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Neuroscience | Expertise in Microbiome and NGS Analysis | Award-Winning Science Communicator
Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing
Technical Writing,
Copywriting,
Newswriting
Research
Market Research,
Meta-Research,
Fact Checking,
Gap Analysis,
Gray Literature Search,
Systematic Literature Review
Consulting
Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI
Statistical Analysis,
Data Visualization,
Big Data Analytics,
Data Processing,
Data Insights
Work Experience
Summer Research Student, Fehlings Lab
Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital
June 2017 - August 2017 
Biomedical Engineering Capstone Design Student
University of Toronto
September 2016 - April 2017
Research Assistant and Thesis Student, Krause Lab
University of Toronto
May 2016 - April 2017
Laboratory Experience Developmental Assistant
University of Toronto
September 2016 - February 2017
Thesis Student
Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning
September 2015 - April 2016
Virtual Reality Endoscopy Course Volunteer Assistant, Grover Lab
St. Michael's Hospital
July 2015 - August 2015
Research Assistant, Vincent Lab
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
May 2014 - August 2014
Education
MSc (Anatomy & Neuroscience)
University College Cork
October 2017 - 2021
Honours Bachelor of Science, Neuroscience Specialist
University of Toronto
September 2013 - April 2017
Certifications
- Certification details not provided.
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Simon Spichak and Thomaz F.S. Bastiaanssen and Kirsten Berding and Klara Vlckova and Gerard Clarke and Timothy G. Dinan and John F. Cryan(2021). Mining microbes for mental health: Determining the role of microbial metabolic pathways in human brain health and disease . Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 125. p. 698--761. Elsevier {BV}
Minal Jaggar and Kieran Rea and Simon Spichak and Timothy G. Dinan and John F. Cryan(2020). You’ve got male: Sex and the microbiota-gut-brain axis across the lifespan . Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 56. p. 100815. Elsevier {BV}
John F. Cryan and Kenneth J. O{\textquotesingle}Riordan and Caitlin S. M. Cowan and Kiran V. Sandhu and Thomaz F. S. Bastiaanssen and Marcus Boehme and Martin G. Codagnone and Sofia Cussotto and Christine Fulling and Anna V. Golubeva and Katherine E. Guzzetta and Minal Jaggar and Caitriona M. Long-Smith and Joshua M. Lyte and Jason A. Martin and Alicia Molinero-Perez and Gerard Moloney and Emanuela Morelli and Enrique Morillas and Rory O{\textquotesingle}Connor and Joana S. Cruz-Pereira and Veronica L. Peterson and Kieran Rea and Nathaniel L. Ritz and Eoin Sherwin and Simon Spichak and Emily M. Teichman and Marcel van de Wouw and Ana Paula Ventura-Silva and Shauna E. Wallace-Fitzsimons and Niall Hyland and Gerard Clarke and Timothy G. Dinan(2019). The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis . Physiological Reviews. 99. (4). p. 1877--2013. American Physiological Society
Simon Spichak and Timothy G. Dinan and John F. Cryan(2019). Gut–neuroimmune interactions: the unexpected role of the immune system in brain development . The Biochemist. 41. (1). p. 36--41. Portland Press Ltd.
(2019). Programming Bugs: Microbiota and the Developmental Origins of Brain Health and Disease . Biological Psychiatry.
Simon Spichak and Katherine E. Guzzetta and Olivia F. O'Leary and Gerard Clarke and Timothy G. Dinan and John F. Cryan(2018). Without a bug’s life: Germ-free rodents to interrogate microbiota-gut-neuroimmune interactions . Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models. 28. p. 79--93. Elsevier {BV}
Oyefiade, Adeoye A. and Ameis, Stephanie and Lerch, Jason P. and Rockel, Conrad and Szulc, Kamila U. and Scantlebury, Nadia and Decker, Alexandra and Jefferson, Jaleel and Spichak, Simon and Mabbott, Donald J. Development of short-range white matter in healthy children and adolescents . Human Brain Mapping. p. n/a--n/a.
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