GPN Student Defenses

Congratulations, students!

Dhinakaran Maheswaran Chinappen, PhD, 2024

Congratulations to Dhinakaran!

“Measuring, Modeling and Manipulating the Electrographic Markers of Disease in Epilepsy”

 

Rifqi Affan, PhD, 2024

Congratulations to Rifqi!

“Neural mechanisms of planning”

 

Rebecca Suthard, PhD, 2024

Congratulations to Rebecca!

“Neuron-Astrocyte Calcium Dynamics in Fear Learning and Memory”

 

Matt Dunne, PhD, 2024

Congratulations to Matt!

“Exploring Egocentric Boundary Activity and Population Receptive Field Mapping with Human fMRI in a Virtual Open Field Foraging Paradigm”

 

Isaac Falconer, PhD, 2024

Congratulations to Isaac!

“Dynamic Functional Network Connectivity and Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Aphasia”

 

Scott Knudstrup, PhD, 2023

Congratulations to Scott!

“Sequence Learning and Experience-Driven Modifications Create Sparse Predictive Representations of Visual Information in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex”

 

Stamati Liapis, PhD, 2023

Congratulations to Stamati!

“The geometry of neural representational spaces and the trade-off between generalization and separation”

 

Luis Ramirez, PhD, 2023

Congratulations to Luis!

“How do attention and emotional arousal alter visual processing?”

 

Kaitlyn Dorst, PhD, 2023

Congratulations to Kaitlyn! 

“Hippocampal Engrams Generate Flexible Behavioral Responses and Brain-wide Network States”

 

Allison Tipton, PhD, 2023

Congratulations to Allison!

Open Discovery Science to Interrogate the Molecular Basis of Neurological Disease

 

Michael Rosario, PhD, 2023

Congratulations to Michael!

“Modulators of the Medial Temporal Hippocampal System: Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Psychosocial Stress in the Context of the Built and Social Environment”

 

Emily Schlafly, PhD, 2023

Congratulations to Emily!

Spatiotemporal patterns in microelectrode arrays during human seizures

 

Carstensen, PhD, 2023

Congratulations to Lucas!

Neural Representations of Environmental Features and 3-D Reconstruction of Animal Pose

 

Catherine Mikkelsen, PhD, 2022

Congratulations to Catherine!

Stimulus Coding Over Time in the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex

 

Monika Shpokayte, PhD, 2022

Congratulations to Monika!

The Role of Ventral Hippocampal Engrams in Healthy and Disease States

 

Margaret Minnig, PhD, 2022

Congratulations to Margaret!

The Role of Corticostriatal Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide (PACAP) in Excessive Alcohol Drinking

 

Tom Morin, PhD, 2022

Congratulations to Tom!

Dynamic Brain Network Reconfiguration Supports Abstract Reasoning and Rule Learning

 

Byron Price, PhD, 2022

Congratulations to Byron!

Unsupervised Space-Time Learning In Mouse Primary Visual Cortex

 

Jenny Klein, PhD, 2022

Congratulations to Jenny!

“Olig2 Neural Progenitor Cell Development and Fate in Down Syndrome

 

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Gregory Wirak, PhD, 2022

Congratulations to Greg!

“Nervous System Dysfunction in Aging and Exposure to Volatile Anesthetics: In Vivo Multi-neuronal Imaging in C. Elegans

 

Shen Ning, PhD, 2022

Congratulations to Shen!

“Developing Magnetic Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Delivery in Alzheimer’s Disease

 

Wei Zhong Goh, PhD, 2022

Congratulations to Wei Zhong!

“Remembering the Past to Predict the Future: A Scale-invariant Timeline for Memory and Anticipation

 

Madhura Baxi, PhD, 2022

Congratulations to Madhura!

“MRI for Gray Matter: Statistical Modelling for In-Vivo Application and Histological Validation

 

 

Kristyn Borrelli, PhD, 2022

Congratulations to Kristyn!

“Behavioral and Biological Adaptations Underlying Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome”

 

 

Lisa Kretsge, PhD, 2022

Congratulations to Lisa!

“Distinct VIP interneurons in the cingulate cortex encode anxiogenic and social stimuli”

 

 

Nathanael Cruzado, PhD, 2021

Congratulations to Nathanael!

“Temporal Signals In The Brain During Visual Perception”

 

Hana Yeh, PhD, 2021

Congratulations to Hana!

