| Name | Degree Year | Lab | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erin Aisenberg | 2024 Spring | Bateup lab | Elucidating a Novel Peptidergic Circuit in the Nucleus Accumbens Medial Shell |
| Julian Bieber-Dishart | 2024 Spring | Dillin lab | Olfaction regulates peripheral mitophagy and mitochondrial function |
| Katie Cording | 2024 Spring | Bateup lab | The impact of autism spectrum disorder risk gene mutations on striatal circuit function |
| Marisa Denkinger | 2024 Spring | Jagust lab | Relationships between blood-brain barrier disruption and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in aging |
| Xue Lily Gong | 2024 Spring | Theunissen / Gallant labs | Language representation in human cerebral cortex |
| Madeline Klinger | 2024 Spring | Wilbrecht / Landry labs | Fluorescent Adolescence: Shedding Light on Neural Encoding of Task Information in the Adolescent vs. Adult Frontal Cortex |
| Sylvia Madhow | 2024 Spring | Bouchard lab | Parsimonious estimates of functional connectivity and biomarkers of cognitive development in early childhood |
| Matthew Davis | 2023 Fall | Saijo / Beery Labs | Investigating genetic and environmental regulation of neurodevelopment and social behavior |
| Dariya Bakshinskaya | 2023 Summer | Isacoff Lab | Synaptic heterogeneity and the underlying molecular mechanisms at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction. |
| Celia Ford | 2023 Summer | Wallis Lab | Orbitofrontal and Hippocampal Contributions to State Coding and Decision Making |
| William Croughan | 2023 Spring | Foster Lab | Closed Loop Investigation of Hippocampal Replay |
| Molly LaPoint | 2023 Spring | Jagust Lab | Investigating regional amyloid accumulation and cerebral blood flow reductions in aging and Alzheimer's disease |
| Krisha Aghi | 2022 Fall | Isacoff Lab | Robustness in locomotory output from synapse-to-synapse diversity in transmission and regulation at the Drosophila larval neuromuscular junction |
| Arjun Mukerji | 2022 Fall | Silver Lab | Two experiments using brain imaging to answer questions about the neural basis of Human Vision |
| Christine Tseng | 2022 Fall | Gallant Lab | Investigating the effects of context on semantic representations in the brain and mapping social representations in the brain |
| Christiane Voufo | 2022 Fall | Feller Lab | The Circuit Mechanisms Underlying the Spatiotemporal Properties of Stage 1 Retinal Waves |
| Joseph Aman | 2022 Summer | Feldman Lab | Multiple Modes of PV Interneuron Plasticity in Mouse Somatosensory Cortex |
| Zuzanna Balewski | 2022 Summer | Wallis Lab | Prefrontal and Subcortical Dynamics of Value-Based Decision Making |
| Benjamin Shababo | 2022 Summer | Adesnik Lab | Methods for High-throughput, Cellular-Resolution Estimation of Synaptic Properties |
| Amanda Tose | 2022 Summer | Lammel Lab | Inputs to midbrain dopamine neurons control nicotine aversion and motivated feeding |
| Ellen Zippi | 2022 Summer | Carmena / Wallis Labs | Neuroprosthetic Skill Learning and Stimulation-Based Neuromodulation |
| Holly Gildea | 2022 Spring | Dillin Lab | C. elegans glial HSF-1 protects from stress and aging via a novel neural mechanism |
| Christine Liu | 2021 Fall | Lammel Lab | An inhibitory brainstem input to dopamine neurons encodes nicotine aversion |
| Jacob Miller | 2021 Fall | D'Esposito Lab | The neural architecture of working memory: anatomical and functional studies of prefrontal cortex |
| Maimon Rose | 2021 Fall | Yartsev Lab | Cortical representation of social communication in Egyptian fruit bats |
| Kevin Yu | 2021 Fall | Theunissen Lab | An Auditory Memory System for Individual Vocal Recognition in the Zebra Finch |
