People

Numa P. Perez

2011-12 Summer Fellows

Host Lab: Dr. Grégoire Courtine

Project Summary: My involvement in Dr. Courtine's lab was two-fold. I worked under the mentorship of Ms. Lucia Friedli and Ms. Janine Heutschi, two of Dr. Courtine's PhD students, who developed a rodent model for a multi-system rehabilitation strategy to...

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 understanding of the neural processing of human language production, and may be involved in the future development of a...

Elvira Pirondini

Faculty Mentor: Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia

Project Summary: Professor Brown’s group seeks to unravel one of medicine’s big questions: how anaesthesia works. Several statistical methods and non-invasive techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging magnetoencephalography (MEG) and...

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 onto primary visual cortex and higher level processing. Here we seek to understand how task goals modulate the...

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...

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 system. Serial EM provides us with detailed anatomical information about neurons and their connections. Automated methods...

Blaise Robert

Faculty Mentor: Daniel B. Polley, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Eaton-Peabody Laboratory

Project Summary: The goal of the study is to measure the neural representation of sound frequency in mice while they are passively listening versus engaged in a behavioral discrimination task. We will use widefield epifluorescence imaging of a genetically...

Sandra Romero Pinto

Faculty Mentor: Daniel B. Polley, Ph.D.

Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Project Title: Recovery of cortical sound processing following peripheral and central rescue

Project Summary: The main focus of this project was to study recovery of hearing and cross-modal plasticity in a mouse model of cochlear gene therapy following congenital deafness. The fellow will train in small animal survival surgery and...

Paula Sánchez López

Gabriel Kreiman, Ph.D.

Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Ophthalmology

Project Title: An Intracranial EEG study on human working memory

Project Summary: Working memory involves storing, concentrating on, and processing information for a relatively short period of time, usually several seconds. Items held in working memory are able to be readily modified, reorganized, and quickly updated...

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...

Deborah Scherrer Ma

Lorella Battelli, Ph.D.

Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Project Title: Visual restoration of losses caused by cortical damage: Towards a new protocol to promote fast recovery

Project Summary: The project aims to provide visual motion training while delivering non-invasive neurostimulation, more specifically transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS), in the occipital region of cortically blind patients. Previous work...

Aakash Shah

2011-12 Summer Fellows

Host Lab: Dr. Carlotta Guiducci

Project Summary: The therapeutic effects of patterned electrical stimulation on several neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's (Benabid et al. 1987) and certain forms of inner ear deafness (Dodson and Mohuiddin 2000; Hartshorn et al. 1991...

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