The majority of program graduates end up in academia or academic medicine, whereas others have chosen careers in scientific publishing or administration, pharmaceutical research, intellectual property law, and technology consulting. Our curriculum encourages students to explore career options that fit their interests and life goals through instruction in professional skills and by highlighting career opportunities throughout the graduate years.
Current Careers of Recent Alumni (2012-2022)
- Last Name
- Pekarskaya
- First Name
- Elizabeth
- Current Institution/Lab
- New York State Psychiatric Institute
- Current Position
- Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Investigating the utility and mechanism of the atypical antidepressant tianeptine
- Last Name
- Alleman
- First Name
- Matteo
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Zuckerman Institute
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- What does geometry say about the function of neural codes?
- Last Name
- Tuohy
- First Name
- Mary Claire
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Mechanisms regulating vascular function after ischemic brain injury
- Last Name
- Max
- First Name
- Pensack
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Contributions of the superior colliculus to covert decision termination
- Last Name
- Lawen
- First Name
- Amir
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Zuckerman Institute
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Experience dependent shaping of cortical taste representation
- Last Name
- Kirwan
- First Name
- Konner
- Current Institution/Lab
- TBD
- Current Position
- TBD
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Mechanisms Regulating Axonal Transport of ESCRT Machinery
- Last Name
- Fang
- First Name
- Ching
- Current Institution/Lab
- Harvard Medical School, Kanaka Rajan Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Biological models of prediction and memory formation in the hippocampus
- Last Name
- Khajeh
- First Name
- Ramin
- Current Institution/Lab
- Harvard Medical School, Wei-Chung Lee Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- The role of the deep cerebellar nuclei in motor behaviors and locomotion
- Last Name
- Turcu
- First Name
- Denis
- Current Institution/Lab
- Allen Institute
- Current Position
- Shanahan Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- How to “see” with electricity - comprehensive end-to-end modeling of active electrolocation sheds new light on neural computation
- Last Name
- Biderman
- First Name
- Dan
- Current Institution/Lab
- Stanford University
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Resource-efficient machine learning systems: from natural behavior to natural language
- Last Name
- Reznik
- First Name
- Tracey Shi
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Reproducible Machine Learning Approaches to Functional Neuroimaging in Pediatric Psychiatry
- Last Name
- Buchanan
- First Name
- Estefany Kelly
- Current Institution/Lab
- Stanford University
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Building reliable machine learning systems to study animal behavior
- Last Name
- Roy
- First Name
- Nainika
- Current Institution/Lab
- TBD
- Current Position
- TBD
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Drivers of Immune Dysregulation in Late-onset Alzheimer's Disease
- Last Name
- Everett
- First Name
- Claire
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Zuckerman Institute
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- The neuroethology of visually-evoked aggression in Siamese fighting fish
- Last Name
- Villegas
- First Name
- Andres
- Current Institution/Lab
- NILO Therapeutics
- Current Position
- Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Control of Social Aggression through the Hippocampal CA2 Social Novelty Detector
- Last Name
- Bigler
- First Name
- Shivani
- Current Institution/Lab
- McKinsey & Company
- Current Position
- Consultant
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Odor-reward association in CA2 and its disruption in a mouse model of the human 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
- Last Name
- Hamilton
- First Name
- Stevie
- Current Institution/Lab
- TBD
- Current Position
- TBD
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Novel regulation and functions of AMPK in developing and adult neurons
- Last Name
- Lindsey
- First Name
- John (Jack)
- Current Institution/Lab
- Anthropic
- Current Position
- Member of Technical Staff
- Grad. Year
- 2024
- Thesis
- Specialized neural circuits underlying learning and consolidation
- Last Name
- Goldberg
- First Name
- Alexander E. (Elie)
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Targeting Neuron-Microglia Interactions at the Margin of Glioma
- Last Name
- Griffey
- First Name
- Christopher
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Selective vulnerability of dopaminergic neurons in a novel model of Parkinson's disease
- Last Name
- Stackmann
- First Name
- Michelle
- Current Institution/Lab
- Stanford University
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- A multiple Arc tagging system to uncover the organizational principles of multiple memories
- Last Name
- Chatila
- First Name
- Zena
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Uncovering Immune Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease: Microglia, T cells, and the Blood Brain Barrier
- Last Name
- Pourmorady
- First Name
- Ariel
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- A symmetry breaking process proposes noncoding functions for olfactory receptor RNAs
- Last Name
- Abe
- First Name
- Taiga
- Current Institution/Lab
