Mandy Yee is a summer student in Smart & Biggar’s Ottawa office. She is currently completing her Juris Doctor at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Lincoln Alexander School of Law.
Mandy received a fellowship award from the National General Counsel Network in partnership with Sienna Senior Living Inc in her first year of law school. She also facilitated a collaboration between her law school and the Pan-Canadian French Common Law Program, to establish the first French course and French mooting opportunity in a Toronto-based law school.
Prior to law school, Mandy earned a Master of Science and an Honours Bachelor of Science with High Distinction from the University of Toronto. During her undergraduate studies, she was included on the Dean’s List Scholar every year and was the recipient of numerous scholarships for academic achievement.
During her graduate studies, Mandy published several research articles. She earned the Institute of Medical Science Entrance Award based on academic excellence and received both the Vision Science Research Program Award and a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Scholarship for her research proposals. As part of the latter scholarship, Mandy gained valuable experience as an intern in a collaborative training program led by the University of Toronto, McMaster University, and York University; she completed workshops related to cell manufacturing and biomaterials, learning a breadth of technical research skills.
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Publications
- Administration of brain‐derived neurotrophic factor in the ventral tegmental area produces a switch from a nicotine-non-dependent D1R‐mediated motivational state to a nicotine-dependent-like D2R‐mediated motivational state, The European Journal of Neuroscience, January 10, 2022
- Segregation of caffeine reward and aversion in the rat nucleus accumbens shell versus core, The European Journal of Neuroscience, March 24, 2020
- Connexin-36-expressing gap junctions in VTA GABA neurons sustain opiate dependence, bioRxiv, December 21, 2020