People

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Jamee Mae Berg

Affiliation

The University of California, Los Angeles

Position

Postdoctoral Fellow

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I am a postdoctoral fellow working in the laboratory of Daniel Geschwind at UCLA. I am interested in the neurodevelopmental pathways that lead to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). My research focuses on determining the developmental role of a novel ASD candidate gene through molecular, cellular, and behavioral studies. Outside of the lab, I am an avid runner and singer. I am looking forward to meeting all of you at MNA2014.

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Leon French

Affiliation

Rotman Research Institute

Position

Postdoctoral Fellow

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I'm a fan of the Allen Institute for Brain Science with an interest in large scale analysis. My background is in computer science and neuroinformatics. Previously, I linked Allen mouse brain gene expression to rat connectivity data.

This is my third year at the workshop and I look forward to helping course participants with the Allen resources and letting their laptops speed up the work.

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Steven Miller

Affiliation

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Position

Ph.D. Candidate

URL

http://neurosciencedc.blogspot.com/

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I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. My research focuses on identifying treatments against seizures induced by the chemical weapons known as nerve agents. I'm interested in seizure disorders, psychiatric disorders, electrophysiology of the brain, and science communication.

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Hermina Nedelescu

Affiliation

OIST

Position

JSPS Research Fellow

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My research objective is to understand the cellular and molecular events that govern motor learning acquisition. One line of work focuses on investigating neuronal structural plasticity during development: a maturation period the organism refines its motor control. Another line of investigation concerns changes, at the cellular level, in response to learned motor tasks.   

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Katharine Babcock

Affiliation

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Indiana University- Bloomington

Position

Research Assistant

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Born and raised in Washington D.C. I'm at the beginning of a lifelong career in neuroscientific research and couldn't be more excited. As Santiago Ramon y Cajal so eloquently said in his memoir: "Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind."

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Philip Browning

Affiliation

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Position

Junior Faculty

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TBA

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Lauren Marie Burgeno

Affiliation

University of Washington

Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Position

Ph.D. Candidate

URL

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lauren-burgeno/85/b81/359

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I am currently a 4th year graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Paul E.M. Phillips at the University of Washington in Seattle.  I am studying alterations in drug-cue elicited phasic dopamine release over the course of drug history in rats self-administering cocaine.  Ultimately I hope to gain some insight into the mechanisms by which drug-associated cues are able to produce drug craving and promote relapse.  In my free time I enjoy hiking, backpacking, and sampling all of the wonderful microbrews that the Pacific Northwest has to offer.
I am really looking forward to meeting my fellow course participants!! 

Name

Maria Carrillo

Affiliation

Netherlands institute for Neuroscience

Position

Postdoc

URL

http://www.herseninstituut.knaw.nl/ResearchGroups/KeysersGroup/  

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I am a postdoc in the Netherlands institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I am mainly interested in understanding the neural mechanisms of empathy. My research combines the use of animal models of empathy for pain and a variety of techniques including behavioral assays, electrophysiology, calcium imaging and autoradiography. 

Name

Hanbo Chen

Affiliation

the University of Georgia

Position

Ph.D student

URL

http://cs.uga.edu/~hanbo/

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My major is Computer Science and my research interest is neural imaging. My study focuses on connectome and brain development/evolution. It is fascinating to study how mind works. Talk to me if you agree on that.

Name

Gabor Egervari

Affiliation

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

Position

PhD Student

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I am a second year PhD student in the laboratory of Dr Yasmin Hurd at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Our aim is to study the neurobiological underpinnings of substance abuse in the post-mortem human brain as well as in animal models of addiction.

Name

Laura Rose Fenlon

Affiliation

Queensland Brain Institute (QBI)

Position

PhD Student (first year)

URL

http://www.corpuscallosum.org.au/Laboratory_Members.html

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I am interested in developmental neuroscience. More specifically, I work on how sensory activity shapes the early postnatal brain. I'm looking forward to getting a more detailed understanding of developmental brain anatomy during this course.

Name

Darambazar Gantulga

Affiliation

Health Sciences University

Position

Instructor

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Medical Doctor, PhD in medicine with a passion for science.

Name

Jennifer Sarah Goldman

Affiliation

Montreal Neurological Institute

Position

PhD Student

URL

http://jennifergoldman.webs.com/

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I am a native Californian pursuing my PhD at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University, where I am the Colman-Sievers Innovation in Neuroscience Scholar. With a background in the arts and sciences, my research focuses on the cell biology of cerebral cortex, working toward a comprehensive inventory of the mechanisms and molecules by which cortical circuits are assembled and maintained.

