Melody Salehzadeh
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Research areaCell and Developmental Biology, Comparative Physiology
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History
PhD, Zoology Sep 2018 - Present
Friedman Scholar
University of British Columbia
Advisor: Dr. Kiran K. Soma
Concentration: Local regulation of glucocorticoids in the immune and neural systems/Immunologic endocrinologyBSc, Combined Major in Science Sep 2013 - Jan 2018
University of British Columbia
Concentration: Chemistry, Life Sciences, Statistics
Melody completed her B.Sc. in Combined Major in Science, combining Life Sciences, Chemistry and Statistics at UBC in 2017, working in the lab of Prof. Soma. As an undergraduate, Melody received the Quinn Research Assistantship and the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. She also received undergraduate travel awards to present her data at the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology conference.
Melody’s thesis is focused on local steroid production in the immune and neural systems. Melody is particularly interested in investigating the effects of early-life stress on the regulation of corticosterone (i.e., "stress hormone") in the thymus and brain. Melody earned an NSERC CGS-M fellowship and an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship to conduct this novel research.