Hugo Fluhr

Faculty Mentor: Mark L. Andermann, PhD
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Project Title: Automated analysis of mating behavior across timescales

Project Summary: In the Andermann lab, I investigate the neural circuits involved in the mating behavior of mammals....

Constantin Krempp

Faculty Mentor: Sydney S. Cash, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Project Title: Single pulse electrical stimulation for epileptic seizures prediction and sleep neuromodulation

Project Summary: Electrical stimulation is a common tool to interact...

Camille Mitchell

Faculty Mentor: Clifford J. Woolf, M.B., B.Ch., Ph.D.
F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center and Neurobiology Program, Boston Children’s Hospital
Project Title: Investigating the pathogenic mechanism of C9orf72-associated ALS/FTD using spinal cord and cortex organoids as model systems

Project Summary: Organoid models of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from...

Nguyet Minh Nguyen

Faculty Mentor: Florian Engert
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Project Title: Neural and genetic mechanisms of collective behavior in zebrafish

Project Summary: This project combines behavioral analysis, mathematical modeling, and simulation, as well as functional imaging in...

Leonardo Pollina

Faculty Mentor: Gabriel Kreiman, Ph.D.
Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology
Project Title: Task-dependent computational model of ventral visual cortex processing

Project Summary: Current computational models of visual processing focus on the bottom-up cascade of sequential operations from the retina...

Ilaria Ricchi

Faculty Mentor: Wei-Chung Allen Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Project Title: Graph analysis of cerebellar circuits and automated cell-type identification through machine learning

Project Summary: Electron Microscopy (EM) connectomics aims to build comprehensive maps of connections within an organism's nervous...

Arvin Subramaniam

Faculty Mentor: Cengiz Pehlevan, Ph.D.
Department of Mathematics, SEAS, Harvard University
Project Title: Storage and generalization in canonical cortical models of non-linear mixed selectivity

Project Summary: To successfully guide behaviour, individual neurons have to integrate multiple sources of information across...

2019-2020