Undergrads
Wu Tsai Undergraduate Fellows
Vanessa Anaya
Advisor: Jutta Joormann
Emotion regulation strategy use, dynamic, and flexibility in depression and anxiety: an ecological momentary assessment
Rory Ashmeade
Advisor: Hal Blumenfeld
Investigating the role of the anterior insula in auditory processing during spike wave discharge
David Backer Peral
Advisor: Shreya Saxena
Modeling cooperative dynamics in rats through multiagent reinforcement learning
Wyatt Fishman
Advisor: Robb Rutledge
The effects of both low-level and high-level visual features on affective dynamics during movie watching
Alfredo Frontera
Advisor: Jessica Cardin
Machine Learning Methods For Autism Mice Model
Evelyn Jiang
Advisor: John Demb
Molecular mechanisms of synaptic vesicle recycling in retinal interneurons
Darren Kao
Advisor: Tom McCoy
A study of whether neural networks capture the use-mention distinction
Miray Laktineh
Advisor: Elizabeth Goldfarb
Dynamic neural and affective responses to stress and memory integration
Rohan Lokanadham
Advisor: Alfred Kaye
Evaluating physiological changes in animal fear of heights with stress manipulation
Sabrina Mo
Advisor: Heather Snell
Imaging CACNA1A mutations in calcium channels: linking subunit variations to motor and cognitive deficits in EA2 and FHM1
Brandon Quach
Advisor: Trevor Sorrells
Predicting cell type-specific enhancer accessibility using deep learning in mosquito neuronal cells
Laura Reyes Umaña
Advisor: Julia Leonard
The effect of environmental stakes on children’s optimistic expectations
Sarah Cook
Advisor: Michael Higley
Investigating the synaptic architecture of contralateral projections in barrel cortex
Austin Curtis
Advisor: Hongying Shen
Investigating the role of human SLC25A39 through structure-function analysis of yeast Mtm1
Micah Gold
Advisor: Abhishek Bhattacharjee
Applying temporal neural networks in online spike sorting algorithms for brain-computer interfaces
Odessa Goldberg
Advisor: Wendy Berry Mendes
Examining tVNS as a stress-reduction intervention
Youssef Ibrahim
Advisor: Stephen Strittmatter
Exploring the role of Lrp8 and ApoE interaction in axonal regeneration after spinal cord injury
Alexandra Martinez-Garcia
Advisor: Dylan Gee
Collection and quality assurance analysis of MRI data alongside literature review concerning the endocannabinoid system’s role in the brain’s development
Jessica Na
Advisor: Marina Picciotto
Investigating the role of the PDE4-PKA pathway in stress-induced ethanol drinking
Noor Nouaili
Advisor: Jane Taylor
Uncovering resilience to early life stress in a rat model of pro-sociality
Witt Phillips
Advisor: Ilker Yildirim
Decoding symbolic mechanisms of neural computation via programmable recurrent neural networks
Hunter Robbins
Advisor: Arielle Baskin-Sommers
Impaired ambiguity aversion during cost-benefit decisions in antisocial citizens
Nathan Shan
Advisor: Damon Clark
Investigating the role of mitochondria in synaptic function of C. elegans
Olivia White Storti
Advisor: Jessica Cardin
Convergent phenotype of vision loss for different mouse models of autism spectrum disorder
Tran Doan
Advisor: Brian Scassellati
Human-robot hide-and-seek
Sarah Feng
Advisor: Elizabeth Goldfarb
Trauma resilience and multiple memory systems
Ernestine Giahyue
Advisor: Marina Picciotto
Labeling the ensemble of neurons activated during stress and reward encoding using ArcTRAP
Eliana Peyton
Advisor: Elizabeth Jonas
Molecular determinants of behavior patterns in an autism/BPD model rodent
Sean Piñón
Advisor: Jaime Grutzendler
Investigating glial-vascular transport mechanisms across the blood-brain barrier
Aranyo Ray
Advisor: Melissa Ferguson
Social learning of international students in the United States
Ariana Reichler
Advisor: Dylan Gee
Affective schema learning and early experiences
Nathalia Reis
Advisor: Jutta Joormann
Functional brain networks underlying cognitive inflexibility
