Research

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My research focuses on multisensory integration in people with Parkinson's Disease. I study how auditory and visual stimuli are integrated and affect eye movements (saccades and antisaccades).

Publications

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Journal publications:

• Chalissery, J., Wilson, I., Rankin, C., Liang, J. (2023). Rearing C. elegans on parafilm-wrapped NGM plates impacts habituation behaviour. MicroPublication Biology, 2023.

Poster Publications:

• Liang, J., Chalissery, J., Tsoi, K., Rankin, C. (2022). Phenomic Characterization of Orthologs of Parkinson's Disease-Associated Genes in C. elegans. 2022 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Society for Neuroscience 2022 (Program No. 447.22.)

CV

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Education:

• B.Sc. in Behavioural Neuroscience from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (May 2023)

Selected awards:

• 09/2023-08/2024 - Canadian Graduate Scholarship - Master's, UBC Vancouver, Canada
• 09/2023-08/2024 - UBC BPOC Graduate Excellence Award, UBC Vancouver, Canada
• 06/2023-08/2023 - UBC Faculty of Medicine Student Summer Research Program (Declined), UBC Vancouver, Canada
• 05/2023-08/2023 - Undergraduate Research Award, NSERC, UBC Vancouver, Canada
• 05/2022-08/2022 - Quinn Research Assistantship, UBC Dept. Psychology, UBC Vancouver, Canada

Research experience:

• Since 05/2023 - MSc student in the UBC Oculomotor Lab (Prof. Dr. Miriam Spering), Dept. Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• 05/2021-04/2023 - Research assistant in the UBC Rankin Lab (Prof. Dr. Catherine Rankin), Dept. Psychology, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.
• 06/2018-08/2019 - Research assistant in the SFU Gries Lab (Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gries), Dept. Biological Sciences, SFU, Burnaby, Canada