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Laura-anne Grimbergen

Affiliation

Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Position

PhD student

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I am very excited for this unique opportunity to meet neuroscientists from all over the globe and work together on challenging assignments. My interests are quite broad; I earned my MSc-degree working on a rare RASopathy called Costello syndrome in the lab of professor Ype Elgersma. For my PhD I stayed in this lab but switched to another subject; Autism Spectrum Disorders. By means of family-based genetics we try to discover and functionally study novel genetic variation in ASD. 

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Luiz Guidi

Affiliation

University of Oxford

Position

Graduate Student

URL

http://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/team/a-g/luiz-guidi

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Born and raised in Brazil, I moved to the UK for a gap year after finishing school and have been living here almost ever since. Following a spell in Italy and a few years in the working world, travelling and learning foreign languages, I decided it was time to return to the academic world and went to the University of York where I gained a distinction in Theoretical Linguistics in 2010. I then moved to Cambridge for an MPhil at King's College, supported by an Isaac Newton Trust award, where I became progressively more interested in the brain and cognitive sciences more generally. My work, supervised by Prof Ian Roberts, focused on the evolution of the human language faculty and investigated potential parallels in cognitive computations in other domains of cognition, work for which I was awarded a Distinction.

The shift from biolinguistics to experimental neuroscience became the logical step and I then moved to Oxford in 2011 for an MSc in Neuroscience at Oriel College funded by the MRC, where I worked in the laboratories of Prof Molnar and Prof Monaco on uncovering the function of the dyslexia-susceptibility candidate genes KIAA0319 and KIAA0319L during cortical development, fpcusing on neuronal migration. Following the MSc, I undertook a Research Assistantship for a year at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics working both on the KIAA0319(L) project and on the neurogenetic basis of the neurodegenerative movement disorder Chorea-Acanthocytosis. In 2013 I started my DPhil at St John's College funded by the MRC.

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Name

Andrew Halley

Affiliation

University of California, Berkeley

Position

PhD Candidate

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I study the evolution of brain development by comparing brain growth patterns across species. My research focuses on the developmental mechanisms that produce primate encephalization and high neocortical proportions, combining high-field structural MRI and reconstructed histology sets to compare embryonic brain growth across species.

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Daniel Iascone

Affiliation

Columbia University

Position

Graduate Student

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Daniel Iascone is originally from Massachusetts, and has received a B.A. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania. He is interested in neural development and neurodegeneration. He enjoys sports, chess, and card games.

Name

Hiroyuki Igarashi

Affiliation

Tohoku University, Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Position

Master studen

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My research interest lies on the differentiation mechanism of stem cells.

Now I am very excited to take part in this course with the best scientists and researchers. I would like to make friends for life time collaboration in science through this course.

Name

Matthew Kirkcaldie

Affiliation

University of Tasmania

Position

Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience

URL

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Kirkcaldie/

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I'm interested in the structure, functional arealisation, and self-organisation of the cerebral cortex. I also study comparative neuroanatomy, Alzheimer's disease and cytoskeletal proteins.

I live in Hobart, Tasmania with my wife and two excellent daughters. Enjoy music, film, art, guitars and a range of other stuff.

Name

Neetu Kushwah

Affiliation

Defense Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences(DIPAS), DRDO

Position

Junior Research Fellow (PhD Scholar)

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Myself Neetu kushwah , I am working as a PhD student in defense institute of physiology and allied sciences (DIPAS),DRDO,Delhi. I am doing my research work in "Neurobiology of Depression" which is a common and highly heterogeneous psychiatric disorder. we create a model of depression by unpredictable chronic mild stress(UCMS) and give them short exposures of hypobaric hypoxia which we called as "inetermittent Hypoxia" which work as an antidepressant for treating depression.  I am very fortunate that i have been selected for this workshop. It will help me to identify various brain regions,their functioning and pattern of gene expression related with my study. Also i will be able to interact with the different people expertise in the field of neuroscience. So thanks to OIST and Allen Brain for giving me such a great opportunity.

