Exchange Fellows

Nicolas Fumeaux

Faculty Mentor: Sydney S. Cash, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Project Title: Deep learning for seizure prediction in a rat model of epilepsy

Project Summary: Nicolas worked on using iEEG recordings in an animal model of epilepsy to predict occurrence of spontaneous seizures. Mesial temporal...

Olivia Gozel

Faculty Mentor: John Maunsell, PhD
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Project Summary: The neuronal mechanisms of attention take place without our awareness. Nevertheless, they play a critical role in...

Amélie Guex

Faculty Mentor: Daniel J. Lee, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Department of Otology and Laryngology

Project Summary: The focus of this project is to study the use of pulsed laser light to stimulate the central auditory system. This novel...

Anthony Jakob

Faculty Mentor: Samuel Gershman, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
Project Title: Neural signatures of policy compression

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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... Read more about Efe Karabeyli

Amanda Klaeger

Faculty Mentor: Adam Cohen, Ph.D, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Project Title: Optical Electrophysiology in Zebrafish

Project Summary: To understand the function of neural circuits in the brain and spinal cord, one would like to perturb specific neurons...

Kriton Konstantinidis

Faculty Mentor: Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Project Title: Fitting adaptive autoregressive models for frequency analysis of non-stationary EEG data via hybrid Kalman filtering

Project Summary: High quality frequency spectra...

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...

Vanessa Laversenne

Faculty Mentor: Marcie Glicksman, PhD
Laboratory for Drug Discovery in Neurodegeneration, Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center
Project Title: Bioactive Compound Screen Based on a CD33 Assay for Alzheimer's Disease

Project Summary: The project is a drug discovery project in Alzheimer's disease from assay design to hit confirmation at the LDDN....

Alexandre Luster

Gabriel Kreiman, Ph.D.
Center for Brain Science, Boston Children's Hospital
Project Title: Analyzing sleep architecture and locality using intracranial EEG

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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...

Juliette Margaria

Penelope Hallett, Ph.D. and Ole Isacson, M.D.
Neuroregeneration Research Institute, McLean Hospital
Project Title: The role of lipids and inflammation in modulating the risk of developing late-onset neurodegenerative disease

Project Summary: The aim of the project is to characterize mechanisms that are engaged in the transition from early physiological adaptations...

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...

David Perruchoud

Faculty Mentor: Sydney Cash, MD, PhD
Cortical Physiology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital

Project Summary: This project takes place in one of the neurology laboratories of the Massachusetts General Hospital. It aims at the...