- Stanford University
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- The role of model implementation in neuroscientific applications of machine learning
- Last Name
- Taliaferro
- First Name
- Joshua
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- A novel rodent radial maze task evokes distributed spatial working memory representations in the medial prefrontal cortex
- Last Name
- Tyulmankov
- First Name
- Danil
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of Southern California, Shanechi Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Synaptic plasticity and memory addressing in biological and artificial neural networks
- Last Name
- Coie
- First Name
- Lilian
- Current Institution/Lab
- New York Genome Center
- Current Position
- Staff Scientist (Grant Management)
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Modulation of sleep by the adhesion GPCR Cirl
- Last Name
- Petty
- First Name
- Gordon
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of Oxford
- Current Position
- Data Analytics Consultant
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Movement, arousal, and attention in the secondary sensory thalamus
- Last Name
- Park
- First Name
- Jung
- Current Institution/Lab
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Functional role of cortical circuits in sensory-guided behaviors
- Last Name
- Cohanpour
- First Name
- Michael
- Current Institution/Lab
- Firmenich
- Current Position
- Data Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- The Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Curiosity
- Last Name
- Demaestri
- First Name
- Camila
- Current Institution/Lab
- Tufts University
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Influecne of early lift adversity on amygdala-dependent threat reactivity: Exploring the role of sex and experience type on postnatal development and long-term outcomes
- Last Name
- Dixon
- First Name
- Rushell
- Current Institution/Lab
- TBD
- Current Position
- TBD
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Early life adversity causes fear generalization by impairing serotonergic modulation of the ventral dentate gyrus
- Last Name
- Singletary
- First Name
- Nicholas
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Neural representations of probabilistic inference and instrumental information-seeking
- Last Name
- Xie
- First Name
- Marjorie
- Current Institution/Lab
- New York Academy of Sciences and ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Research Scholar in AI & Society
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Task-dependent optimal representations for cerebellar learning
- Last Name
- Sibener
- First Name
- Leslie
- Current Institution/Lab
- Rockefeller Univeristy, Rajasethupathy Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Thalamic contributions to motor learning and performance
- Last Name
- Applegate
- First Name
- Marissa
- Current Institution/Lab
- Yale University
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Food-caching birds as a model for systems neuroscience: behavioral, anatomical, and physiological foundations
- Last Name
- Lim
- First Name
- Sean
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Multiple population codes in ventral CA1 for anxiogenic stimuli and behavioral states
- Last Name
- Bowler
- First Name
- John (Jack)
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of Utah Health, Heys Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2023
- Thesis
- Direct cortical inputs to hippocampal area CA1 transmit complementary signals for goal-directed navigation
- Last Name
- Liao
- First Name
- Zhenrui
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Towards a neuroscience of stories: Metric space learning in the hippocampus
- Last Name
- Christenson
- First Name
- Matthias
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute, Behnia Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Mechanisms of color coding in the fly
- Last Name
- Cooney
- First Name
- Patricia
- Current Institution/Lab
- Russo Partners
- Current Position
- Account Coordinator
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- The Kinematic & Neuromuscular Basis of Drosophila Larval Escape
- Last Name
- Nejatbakhshesfahan
- First Name
- Mohammadamin (Amin)
- Current Institution/Lab
- Simons Foundation Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Neuroscience
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Causal Models of Neural Data
- Last Name
- Nwakeze
- First Name
- Chiamaka
- Current Institution/Lab
- Medical Student, Harvard Medical School
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Regulation of Clustered Protocadherin Expression in the Murine Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems
- Last Name
- Panzarino
- First Name
- Alex
- Current Institution/Lab
- PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
- Current Position
- Experienced Associate
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- High-resolution characterization of dendritic spines in a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome
- Last Name
- Randolph
- First Name
- Lisa
- Current Institution/Lab
- UCSF, Anna Molofsky Lab (IRACDA Scholars program)
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Regulation of synapse number by Pumilio RNA-binding proteins
- Last Name
- Kato
- First Name
- Dan
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Multisensory Integration in Primary Somatosensory Cortex
- Last Name
- Stine
- First Name
- Gabriel
- Current Institution/Lab
- MIT McGovern Institute
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Neural mechanisms for forming and terminating a perceptual decision.
