Graduate Student

Yeji is a master's student in the Human Genetics program at McGill, co-supervised by Dr. Heidi M. McBride and Dr. Nancy Braverman. She got her B.Sc. in Physiology at McGill as well, where she did her undergraduate research on ependymal cells and their involvement in neuroinflammation under the supervision of Dr. Jo Anne Stratton at the Montréal Neurological Institute. At the Stratton lab, she also contributed to writing a scoping review on ependymal cells. Motivated by her interest in pediatric health, Yeji has now shifted gears to studying a rare genetic disorder caused by mild mutations in PEX16, in which patients exhibit an atypical Zellweger Spectrum Disorder profile. She is currently at the McBride lab to investigate the cellular mechanisms behind this atypical phenotype.

Contact: yeji.song@mail.mcgill.ca