Affiliation: The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine

Daria Taskina is a research associate in Dr. Hazrati’s laboratory at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. She is currently investigating neuroinflammatory and chronic behavioral outcomes of brain trauma. In her recent graduate research with Dr. Georg R. Zoidl at York University, Daria examined the role of Pannexin1 channels in the onset and propagation of seizures in a zebrafish model. Her areas of expertise include molecular and behavioral assessment of neurological disorders in animal models, in-vivo electrophysiology, and implementing computational analyses such as machine learning techniques into her research.