- Last Name
- Priestley
- First Name
- James
- Current Institution/Lab
- EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland; EPFL Life Sciences Independent Research (ELISIR) program
- Current Position
- Group leader & ELISIR scholar
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Dynamic and compressed memory coding in the hippocampus
- Last Name
- Datta
- First Name
- Malika
- Current Institution/Lab
- Yale Univeristy, Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellow
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- "Whole brain mapping reveals divergent changes in the dopaminergic system after chronic (R,S)-ketamine exposure"
- Last Name
- Portes
- First Name
- Jacob
- Current Institution/Lab
- MosaicML
- Current Position
- Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Flexible computation in neural circuits
- Last Name
- Paquelet
- First Name
- Grace
- Current Institution/Lab
- Weill Cornell Medicine, Conor Liston Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Single-cell activity and network properties of dorsal raphe serotonin neurons during emotional behaviors
- Last Name
- McGuirt
- First Name
- Avery
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Postnatal Maturation of the Striatal Cholinergic Interneuron
- Last Name
- Chen
- First Name
- Briana
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Novel mechanisms of enhancing resilience to stress
- Last Name
- Martyniuk
- First Name
- Kelly
- Current Institution/Lab
- Aglient Technologies
- Current Position
- R&D Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Dopamine D2 receptors regulate striatal circuit function and behavior
- Last Name
- Rabinovich
- First Name
- Rebecca
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of Utah
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Learning enhances encoding of time and temporal surprise in primary sensory cortex
- Last Name
- McGowan
- First Name
- Josephine
- Current Institution/Lab
- McLean Hospital of Harvard Medical School, William Carlezon Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Investigating (R,S)-ketamine as a prophylactic against stress-induced psychiatric disease
- Last Name
- Vancura
- First Name
- Bert
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Resident, Adult Neurology
- Grad. Year
- 2022
- Thesis
- Hippocampal Interneuron Dynamics Supporting Memory Encoding and Consolidation
- Last Name
- Pena
- First Name
- Francisco
- Current Institution/Lab
- Humankind Investments
- Current Position
- Data Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- The representation of food-cues in the amygdala during cue-induced eating
- Last Name
- Morgan
- First Name
- Ashlea
- Current Institution/Lab
- Healthcare Consultancy Group - HCG
- Current Position
- Associate Scientific Director
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Serotonin signaling in the mPFC regulates cognitive & emotional behaviors
- Last Name
- Warren
- First Name
- Rick
- Current Institution/Lab
- Meta Reality Labs
- Current Position
- Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Cortical and cerebellar contributions to complex motor behavior in mice
- Last Name
- Boyle
- First Name
- Lara
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Social familarity and recollection in the CA2 region of the hippocampus
- Last Name
- Benoit
- First Name
- Laura
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Current Position
- Medical Student
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- A sensitive period in the adolescent development of thalamo-prefrontal cortex circuit function and behavior
- Last Name
- Kohn
- First Name
- Jessica
- Current Institution/Lab
- McKinsey & Company
- Current Position
- Associate
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Stimulus and state-dependent filtering properties in neural inputs support motion vision computation in D. melanogaster
- Last Name
- Rolotti
- First Name
- Sebastian
- Current Institution/Lab
- Meta Reality Labs
- Current Position
- Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Neural circuit control of feature tuning in CA1 during spatial learning
- Last Name
- Zhuravleva
- First Name
- Viktoriya
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute
- Current Position
- Grant and Research Development Manager
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Stress-induced downregulation of Rab35 disrupts intracellular trafficking of AD-related proteins
- Last Name
- Nunnelly
- First Name
- Luke
- Current Institution/Lab
- Intouch Group
- Current Position
- Medical Strategist
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- St18 specifics MGE lineage globus pallidus prototypic neurons
- Last Name
- Whitebirch
- First Name
- Alexander
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of Washington, Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain, and Emotion (NAPE)
