Mitchell L et al. (2023) Exercise accelerates place cell representational drift. Curr Biol, 33, 3, R96-R97.

Roland, Alison V et al. (2023) Alcohol dependence modifies brain networks activated during withdrawal and reaccess: a c-fos-based analysis in mice. Biol Psychiatry.

Tran, Lina M et al. (2022) Adult neurogenesis acts as a neural regularizer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 119, 45, e2206704119.

Park, Sungmo et al. (2022) Opto-extinction of a Threat Memory in Mice. Brain Res Bull.

Park, Albert et al. (2022) Formation and fate of an engram in the lateral amygdala supporting a rewarding memory in mice. Neuropsychopharmacology.


All Publications

Lab Members

Primary Investigators

Sheena Josselyn

PI

Paul Frankland

PI

Current Lab Members

Adam Ramsaran

PhD Candidate

Frankland
Newark, Delaware

    Interests:
  •  Womp it Up (Podcast)
  •  Veep
  •  HRC

Alessandro Luchetti

Post-Doc

Josselyn
Milan, Italy

Alex Jacob

PhD Candidate

Josselyn
Edmonton, AB

Ali Golbabaei

PhD Student

Frankland

Andrew Mocle

PhD Candidate

Josselyn
Toronto, ON

    Interests:
  •  Squash
  •  Melodica
  •  Too Much Tuna

Ankit Awasthi

Post-Doc

Frankland
Visakhapatnam, India

    Interests:
  •  Running
  •  Classic rock
  •  Cooking indian food
  •  Documentaries/Movies/TV series

Annelies Hoorn

PhD Student

Josselyn
The Netherlands

    Interests:
  •  :bee:
  •  Philosophy

Asim Rashid

Research Associate

Josselyn
Kingston, ON

Bozhi Wu

PhD Student

Josselyn
Shanghai, China

    Interests:
  •  Reading
  •  Photography
  •  Tennis
  •  Saxophone

Cesar Coelho

Post-Doc

Frankland
Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

    Interests:
  •  Sao Jose dos Campos
  •   Brazil
  •  Dancing
  •  :bike:
  •  Programming

Cory McKenzie

PhD Student

Frankland
Peace River, AB

    Interests:
  •  Cooking
  •  Bouldering
  •  Reading

Cris Yuan

PhD Student

Josselyn
Where friends and family are

    Interests:
  •  Reading
  •  FOOD (eating/cooking/baking/etc)
  •  :paw_prints:
  •  :cat2:

Daisy Lin

Lab Technician
Beijing, China

Emily Kramer

PhD Candidate

Josselyn
Hampton, ON

Jagroop Dhaliwal

Post-Doc

Frankland
New Delhi, India; Ottawa, ON

    Interests:
  •  Reading
  •  Food (desserts)
  •  Watching hockey
  •  Movies

Jenn Kao

MD/PhD

Frankland
Richmond Hill, ON

    Interests:
  •  Hockey (the leafs!)
  •  Night running
  •  Painting

Jiaoyang Wo

PhD Student

Frankland
Beijing, China

    Interests:
  •  Painting
  •  Reading
  •  Travelling
  •  Dancing

Jung Hoon Jung

Post-Doc

Josselyn
Daegu, South Korea

    Interests:
  •  Movies
  •  Soccer
  •  Family

Marie-Theres Wittmann

Post-Doc

Frankland
Erlangen, Germany

    Interests:
  •  Baking
  •  Photography
  •  Reading

Matteo Saderi

PhD Student

Frankland
Sardinia, Italy

    Interests:
  •  Consciousness
  •  Volcanoes
  •  Astronomy

Meijia Li

PhD Student

Josselyn
Chengdu, China

    Interests:
  •  Baking
  •  Cooking
  •  Travelling
  •  Olfactory Art

Mika Yamamoto

Lab Technician
Osaka, Japan

Mitch de Snoo

MD/PhD

Frankland
Oshawa, ON

    Interests:
  •  Lacrosse
  •  Camping
  •  Food

Naomi Niederhoffer

PhD Student

Josselyn
Montreal, QC

    Interests:
  •  Football

Rida Ansari

PhD Candidate

Frankland
Karachi, Pakistan

    Interests:
  •  :tropical_fish:

Sangyoon Ko

PhD Candidate

Frankland
Jeju, Korea

    Interests:
  •  Soccer
  •  Baseball
  •  Judo
  •  Music

Sungmo Park

Post-Doc

Josselyn
Seoul, Korea

    Interests:
  •  Photography
  •  Movie maker
  •  my kids

Sylvie Lesuis

Post-Doc

Josselyn
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Toni DeCristofaro

Lab Manager
Toronto, ON

Wei (William) He

Lab Technician
Changchun, China

Xiaoyu Chen

PhD Student

Frankland
Chengdu, China

    Interests:
  •  Painting
  •  Photography
  •  Cooking
  •  Japanese Mahjong

Ying Wang

PhD Candidate

Josselyn
Nanjing, China

    Interests:
  •  basketball
  •  music
  •  food

Yunlong Liu

Post-Doc

Frankland
Beijing, China

    Interests:
  •  Neurogenesis
  •  Forgetting

Where are they now?

Check out this map of former Jossenlyn/Frankland lab members who have started their own labs around the world


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25 September 2018

Welcome to the new JF Lab website. It’s still undergoing some changes so feel free to let us know if you see any problems via our GitHub page. There, you can also see how this site was made.