Name

Ziwen Li

Affiliation

University of Edinburgh

Position

PhD student

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I'm a first year PhD student in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. I'm working on the development of the thalamus and the thalamocortical axons pathfinding. I'm looking forward to meeting you all at the course and I hope we all enjoy it.

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Rongjian Li

Affiliation

OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY

Position

PHD STUDENT

URL

www.cs.odu.edu/~rli

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I am second-year PhD student at Old Dominion University. My research interests include machine learning, data mining and bioinformatics.

Name

Huazheng Liang

Affiliation

The University of New South Wales

Position

Postdoctoral fellow

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Hi everyone, I am Andy from Neuroscience Research Australia. I did PhD in Neuroanatomy and am working for Prof George Paxinos now. I have been working on the descending fiber tracts to the spinal cord of the mouse and the neurotransmitter used by these pathways. I have been doing anterograde and retrograde tracer injections to the brain or spinal cord and immuofluorescence staining. Recently I have started trying to combine my histological work with MRI imaging to segment the mouse brain and producing the spinal cord atlas. At OIST, I am looking forward to hearing what you are doing and establishing collaboration with you. Best wishes  Andy

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Chen Liu

Affiliation

UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Position

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Dr. Liu is supported by a fellowship from Hilda & Preston Davis Foundation to study hypothalamic and brain stem circuits that regulate energy balance and glucose homeostasis.

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Michael Morabit

Affiliation

Columbia University Medical Center

Position

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

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I am a neuroscientist whose current research interests include the study of feeding behavior and the effects of weight perturbation on gene expression and plasticity in brain regions that regulate energy intake and metabolism.

Name

Linnaea Ostroff

Affiliation

New York University

Position

Research Associate

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My research focuses on understanding learning and memory at the level of subcellular structural plasticity.  I am interested in the heterogeneity in structure and molecular composition among synapses, and in how the architecture of the synapse population creates and maintains memory circuits.  I also have a particular interest in the role of local protein synthesis in mediating the synaptic changes that underlie memory.

Name

Elisa Victoria Parish

Affiliation

The University of Edinburgh

Position

PhD student

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I am a PhD student with the David Price group at the University of Edinburgh, currently based at RIKEN where I am working on a collaboration with the Tomomi Shimogori lab. My interests are the early patterning of the mammalian diencephalon, the development of the thalamus, and the networks of morphogens and transcription factors which control these processes.

Name

Christian Peters

Affiliation

University of California, San Francisco

Position

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, I have relocated to San Francisco for a postdoctoral fellowship in the Lily Jan lab to study ion channel physiology. I am fascinated by all facets of ion channel research, from molecular biophysics all the way up to their roles in shaping behavior, in particular how their expression and function in different neurons of the brain dictates a broad diversity of firing behaviors. I'm very excited to improve my grasp of neuroanatomy at the course at OIST to help me develop new and better questions for this type of research. When I'm not in the lab, I love snowshoeing and hiking, hence the personal photo taken at the top of Norvan Falls, near Vancouver.

Name

Tiago Pinheiro

Affiliation

Karolinska Institute

Position

PhD Student

URL

http://www.linkedin.com/in/tiagojorgepinheiro

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PhD student at Karolinska Institute, studying the regulation of neurogenesis by neurotransmitters and a MSc in Molecular Medicine at Uppsala University. Background in molecular medicine, ultra sensitive protein detection techniques and microbiology. Short leadership and cognitive sciences studies in the University of California, Berkeley. Originally from Portugal, avid traveler and tango lover.

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Name

Elena Rodriguez-Vieitez

Affiliation

Alzheimer Neurobiology Center

Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society

Position

Post-doc

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TBA

Name

Richard Rosch

Affiliation

King's College Hospital

Position

Academic Foundation Doctor

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I am a clinician-scientist, training to become a paediatric neurologist and working on research priojects identifying genetic variations and epigenetic modification patterns causative of common epilepsy syndromes. I am interested in how neural networks develop and their relationship to normal brain function as well as pathology.

Name

Andrew Steele

Affiliation

California State Polytechnic University Pomona

Position

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

URL

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~steelea/

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After doing a lot of teaching over the past 2 years, I am really looking forward to being a student again!

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Da-Jiang Zheng

Affiliation

University of Texas at Austin

Position

Graduate Student

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I am a second year graduate student in the Hofmann lab at UT Austin. I am currently studying neural mechanisms underlying mate choice in cichlid fishes. I am broadly interested in the neurobiology underlying social behavior.