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Inhibitory-excitatory imbalance in hippocampal subfield cornu ammonis 2 circuitry in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy
- Last Name
- Pierce
- First Name
- Georgia
- Current Institution/Lab
- Firmenich
- Current Position
- Systems Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Movement-related activity surpasses touch responses in secondary somatosensory thalamus
- Last Name
- Belarde
- First Name
- James
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia Medical School; and Synapsis (Health Humanities Journal)
- Current Position
- Medical Student; Writer
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Development of a mouse model of a novel thin lissencephaly variant
- Last Name
- Braine
- First Name
- Catherine
- Current Institution/Lab
- Arvinas
- Current Position
- Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Transforming Growth Factor Beta Signaling in motor neurons in a mouse model of ALS
- Last Name
- Chintamen
- First Name
- Sana
- Current Institution/Lab
- Cajal Neuroscience
- Current Position
- Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Microglia in the Subgranular Zone:A specialized immune population in the neuroogenic niche of the hippocampus
- Last Name
- Bittner
- First Name
- Sean
- Current Institution/Lab
- Meta Reality Labs
- Current Position
- Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Bridging data, theory, and experiment in computational neuroscience
- Last Name
- Zimnik
- First Name
- Andrew
- Current Institution/Lab
- Zuckermain Institute, Columbia Univeristy
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- The Generation of Complex Reaching Behavior
- Last Name
- Heath
- First Name
- Sarah
- Current Institution/Lab
- McKinsey & Company
- Current Position
- Associate
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Chromatic Encoding in Drosophila
- Last Name
- Sendhilnathan
- First Name
- Naveen
- Current Institution/Lab
- Meta Reality Labs
- Current Position
- AR/VR Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- The role of the cerebellum in reinforcement learning
- Last Name
- Marshall
- First Name
- Najja
- Current Institution/Lab
- Meta Reality Labs
- Current Position
- Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Corticospinal Control of Motor Units
- Last Name
- Collier
- First Name
- Crystal
- Current Institution/Lab
- Georgetown University Hospital
- Current Position
- Resident, Neurology
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Applying High Pressure Focused Ultrasound to Develop a Mouse Model of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage (FUS-ICH)
- Last Name
- Berry
- First Name
- Jack
- Current Institution/Lab
- UCSF
- Current Position
- Resident, Psychiatry
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Distinct representatios of an anxiogenic environment across ventral hippocampal subregions and cell types
- Last Name
- Lanio
- First Name
- Marcos
- Current Institution/Lab
- Stony Brook
- Current Position
- Resident
- Grad. Year
- 2021
- Thesis
- Development of an Analysis Pipeline for Brain-Wide Memory Traces Following Fear Extinction
- Last Name
- Kanner
- First Name
- Scott
- Current Institution/Lab
- Stablix
- Current Position
- Co-founder, Associate Director of Platform Sciences
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- Developing a ubiquitous nanobody-based toolkit for modulating ion channel expression in health and disease
- Last Name
- Lee
- First Name
- Melissa
- Current Institution/Lab
- Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
- Current Position
- Program Officer
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- Glia in development and disorder
- Last Name
- Tsitliklis
- First Name
- Melina
- Current Institution/Lab
- Beacon Biosignals
- Current Position
- Neuroscientist
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- Electrophysiology of human spatial navigation and memory
- Last Name
- Gilboa
- First Name
- Dar
- Current Institution/Lab
- Current Position
- Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- Efficient nonconvex optimization in neural network training
- Last Name
- Clary
- First Name
- Rachel
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of California, Berkley
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- Dynamics of touch receptor plasticity in the mammalian peripheral nervous system
- Last Name
- Odean
- First Name
- Naomi
- Current Institution/Lab
- Zuckermain Institute, Columbia Univeristy
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- Information routing for decision making
- Last Name
- Kaufman
- First Name
- Alexandra
- Current Institution/Lab
- Regeneron
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- Noncanonical circuit members of reward signaling in the hippocampus
- Last Name
- Long
- First Name
- Laura
- Current Institution/Lab
- U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Current Position
