Director, Neurolipidomics Laboratory and India Taylor Lipidomics Research Platform
Dr. Steffany A. L. Bennett, Ph.D., Professor, University Research Chair in Neurolipidomics
Dr Bennett is a lipid biochemist and systems neurobiologist working to identify sex-, age-, and diet-specific changes in lipid metabolism that place us at risk or render us resilient to neurodegenerative disease. To do so, her team has developed new high performance liquid chromatography, electrospray ionization, differential mobility spectrometry, tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-DMS-MS/MS) methods and new bioinformatic solutions for lipid identification and pathway assessment using collision-induced dissociation (CID) capable of discriminating between subclasses of lipid stereoisomers that impact on dementia. She is a Full Professor and University Research Chair in Neurolipidomics at the University of Ottawa. She is also the Director of the India Taylor Research Platform, Associate Director of the Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation, Co-Director of the CIHR Vascular Dementia Training Program (VAST), and the uOttawa co-site lead for the CIHR Training Program The Canadian Bioinformatics Hub. Her area of expertise in in the use of LC-ESI-MS/MS and machine learning as applied to neurolipidomics and to evidence-based personalized precision medicine. Research in the Neurolipidomics lab (NRL) focuses on how lipid metabolism dictates vulnerability and resilience to genetic risk of neurodegenerative disease.
