Liam Clancy
PhD Rotation Student
Liam was born in Burlington, Vermont, just a couple hours from Montreal in the United States. He obtained a B.Sc. in Neuroscience and an M.Sc. in Pharmacology before starting his PhD in the Integrative Program of Neuroscience at McGill University. As an undergraduate, he studied cellular markers of neurodegeneration in a novel invertebrate system, the Central American Wandering spider. His research as a master’s student focused on the effect of a Tau missense mutation, E342V, on microtubule dynamics. Liam joined the Bowie lab as a rotation student in 2025 and is researching GRIN-1 related neurodevelopmental disorders that are associated with the NMDA receptor subunit GluN1. He aims to characterize missense mutations in the M2 pore loop region of the GluN1 subunit to better understand how calcium permeability and signaling is disrupted in disease.