- Policy Advisor
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- Characteriazation of visual word recognition using human intracranial neurophysiology
- Last Name
- Birdsall
- First Name
- Veronica
- Current Institution/Lab
- TRINITY Management Consulting
- Current Position
- Senior Consultant
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- KIF13A mediates the activity-dependent transport of ESCRT degradative pathway components in axons
- Last Name
- Batty
- First Name
- Eleanor (Ella)
- Current Institution/Lab
- Kempner Institute, Harvard
- Current Position
- Assistant Director for Educational Programs
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- Nonlinear Approaches for Neural Encoding and Decoding
- Last Name
- Vaadia
- First Name
- Rebecca
- Current Institution/Lab
- Health Science Communications
- Current Position
- Senior Medical Director
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- Development and Function of Proprioceptive Dendrite Territories in Drosophila Larvae
- Last Name
- Mishra
- First Name
- Neeli
- Current Institution/Lab
- Attain
- Current Position
- Senior Data Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- Characterization of global brain state dynamics in Drosophila melanogaster
- Last Name
- Balough
- First Name
- Elizabeth
- Current Institution/Lab
- Beth Israel Hospital
- Current Position
- Resident, Internal Medicine
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- Keeping Time: Parvalbumin Interneuron's Orchestration of Episodic Memory in Health and Disease
- Last Name
- Perez-Torres
- First Name
- Eduardo
- Current Institution/Lab
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai
- Current Position
- Resident
- Grad. Year
- 2020
- Thesis
- Retromer Dysfunction in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Last Name
- Goffer
- First Name
- Yossef
- Current Institution/Lab
- The Children's Hospital At Montefiore Medical Center
- Current Position
- House Staff Physician
- Grad. Year
- 2019
- Thesis
- Genetic Analysis of the Levin Rat - a Rodent Model of Diet-Sensitive Obesity
- Last Name
- Sisti
- First Name
- Alexander
- Current Institution/Lab
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Current Position
- Resident
- Grad. Year
- 2019
- Thesis
- The Neural Basis of Sugar Preference
- Last Name
- Warriner
- First Name
- Claire
- Current Institution/Lab
- Current Position
- Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2019
- Thesis
- Motor Cortical Control of Antagonistic Muscle Concontraction
- Last Name
- Lieberman
- First Name
- Ori
- Current Institution/Lab
- UCSF
- Current Position
- Resident, Neurology
- Grad. Year
- 2019
- Thesis
- Mechanisms of Basal Ganglia Development
- Last Name
- Stinson
- First Name
- Patrick
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute, Kriegeskorte Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2019
- Thesis
- Generative Modeling and Inference in Directred and Undirected Neural Networks
- Last Name
- Iascone
- First Name
- Daniel
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of Pennsylvania, Sehgal Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2019
- Thesis
- Global Synaptic Input Mapping of Cortical and Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons
- Last Name
- Donegan
- First Name
- Macayla
- Current Institution/Lab
- Talkspace
- Current Position
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer
- Grad. Year
- 2019
- Thesis
- Coding of Social Novelty in the Hippocampal CA2 Region
- Last Name
- Vignovich
- First Name
- Martin
- Current Institution/Lab
- Salk Institute, Chory Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2019
- Thesis
- Finding a Neural Nexus for Odor and Taste Integration
- Last Name
- Platt
- First Name
- Maryann
- Current Institution/Lab
- Yale University, Gracheva Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Grad. Year
- 2019
- Thesis
- Immune mechanisms of Brain Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Autoimmune Encephalitis
- Last Name
- Russo
- First Name
- Abby
- Current Institution/Lab
- Ctrl Labs
- Current Position
- Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2019
- Thesis
- Understanding Neural Dynamics and Geometry of Population Activity in Motor Cortices
- Last Name
- Hoffman
- First Name
- Ben
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of California, San Francisco
- Current Position
- Resident
- Grad. Year
- 2019
- Thesis
- The peripheral nervous system: From molecular mechanisms to non-invasive therapeutics
- Last Name
- Fishman
- First Name
- Zvi Hershel (Hershy)
- Current Institution/Lab
- TBD
- Current Position
- TBD
- Grad. Year
- 2019
- Thesis
- Taste Processing in the Brainstem
- Last Name
- Horta
- First Name
- Adan
- Current Institution/Lab
- Social Capital
- Current Position
- Portfolio Manager
- Grad. Year
- 2018
- Thesis
- Cell type-specific interchromosomal interactions as a mechanism for transcirptional diversity
