Current Fellows
Riccardo Carpineto
Faculty Mentor: John Assad, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Project Title: Dynamics of Inititation of Voluntary Movement in the Superior Colliculus in the Mouse Model
Project Summary: Voluntary movements, which are actions initiated without direct external stimuli, remain a central question in motor neuroscience. Unlike reactive movements, the timing of self-initiated actions must emerge from internal neural dynamics...
Gabriele Dall'Aglio
Faculty Mentor: Evan Macosko, Ph.D.
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Project Title: Spatial Resolution of Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Striatal Vulnerability in XD
Project Summary: X-linked dystonia–parkinsonism (XDP) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder found almost exclusively in the Philippines, caused by a mutation in the TAF1 gene. The disease devastates the striatum (particularly medium spiny neurons) leading...
Alexis Cogne
Faculty Mentor: Conor J. Walsh, Ph.D.
Biodesign Lab, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Project Title: Breaking the Cycle of Learned Non-Use: Wearable Digital Interventions for Upper-Limb Recovery After Stroke
Project Summary: Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability worldwide, with upper-limb motor impairments affecting a large proportion of survivors. As populations age and the prevalence of risk factors increases, the incidence of stroke is expected...
Penghui Du
Faculty Mentor: Randy Buckner, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Harvard
Project Title: Evaluating Personalized and Standard Targeting Strategies for TMS in Depression
Project Summary: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a standard treatment for depression, with target location traditionally determined by empirical rules or group-level functional connectivity combined with individual structural MRI. However...
Shiu-Cheng Wang
Faculty Mentor: Tomer David Ullman, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Harvard
Project Title: Computational Modeling of Mental Rotation in Aphantasia
Project Summary: Intuitive physics studies how we naturally reason about the physical world around us. The mental computations underlying this ability remain contested. A leading current proposal is that humans have a "physical game engine" that models...
Beatrice Campo
Faculty Mentor: Shriya Srinivasan, Ph.D.
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Project Title: Ingestible Neuromodulator
Project Summary: This project focuses on the development and optimization of an ingestible neuromodulation device capable of reading from and stimulating the peripheral nervous system. By delivering targeted afferent signals from the gastrointestinal...
Davide Micheletti
Jessie Fang Lu Fu, Ph.D.
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Dept. of Radiology, MGH, Harvard Medical School, HST/MIT
Project Title: Perfusion-Related Network Vulnerability to Early Tau Accumulation in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease
Project Summary: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, affecting millions of people worldwide. Although approved therapies can slow disease progression, they are most effective when initiated before widespread tau accumulation and...
Leonardo Silvagni
Shriya Srinivasan, Ph.D.
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Lio Grienenberger
Shriya Srinivasan, Ph.D.
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Daniel Bach
Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Bertarelli Fellowship Program
Bertarelli Research Awards
Through the generosity of the Bertarelli Foundation in Switzerland, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) annually selects five students to perform their master's research in Harvard Medical School (HMS) or HMS-affiliated labs over a twelve-month period. The students are funded throughout...
Bertarelli Fellowship Program
Bertarelli Research Awards
Through the generosity of the Bertarelli Foundation in Switzerland, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) annually selects five students to perform their master's research in Harvard Medical School (HMS) or HMS-affiliated labs over a twelve-month period. The students are funded throughout...
Former Exchange Fellows
Léonie Asboth
Faculty Mentor: Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Department of Neurology
Project Summary: When planning a movement towards a visual target, the sensorimotor nervous system is engaged to estimate the spatial location of the target and correspondingly perform the motor output to reach it. Movements can be planned in two major...
Lionel Renaud
Faculty Mentor: Edwin M. Robertson, B.M., D.Phil.
Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Project Summary: The aim of this project is to improve our understanding of the neural principles governing memory interference. Memory interference can provide insights into how different types of memory interact and are organized within the human brain...
Efe Karabeyli
Faculty Mentor: Carl-Fredrik Westin, Ph.D.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Radiology
Project Summary: This project focused on the development of a new and robust approach to investigate the compressed sensing technologies for brain imaging. Mr. Karabeyli will work with the lab’s algorithmic development team and learn about current...
Charles-Henri Vila
Faculty Mentor: Daniel B. Polley, Ph.D.
Department of Otology and Laryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Project Summary: The adult nervous system can recover limited function following stroke or injury. Here, the plan is to study how the central auditory pathways of an adult mouse gradually recover the ability to encode sound following near-complete...
Isabelle Dalle Fusine
Faculty Mentor: Bernardo L. Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Project Summary: This study will focus on long-term depression (LTD), an important mechanism of synaptic plasticity that modifies synapses in response to neuronal activity and experience. Long-lasting changes in synapse function such LTD are involved in...
Ari Carlo Sarfatis
Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey D. Macklis, M.D.
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and Center for Brain Science
Project Title: Targeted manipulation of growth cone molecular networks implicated in cerebral cortex circuit (re)generation
Project Summary: Cortical projection neurons are integral to many of the most important capacities of neural circuitry, including sensation, motion, and higher-order cognition. These glutamatergic neurons cross extremely long distances -- up to 10,000s of...
Norbert Majubu
Faculty Mentor: Daniel B. Polley, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Eaton-Peabody Laboratory
Project Summary: Mr. Majubu will lead a research study focused on how to improve hearing in profoundly deaf cochlear implant users. He will enroll subjects, collect, analyze date and communicate his findings.
