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Shernaz Bamji

Professor
Co-Director, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
Academic Appointment
Professor
Research Focus
Brain
Contact Info
shernaz.bamji@ubc.ca
604-822-4746
ShernazBamji
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Biography

Dr. Shernaz Bamji is associate director of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health and a professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She is also the current president of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience.

Dr. Bamji has a long-standing interest in understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neural connectivity and synaptic plasticity. Her work has provided valuable information about fundamental mechanisms underlying learning and memory, as well as how these processes are perturbed in diseased states.

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Publications

  • Cell reports -

    The X-Linked Intellectual Disability Gene Zdhhc9 Is Essential for Dendrite Outgrowth and Inhibitory Synapse Formation.

    Shimell JJ, Shah BS, Cain SM, Thouta S, Kuhlmann N, Tatarnikov I, Jovellar DB, Brigidi GS, Kass J, Milnerwood AJ, Snutch TP, Bamji SX
  • Nature neuroscience -

    Cadherins mediate cocaine-induced synaptic plasticity and behavioral conditioning.

    Mills F, Globa AK, Liu S, Cowan CM, Mobasser M, Phillips AG, Borgland SL, Bamji SX
  • Nature communications -

    Activity-regulated trafficking of the palmitoyl-acyl transferase DHHC5.

    Brigidi GS, Santyr B, Shimell J, Jovellar B, Bamji SX
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America -

    Cognitive flexibility and long-term depression (LTD) are impaired following β-catenin stabilization in vivo.

    Mills F, Bartlett TE, Dissing-Olesen L, Wisniewska MB, Kuznicki J, Macvicar BA, Wang YT, Bamji SX
  • Nature neuroscience -

    Palmitoylation of δ-catenin by DHHC5 mediates activity-induced synapse plasticity.

    Brigidi GS, Sun Y, Beccano-Kelly D, Pitman K, Mobasser M, Borgland SL, Milnerwood AJ, Bamji SX
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