| Azure Grant | 2021 Summer | Kriegsfeld / Wilbrecht Labs | Reproductive, Metabolic, and Autonomic Networks Across the Female Lifespan |
| Irene Grossrubatscher | 2021 Summer | Isacoff Lab | From networks to neurons: A multilevel investigation of experience-dependent improvement in prey capture behavior in the larval zebrafish |
| Colin Hoy | 2021 Summer | Knight Lab | Electrophysiological Signatures of Reward, Surprise, and Conflict in the Human Brain |
| Melissa Newton | 2021 Summer | D'Esposito / Kayser Labs | Neural correlates of decision-making in human parietal cortex |
| Sara Popham | 2021 Summer | Gallant Lab | Investigating Relationships Between Semantic Representations in the Human Brain |
| Tobias Schmid | 2021 Summer | Yartsev Lab | Vocal Learning Neural Circuits in the Egyptian Fruit Bat |
| Emilio Soto-Soto | 2021 Summer | Kriegsfeld Lab | Impacts of Chronic Circadian Disruption on Neural Structure and Cognition: The Importance of Considering Sex and Age |
| Gregory Telian | 2021 Summer | Adesnik Lab | The multifunctional nature of motor cortex |
| Malak El-Quessny | 2021 Spring | Feller Lab | The Role of Dendrites in the Organization of Functional Neural Circuits for Motion Detection in the Retina |
| Vael Gates | 2021 Spring | Collins / Griffiths Labs | Formalizing and Testing Computational Cognitive Models of Social Collaboration |
| Jenna Adams | 2020 Fall | Jagust Lab | Tau pathology is associated with neural activity and connectivity in aging and preclinical Alzheimer’s disease |
| Adam Eichenbaum | 2020 Fall | D'Esposito Lab | The Neural Bases of Individual Differences in Complex Cognition and Behavior |
| Jocelyn Breton | 2020 Summer | Kaufer Lab | The role of the prefrontal cortex in stress and motivation |
| Franklin Caval-Holme | 2020 Summer | Feller Lab | The Neural Basis of Light Detection in the Developing Retina |
| Charles Garfinkle | 2020 Summer | Sommer Lab | A Tale of Two Dictionary Learning Problems |
| Zeke Barger | 2020 Spring | Dan Lab | Robust, automated sleep scoring by a compact neural network with distributional shift correction |
| Charles Frye | 2020 Spring | DeWeese / Bouchard Labs | Finding Critical and Gradient-Flat Points of Deep Neural Network Loss Functions |
| Ignas Cerniauskas | 2019 Fall | Lab | Chronic stress induces activity, synaptic and transcriptional remodeling of the lateral habenula associated with deficits in motivated behaviors |
| Sara Slama | 2019 Fall | Knight Lab | Mechanisms of visual attention, and their relationships to expectation and navigation, in the human brain |
| Daniel Toker | 2019 Fall | D'Esposito Lab | Structure, Dynamics, and Information Flow Across Brain States |
| Shariq Mobin | 2019 Spring | Olshausen Lab | Efficient coding of natural sound |
| Jonathan Jui | 2018 Fall | Flannery Lab | Endogenous Induced Cell Fate Change of the Müller Glia in Different Models of Retinal Degeneration |
| Keven Laboy-Juarez | 2018 Fall | Feldman Lab | Principles of Tactile Stimulus Integration in the Rodent’s Whisker Somatosensory Cortex |
| Kimberly Long | 2018 Fall | Kaufer Lab | The role of oligodendrocytes and myelin in differential susceptibility to stress-induced anxiety |
| Amy LeMessurier | 2018 Summer | Feldman Lab | Experience-Dependent Refinement of Maps and Population Codes in Primary Somatosensory Cortex. |
| Anwar Nunez-Elizalde | 2018 Summer | Gallant Lab | Using multiple high-dimensional feature spaces to model brain activity recorded during naturalistic experiments |
| Elena Ryapolova-Webb | 2018 Summer | Adesnik Lab | Interactions between barrel cortex and primary somatosensory thalamus in the mouse |
| Maureen Turner | 2018 Summer | Ngai Lab | The role of Stem Cell Factor in recovery from neurological injury |
