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Melissa Chee is an energetic neuroscientist and mentor serving as the Graduate Chair for the Neuroscience program at Carleton University. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Alberta and has completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School. Her expertise includes supervising undergraduate and graduate level students. She is deeply involved in research focusing on neurobiology and obesity, with specific attention to the neurocircuitry mechanisms and neuronal transmission associated with metabolic disease. Through her lab, she utilizes various methodologies such as circuit tracing techniques, electrophysiology, imaging, and behavioral tools to explore questions at cellular, systems, and whole organism levels. The Chee lab highlights the role of the hypothalamus in nutrition, exercise, mental health, and body weight control.
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