Melissa Chee
- Health Sciences Building, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
Dr. Melissa Chee earned her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Alberta and completed postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School. Her current interests are lab plants, snacks, and neuron art.
Eligible to supervise at the undergraduate and graduate level. Volunteers. Please visit the Chee lab for available positions. Honour’s thesis students. Interviews will be announced and held in the Winter term only. Please visit the Chee lab website for for dates.
“We invite exceptional and highly-motivated students of every race, ethnicity, gender identity, and/or sexual orientation to share our passion for neuroscience.”
Chee Lab family
Courses Taught:
- NEUR 2001: Introduction to Research Methods in Neuroscience
- NEUR 2004: Fundamentals of Scientific Writing in Neuroscience
Scholarly Work & Research Interests:
The Chee lab investigates the neurobiology of obesity. The brain is a key organ in obesity, and their research examines the internal and external factors that influence the brain in obesity.
- Internal factors – the role of the brain defining the neural circuits that controls feeding and energy expenditures
- External factors – how diet can alter these neural circuits
Selected Publications:
List of Chee lab publications can be viewed here