- Last Name
- Howard
- First Name
- Clare
- Current Institution/Lab
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Current Position
- Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2018
- Thesis
- Slow and Steady: Serotonergic Interneurons Modulate Drosophila Walking Behavior
- Last Name
- So
- First Name
- Nina
- Current Institution/Lab
- Pfizer
- Current Position
- Director, WRDM Operations and mRNA Scientific Planning
- Grad. Year
- 2018
- Thesis
- Behavioral Significance and Neural Processing of Communication Vocalizations
- Last Name
- Fageiry
- First Name
- Samaher
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of Pennsylvania
- Current Position
- Resident
- Grad. Year
- 2018
- Thesis
- Mapping Cortical Connections with Spinal Circuits
- Last Name
- Wang
- First Name
- Peter
- Current Institution/Lab
- Stanford University, Deisseroth Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoc
- Grad. Year
- 2018
- Thesis
- Order from Disorder: Imposing structure on odor representation during learning
- Last Name
- Chalif
- First Name
- Joshua
- Current Institution/Lab
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Current Position
- Resident
- Grad. Year
- 2018
- Thesis
- Ventral spinocerebellar Tract Neurons are essential for mammalian locomotion
- Last Name
- Cueva
- First Name
- Chris
- Current Institution/Lab
- MIT, Robert Yang lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2018
- Thesis
- Recurrent computation in brains and machines
- Last Name
- Qian
- First Name
- Sam
- Current Institution/Lab
- PlaceIQ
- Current Position
- Senior Data Scientst
- Grad. Year
- 2018
- Thesis
- Internal tracheal sensory neuron wiring and function in Drosophila larvae
- Last Name
- Dempsey
- First Name
- Conor
- Current Institution/Lab
- TBD
- Current Position
- TBD
- Grad. Year
- 2018
- Thesis
- Learning and generalization of sensory predictions in cerebellum-like structures
- Last Name
- Jenkins
- First Name
- Blair
- Current Institution/Lab
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
- Current Position
- Resident (Dermatology)
- Grad. Year
- 2018
- Thesis
- Cellular and Molecular Mechansims of Mammalian Touch Receptor Patterning
- Last Name
- Shakman
- First Name
- Katie
- Current Institution/Lab
- Evidation Health
- Current Position
- Senior Health Data Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2018
- Thesis
- Cross compartmental modulation and plasticity in the Drosophila mushroom body
- Last Name
- Tsai
- First Name
- Joseph
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of Washington Medical Center
- Current Position
- Resident (Radiation Oncology)
- Grad. Year
- 2018
- Thesis
- SRGAP2 in the adult barrel cortex
- Last Name
- Aber
- First Name
- Etan
- Current Institution/Lab
- National Cancer Institute, NIH
- Current Position
- NIH Hematology Oncology Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2018
- Thesis
- Myelin is remodeled cell-autonomously by oligodendroglial macroautophagy
- Last Name
- Youssef
- First Name
- Mary
- Current Institution/Lab
- UCLA Medical Center
- Current Position
- Resident (Psychiatry)
- Grad. Year
- 2017
- Thesis
- Developmental manipulation of the hippocampal dentate gyrus to investigate effects of early life stress on adult dentate function
- Last Name
- Clark
- First Name
- Samuel
- Current Institution/Lab
- Terran Biosciences
- Current Position
- CEO and Founder
- Grad. Year
- 2017
- Thesis
- Characterization striatal direct and indirect path neurons during motor learning and anxiety
- Last Name
- Kang
- First Name
- Yul
- Current Institution/Lab
- Queen Mary University of London, Dept of Biological and Experimental Psychology
- Current Position
- Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
- Grad. Year
- 2017
- Thesis
- Inferring the Decision Rule from the Choice and Speed
- Last Name
- Lindsay
- First Name
- Grace
- Current Institution/Lab
- New York University, Psychology and Data Science
- Current Position
- Assistant Professor
- Grad. Year
- 2017
- Thesis
- Modeling the Impact of Internal State on Sensory Processing
- Last Name
- Jimenez
- First Name
- Jessica
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of California, San Francisco, Neurology
- Current Position
- Resident (Neurology)
- Grad. Year
- 2017
- Thesis
- Control of Anxiety-Related Behavior by the Ventral Hippocampus
- Last Name
- Dupre
- First Name
- Christophe
- Current Institution/Lab
- Harvard University, Engert Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2017
- Thesis
- Non-Overlapping Neural Networks in Hydra vulgaris
- Last Name
- Burgos
- First Name
- Anita
- Current Institution/Lab
- US House of Representatives
- Current Position
- Senior Health Policy Advisor
- Grad. Year
- 2017
- Thesis
- Dissection of neural circuitry underlying nociception in drosophila larvae
- Last Name
- Meszaros
- First Name
- Jozsef
