Sonja Gray Campbell

Affiliation

MSc student
Chemical & Environmental Toxicology
Email: scamp024@uottawa.ca

Research interests

Methylmercury
Neurotoxicity
Selenium protection
Selenium nanoparticles
Cell culture

Bio

Throughout her life, Sonja has demonstrated many diverse interests. She grew up in farm-country Ontario and rural Nova Scotia, but has lived in three cities. She toiled through schoolwork in undergrad at Queen’s University, but spent her summers toiling under the sun tree-planting in Northern Ontario. And she spent a year and a half travelling world- and Canada-wide, but has finally settled into her Master’s studies at the University of Ottawa.

Her interest in environmental toxicology began from the first time she was introduced to it, mid-undergrad; she immediately signed up to be a guinea pig in the newly offered program. At UOttawa, She is continuing these studies, working in the Chan Lab on methylmercury neurotoxicity & the protective effects of selenium.

Research project

Further elucidation of the protective effects of selenium against methylmercury neurotoxicity in a primary cell culture model.