| Katelyn Arnemann | 2018 Spring | Jagust Lab | Insights on Alzheimer’s disease etiology from network approaches in healthy aging |
| Falk Lieder | 2018 Spring | Griffiths Lab | Beyond bounded rationality: Reverse-engineering and enhancing human intelligence |
| Elizabeth Lorenc | 2018 Spring | D'Esposito Lab | The neural bases of precision and distractor resistance in visual working memory |
| Alexander Naka | 2018 Spring | Adesnik Lab | Inhibitory pathways in the neocortical microcircuit |
| Vladimir Senatorov | 2018 Spring | Kaufer Lab | Mechanisms and treatment of blood-brain barrier dysfunction and related pathology during aging |
| Alaina Thomas | 2018 Spring | Wilbrecht Lab | The effects of early life adversity on the development of circuits that support flexible decision-making |
| Timothy Day | 2017 Fall | Schaffer / Flannery Labs | Expanding the Potential of Adeno-Associated Virus for the Treatment of Intractable Inherited Retinal Degenerations |
| Yvonne Fonken | 2017 Fall | Knight Lab | Electrophysiology of inhibition and auditory prediction mechanisms in human cortex |
| Daniel Bliss | 2017 Summer | D'Esposito Lab | Serial Dependence in Visual Working Memory: Time Course and Neural Mechanisms |
| Christopher Holdgraf | 2017 Summer | Knight Lab | Predictive models of auditory perception in human electrophysiology |
| Samuel Israel | 2017 Summer | Ngai Lab | Characterization of a Novel Population of Olfactory Neurons |
| Shawn Marks | 2017 Summer | Jagust Lab | The Influence of Age and Alzheimer_s Pathology on Hippocampal Function |
| Ryan Neely | 2017 Summer | Carmena Lab | Cortical and Striatal Circuits for Learning Adaptive Behaviors and Wireless Ultrasonic Implants for Interfacing with the Nervous System |
| Joseph Driscoll | 2017 Spring | Kriegsfeld / Fields Labs | Effects of Corticotrophin Releasing Factor on Ventral Tegmental Area Neurons |
| Samuel Harding-Forrester | 2017 Spring | Feldman Lab | Somatotopic Precision of Whisker Tuning in Layer 2/3 of Rat Barrel Cortex |
| Brian Isett | 2017 Spring | Feldman Lab | Simultaneous Coding of Microscopic and Macroscopic Features of Touch in Mouse Somatosensory Cortex |
| Anna Vlasits | 2017 Spring | Feller Lab | Excitatory Inputs to Starburst Amacrine Cells: Adaptation, Computations, Development |
| Natalia Bilenko | 2016 Fall | Gallant Lab | Functional hyperalignment by CCA |
| Levi Gadye | 2016 Fall | Ngai Lab | Regeneration of olfactory epithelium |
| Benjamin Kallman | 2016 Fall | Scott Lab | Circuits that regulate innate behaviors |
| Kenji Kobayashi | 2016 Fall | Hsu Lab | Attention and Value Processes |
| Courtney Gallen | 2016 Summer | D'Esposito Lab | Functional Brain Network Organization Supporting Executive Control Processing |
| Tyler Lee | 2016 Summer | Olshausen / Theunissen Labs | Neurobiological models of auditory scene analysis |
| Alina Liberman | 2016 Summer | Whitney Lab | The Role of Serial Dependence in Visual Perception |
| Claire Oldfield | 2016 Summer | Isacoff Lab | Imaging thoughts - an investigation of neural circuits encoding changes in behavior in zebrafish |
| Matar Haller | 2016 Spring | Knight Lab | Sustained neuronal activity in human prefrontal cortex links perception and action |
| Sarah Hillenbrand | 2015 Summer | Ivry Lab | Action selection and coordination: Perspectives from movement speed learning |
| Oscar Vazquez | 2015 Summer | Kaufer Lab | Serum albumin promotes stem cell proliferation and neurogenesis in a rodent model of post-traumatic epilepsy |
| Benjamin Gaub | 2015 Spring | Isacoff Lab | Vision restoration in animal models of human blindness using natural and engineered light-gated receptors |
| Colleen Kirkhart | 2015 Spring | Scott Lab | Gustatory Processing in Drosophila Higher Brain Centers |
