MC

Hai-Ying Mary Cheng

Professor
✅ Accepting Graduate Students

Canada Research Chair in Molecular Genetics of Biological Clocks

Education

  • B.Sc.(hons) in Biochemistry, University of Calgary
  • M.Sc., Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto (1999)
  • Ph.D., Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto (2003)

Research

My research interest is in Animal Biology; more specifically, neurobiology and physiology; circadian clock mechanisms in mammals; and genetic determinants of adult neurogenesis. My lab is currently focusing on two areas of research:

  1. Adult Neurogenesis

    • Our laboratory is interested in the effects of genetic ablation on various stages of SGZ neurogenesis, including cell proliferation, apoptosis, differentiation and neuronal maturation, and the fascinating mechanisms that underlie adult SGZ neurogenesis.

  2. Circadian Rhythms

    • The overall objective of our laboratory is to elucidate the cellular mechanisms that regulate biological timing in mammals, and, in turn, to understand how these cellular mechanisms manifest themselves at the “organism” scale such as animal behaviour, and play a role in diseases arising from their abnormal functioning.

Become a Lab Member

We are currently recruiting graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Please email a CV and contact details for three references directly to Dr. Cheng (haiying.cheng@utoronto.ca).

Serious graduate candidates should subsequently apply to the University of Toronto Department of Cell & Systems Biology (CSB) graduate program. Admission requirements can be found through the CSB page, here.

Recent Publications

For a complete list of publications, please visit Dr. Cheng's Google Scholar page.