Ben Scheve
Advisor: Arielle Baskin-Sommers
Environmental risk and protective factors for youth suicidality
Isabel Shi
Advisor: Hal Blumenfeld
Study of impaired consciousness in a mouse model of focal temporal lobe seizures
Serina Wang
Advisor: Ilker Yildirim
Reverse-engineering the brain: modeling neural dynamics of primate predator pursuit with novel recurrent neural network model
Elizabeth Wu
Advisor: Damon Clark
Dissecting visual distance estimation in Drosophila
Callie Benson-Williams
Advisor: Arielle Baskin-Sommers
The role of multicontextual threat on emotional and cognitive processing
Doris Chen
Advisor: Albert Powers
Resting state of executive control networks (DLPFC) predict development of control of hallucinations
Evan Gerritz
Advisor: Steven Zucker
The role of color in the perception of translucent surfaces
Dawood Ghauri
Advisor: Liang Liang
Neuron identification using convolutional neural networks for in-vivo two-photon calcium imagery from mice
Brianny Gonzalez
Advisor: Arielle Baskin-Sommers
The effects of disruptive behavior disorders and family environment and neighborhood environment on behavioral and neural indicators of emotional working memory
Gabriela Hernandez-Busot
Advisor: Albert Powers
Measuring brain-derived neurotrophic factor in serum as a biomarker of cognition in patients with hallucinations and clinical high risk for psychosis
Elisa Howard
Advisor: Stephen Strittmatter
Imaging dynamics of the actin-spectrin cytoskeleton of regenerating axons
Erick Lopez
Advisor: Hal Blumenfeld
Role of subcortical arousal systems during transient changes in attention
Amma Otchere
Advisor: Michael Crair
Investigating the role of acetylcholine in the developing mouse cortex
Arianna Rodriguez-Rivera
Advisor: Elizabeth Goldfarb
Multiple cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of alcohol processing
Sabrina Santos-De Leon
Advisor: Samuel McDougle
Hierarchical control and memory encoding
Gabriella Valdivieso-Calderon
Advisor: Michael Nitabach
Investigating the effects of internal state on foraging in Drosophila
Elaine Wijaya
Advisor: Elizabeth Goldfarb
The influence of acute stress on episodic memory and statistical learning
Nathan Wu
Advisor: Damon Clark
Investigating perceptual asymmetry upon time reversal in Drosophila
Zhangir Azerbayev
Advisor: Julian Jara-Ettinger
Learning metacognition for artificial visual systems
Omar Chishti
Advisor: Hitten Zaveri
Investigating white matter connectivity in a novel brain atlas
Nanki Chugh
Advisor: Damon Clark
Characterizing innate pattern preferences in Drosophila
Michal Gerasimiuk
Advisor: Abhishek Bhattacharjee
Investigating the performance per watt of neuromorphic computing approaches in a spike sorting pipeline for implantable brain-computer interfaces
Samira Glaeser-Khan
Advisor: Alfred Kaye
Two-photon imaging in the prefrontal cortex to reveal spatiotemporal dynamics of norepinephrine spread and release
Jacques Morris
Advisor: Ethan Meyers
Creating real-time decoding algorithms to understand how neural activity enables complex behaviors
George Mourgkos
Advisor: Brian Hafler
Investigating the activation of disease-associated, proangiogenic astrocytes in neovascular age-related macular degeneration
Jenna Salameh
Advisor: Jessica Cardin
VIP interneuron contributions to perception in the primary visual cortex
Isabel Santiuste
Advisor: Dylan Gee
Effects of early life adversity on frontolimbic circuitry
Amy Shteyman
Advisor: Elizabeth Jonas
Investigating the role and ability of anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-xL to modulate memory and cognition
Alice Zhang
Advisor: Candice Paulsen
Determining size and stoichiometry of the TRPA1 CFS mutant protein channel
Sophia Zhao
Advisor: Michael Higley
Investigating the developmental trajectory of inhibitory synapses and dendritic spines in cortical pyramidal neurons