Postdoctoral fellow

Erika is a postdoctoral researcher in the labs of Dr. Tuan Trang and Dr. Gerald Zamponi at the University of Calgary. She completed her doctoral work at the University of Toronto in the lab of Dr. Michael Salter, using electrophysiology and two-photon calcium imaging to study how calcium is regulated in spinal cord lamina I neurons. Upon completion of her PhD, Dr. Harding spent a year in the lab of Dr. Robert Bonin at the University of Toronto, completing a postdoctoral fellowship centered on developing novel techniques for optogenetic interrogation of the spinal cord. Her postdoctoral work now focuses on combining all these techniques to define mechanisms and pathways of opioid and cannabinoid analgesia. In her free time, Erika is an avid hiker and collector of old school science fiction.