“Investigating The Role Of Microglia In Neural Development And Synaptic Maintenance”

 

Keri Omuro, PhD, 2021

Congratulations to Keri!

“Identification Of Novel Apolipoprotein E Receptor 2 Splice Variants And Their Role In Synaptic Transmission”

 

Janis Intoy, PhD, 2021

Congratulations to Janis!

“The Role of Eye Movement in High-Acuity Monocular and Binocular Vision”

 

Samuel Levy, PhD, 2021

Congratulations to Sam!

“Dynamics among Overlapping Memory Representations in the Hippocampus at Long Timescale”

 

Samantha Shelton, PhD, 2021

Congratulations to Samantha!

 “Effects of Zika Virus Infection on Neural Precursor Cell Types and Microcephaly in a Murine Model”

 

Louis Vinke, PhD, 2021

Congratulations to Louis!

“Understanding the Potentiation and Malleability of Population Activity in Response to Absolute and Relative Stimulus Dimensions within the Human Visual Cortex”

 

Ying Jiang, PhD, 2021

Congratulations to Ying!

“High Precision Optoacoustic Neural Modulation”

 

Patricia Rein Shaw, PhD, 2021

Congratulations to Trish!

“Identifying Phenotypic Change Across Time in Mouse Models of Down Syndrome”

 

Julia Chartove, PhD, 2020

Congratulations to Julia!

“Delta/Theta-Rhythmically Interleaved Gamma and Beta Oscillations in Striatum: Modeling and Data Analysis”

 

Ashley Comer, PhD, 2020

Congratulations to Ashley!

“Role of the Schizophrenia-Linked Gene Complement Component 4 in Prefrontal Cortex Function in Mice”

 

Terri Scott, PhD, 2020

Congratulations to Terri!

“Neural Bases of Phonological Working Memory”

 

Adam Vogel, PhD, 2020

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“A TOOL FOR THE IN VIVO GATING OF GENE EXPRESSION IN NEURONS USING THE CO-OCCURRENCE OF NEURAL ACTIVITY AND LIGHT”

 

Dante Smith, PhD, 2020

Congratulations to Dante!

“The Roles of Auditory and Somatosensory Feedback in Vocal Motor Control”

 

Sophie Schwartz, PhD, 2020

Congratulations to Sophie!

“Characterization of Central Auditory Processing in Minimally and Low Verbal Adolescents Autism”

 

Mary Kate Joyce, PhD, 2020

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“The Cortical Connections of Area 25 and Its Interactions with Areas Involved in Emotion and Cognition”

 

Ellen Witkowski, PhD, 2019

Congratulations to Ellen! 

“Rapid Changes in Neural Function and Cerebral Blood Flow After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury” 

 

Catherine Moore, PhD, 2019

Congratulations to Cassie! 

“The Neurobiological Bases of Compulsive Eating” 

 

Nathaniel Kinsky, PhD, 2019

Congratulations to Nat! 

“Long-Term Stability of the Hippocampal Neural Code as a Substrate for Episodic Memory”  

 

John Bladon, PhD, 2019

Congratulations to Jay! 

“The Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex Map Events Across Space and Time”  

 

Sean Tobyne, PhD, 2019

Congratulations to Sean! 

“Network Organization of Sensory-Biased and Multi-Sensory Working Memory and Attention in Human Cortex with fMRI”

 

Michael Romano, PhD, 2019

Congratulations to Mike! 

“Population Analysis of the Striatum During Voluntary Movement”

 

Kathryn Hixson, PhD,, 2019

Congratulations to Kathryn! 

“Mapping the transcriptome Of Neuronal Jak/Stat Signaling In Response To Status Epilepticus”

 

Iris Trutzer, PhD, 2019

Congratulations to Iris!

“Postnatal Development of Excitatory and Inhibitory Prefrontal Cortical Circuits and Their Disruption in Autism”

 

Marek Kowalski, PhD, 2019

Congratulations to Marek!

“Large-Scale Neural Recordings and Biophysical Models for Inferring Network Mechanisms of Ketamine Anesthesia”

 

William Mau, PhD, 2019

Congratulations to Will!

“Neural Patterns of Hippocampus and Amygdala Supporting Memory Over Long Timespans”

 

Austin Soplata, 2019, PhD

Congratulations to Austin!

“A Thalamocortical Theory of Propofol Phase-Amplitude Coupling

 

Scott Kuzdeba, 2019, PhD

Congratulations to Scott!

“Characteristic Time Courses of Electrocorticographic Signals During Speech