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Medical Center, Dept. of Psychiatry, Javitch Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2017
- Thesis
- Measuring dopamine release in an area of very low innervation
- Last Name
- Ebstein
- First Name
- Sarah
- Current Institution/Lab
- Regeneron
- Current Position
- Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2017
- Thesis
- Gain of function mechanisms of neurodegeneration in ALS
- Last Name
- Zaremba
- First Name
- Jeffrey
- Current Institution/Lab
- Zoox
- Current Position
- Senior Data Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2017
- Thesis
- Hippocampal spatial codign during reward learning in Df(16) A mouse model of Schizophrenia
- Last Name
- Elsayed
- First Name
- Gamaleldin
- Current Institution/Lab
- Google Research, Brain Team
- Current Position
- Senior Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2017
- Thesis
- Identification and Validation of Structures in Neural Population Responses
- Last Name
- Florence
- First Name
- Timothy
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Current Position
- Resident (Neurosurgery)
- Grad. Year
- 2017
- Thesis
- Visual memory in Drosophila
- Last Name
- Seely
- First Name
- Jeff
- Current Institution/Lab
- Current Position
- Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2017
- Thesis
- Tensor Analysis and the dynamics of Motor Cortex
- Last Name
- Bolkan
- First Name
- Scott
- Current Institution/Lab
- Princeton University
- Current Position
- Postdoc
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Thalamo-prefrontal substrates regulating cognitive behaviors in mice
- Last Name
- Clark
- First Name
- Abigail
- Current Institution/Lab
- San Diego Va Health Care Syst
- Current Position
- Psychiatrist
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- The function of dopamine D2 receptors in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus
- Last Name
- Doobin
- First Name
- David
- Current Institution/Lab
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
- Current Position
- Fellow (Vitreoretinal Surgery)
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Genetic and Infectious Causes of Microcephaly: NDE1 Mutations and the Zika Virus
- Last Name
- Williamson
- First Name
- Rebecca
- Current Institution/Lab
- Partners HealthCare, Boston
- Current Position
- Resident Physician
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Ubiquitin-dependent trafficking of amyloid precursor protein and implications for Alzheimer's disease
- Last Name
- Sitko
- First Name
- Austen
- Current Institution/Lab
- Harvard University, Lisa Goodrich Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Organization of retinal ganglion cell axons in the developing mouse retinogeniculate pathway
- Last Name
- Hoang
- First Name
- Phuong
- Current Institution/Lab
- Stanford University Hospital
- Current Position
- Resident
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- From stem cells to circuits: modeling the specification and synaptogenesis of spinal inhibitory interneurons
- Last Name
- Kerk
- First Name
- John
- Current Institution/Lab
- Regeneron
- Current Position
- Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Diversification of C. elegans motor neuron identity via selective effector gene repression
- Last Name
- Danielson
- First Name
- Nathan
- Current Institution/Lab
- Current Position
- Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Functional diversity within hippocampal principal cell subpopulations
- Last Name
- Barkan
- First Name
- Charlotte
- Current Institution/Lab
- Williams College
- Current Position
- Assistant Professor
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Evolution of vocal patterns: returning hindbrain circuits during specieis divergence
- Last Name
- Fox
- First Name
- Leora
- Current Institution/Lab
- Huntington's Diesease Society of America
- Current Position
- Asst. Director of Research and Patient Engagement
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Alfy mediates turnover of huntingtin and modifies pathogenesis in mouse
- Last Name
- Singla
- First Name
- Shobhit
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Current Position
- Fellow (Epilepsy)
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- A Cerebellum-like Circuit in the Auditory System Cancels Self-generated Sounds
- Last Name
- Padilla
- First Name
- Nancy (Padilla-Coreano)
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of Florida, Dept of Neuroscience
- Current Position
- Assistant Professor
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Direct ventral hippocampal-prefrontal input is required for anxiety-related neural activity and behavior
- Last Name
- Reardon
- First Name
- Thomas
- Current Institution/Lab
- Meta Reality Labs (CTRL-Labs)
- Current Position
- Director, Research Science
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Improved mono-synaptic tracing tools for mapping, monitoring, and manipulation of neural circuits.
