Gareth received his PhD in neuroscience from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in 2023 where he studied sex differences and hormone affects in astrocytes during neurodevelopment. He joined the Dougherty lab joint with the Papouin Lab in the Department of Neuroscience as a postdoc in December 2023. Gareth is broadly interested in sex differences in neurodevelopment. He is currently studying how astrocyte calcium signaling is related to protein translation and if there are sex and developmental effects of neuromodulators on astrocyte physiology.
When not in the lab, Gareth can be seen zipping around the city on his bicycle, enjoying a picnic in the park, and searching for the latest and greatest hot dog.