- Last Name
- Gabitto
- First Name
- Mariano
- Current Institution/Lab
- Allen Institute for Brain Science
- Current Position
- Assistant Investigator
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Dissecting interneuron Diversity, One Cell Tyape at a Time.
- Last Name
- DePasquale
- First Name
- Brian
- Current Institution/Lab
- Princeton University, Department of Psychology Ctr. For Statistics & Machine Learning, Jonathan Pillow Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoc
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Methods for Building Network Models of Neural Circuits
- Last Name
- Mendelsohn
- First Name
- Alana
- Current Institution/Lab
- Private Practice
- Current Position
- Psychiatrist
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Specifying Neurons and Circuits for Limb Motor Control
- Last Name
- Zhang
- First Name
- Wujie
- Current Institution/Lab
- Eikon Therapeutics
- Current Position
- Data scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Network Models of the Lateral Intraparietal Area
- Last Name
- Merel
- First Name
- Josh
- Current Institution/Lab
- Meta Reality Labs (CTRL-Labs)
- Current Position
- Research Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- New Perspective on Learning, Inference, and Control in Brains and Machines
- Last Name
- Kushnir
- First Name
- Lyudmila
- Current Institution/Lab
- École NormaleSupérieure, Paris, Sophie Deneve Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoc
- Grad. Year
- 2016
- Thesis
- Neural classifiers with limited connectivity and local recurrent readouts
- Last Name
- First Name
- Current Institution/Lab
- Current Position
- Grad. Year
- Thesis
- Last Name
- Stujenske
- First Name
- Joseph
- Current Institution/Lab
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
- Current Position
- Assistant Attending
- Grad. Year
- 2015
- Thesis
- Prefrontal-Amygdala CIrcuits Regulating Fear and Safety
- Last Name
- Carvalho
- First Name
- Fernanda
- Current Institution/Lab
- Columbia University Medical Center
- Current Position
- Neurocritial Care Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2015
- Thesis
- The Role of the Indirect Pathway in Motivated Behavior
- Last Name
- Baruni
- First Name
- Jalal
- Current Institution/Lab
- Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford Medicine
- Current Position
- Instructor
- Grad. Year
- 2015
- Thesis
- Mechanisms of attention in visual cortex and the amygdala
- Last Name
- Russo
- First Name
- Marco
- Current Institution/Lab
- New York University
- Current Position
- Clinical Resrach Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2015
- Thesis
- The Auto-Associative Circuitry of Olfactory Cortex
- Last Name
- Kolster
- First Name
- Rachel
- Current Institution/Lab
- The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
- Current Position
- Associate Director, Neurology Global Medical Affairs
- Grad. Year
- 2015
- Thesis
- Single-Molecule Imaging of Conformational Dynamics in a Neurotransmitter Transporter Homolog
- Last Name
- Rudnick. Noam
- First Name
- Current Institution/Lab
- Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine
- Current Position
- Retina Fellow
- Grad. Year
- 2015
- Thesis
- Role of Autophagy in a Mouse Model of ALS
- Last Name
- Gore
- First Name
- Felicity
- Current Institution/Lab
- Stanford University, Bioengineering, Karl Deisseroth Lab
- Current Position
- Postdoc
- Grad. Year
- 2015
- Thesis
- Neural Circuits Mediating Innate and Learned Behaviors
- Last Name
- Kaifosh
- First Name
- Patrick
- Current Institution/Lab
- Meta Reality Labs (CTRL-Labs)
- Current Position
- Director, Research Science
- Grad. Year
- 2015
- Thesis
- Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Learning
- Last Name
- Machado
- First Name
- Timothy
- Current Institution/Lab
- University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Neuroscience
- Current Position
- Presidential Assistant Professor
- Grad. Year
- 2015
- Thesis
- Probing Circuits for Spinal Motor Control
- Last Name
- Scalise
- First Name
- Karina
- Current Institution/Lab
- HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Misha Ahrens Lab
- Current Position
- Visiting Scientist
- Grad. Year
- 2015
- Thesis
- Purkinje Cell Responses during Optomotor Behavior in Larval Zebrafish