| Helene Moorman | 2015 Spring | Carmena Lab | Representation and control in closed-loop brain-machine interface systems |
| Maya Cano | 2014 Fall | Knight Lab | The Behavior and Electrophysiology of Directed Forgetting in the Auditory Domain |
| Robert Gibboni | 2014 Fall | Bao Lab | Plasticity of neural circuits in the auditory system |
| Asako Miyakawa | 2014 Fall | Bao Lab | Plasticity in the Auditory Pathway |
| Lucas Pinto | 2014 Fall | Dan Lab | Extrasensory components of sensory discrimination |
| Stephanie Greer | 2014 Spring | Walker Lab | The impacts of sleep and sleep deprivation on human brain and behavioral incentive processing |
| Aaron Koralek | 2014 Spring | Carmena Lab | Large-Scale Neuronal Network Changes Underlying Neuroprosthetic Learning |
| Alana Wong | 2014 Spring | Kaufer Lab | Dissecting the functional and morphological contributions of the glucocorticoid receptor gene in neural progenitor cells of the hippocampus |
| Rachel Denison | 2013 Fall | Silver Lab | Parallel and Competitive Processes in Low-Level Vision and Their Impact on Awareness |
| Caterina Gratton | 2013 Fall | D'Esposito Lab | Attention and Disruption: Modulating the Interactions between Large-scale Brain Networks and the Properties of Local Cortical Regions |
| Liberty Hamilton | 2013 Fall | Bao Lab | Modulation and Manipulation of Sound Representation in the Auditory Cortex |
| Alexander Huth | 2013 Fall | Gallant Lab | Semantic Representation in the Human Brain |
| Kevin Mann | 2013 Fall | Scott Lab | A Mechanism for Behavioral Cross--?Inhibition in Drosophila |
| Allan-Hermann Pool | 2013 Fall | Scott Lab | Inhibitory Control in the Drosophila melanogaster Feeding Circuit |
| Chris Rodgers | 2013 Fall | DeWeese Lab | Rule-encoding neurons in prefrontal and auditory cortex of rats performing a task similar to the cocktail party problem |
| Jennifer Sloan | 2013 Fall | Wallis Lab | The Prefrontal Cortex and Hierarchical Behavior |
| Emily Cooper | 2012 Fall | Banks Lab | Studies of human depth perception in real and pictured environments |
| David Fegen | 2012 Fall | D'Esposito Lab | Cortical mechanisms underlying verbal working memory |
| Allyson Mackey | 2012 Fall | Bunge Lab | Behavioral and Neural Effects of Reasoning Training by Allyson Mackey |
| Kirstie Whitaker | 2012 Fall | Bunge Lab | Individual differences in white matter integrity: Linking brain structure to cognition in children and adults |
| Linh Dang | 2012 Spring | Jagust Lab | Dopamine, neural networks, and cognition |
| Adeen Flinker | 2012 Spring | Knight Lab | The electrophysiology of language perception and production |
| Erica Warp | 2012 Spring | Isacoff Lab | An optogenetic investigation of the control and development of the spinal central pattern generator in zebrafish |
| Leah Byrne | 2011 Fall | Flannery Lab | Engineered Adeno-Associated Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy in the Retina |
| Michele Insanally | 2011 Fall | Bao Lab | Development of complex sound representations in the primary auditory cortex |
| Heesoo Kim | 2011 Fall | Bao Lab | Development and Plasticity in the Primary Auditory Cortex |
| Elizabeth Kirby | 2011 Fall | Kaufer Lab | Stress effects on adult hippocampal neurogenesis and sexual reproductive function |
| Hania Köver | 2011 Fall | Bao Lab | Plasticity And Perception In Primary Auditory Cortex |
| Chung-hay Luk | 2011 Fall | Wallis Lab | Encoding externally and internally accredited value in prefrontal cortex |
| John Long | 2011 Spring | Carmena Lab | An Inquiry into the Neaural Correlates of Learning Behavior in the rat |
| Elizabeth Mormino | 2011 Spring | Jagust Lab | Neural Effects of Beta Amyloid in Normal Aging |
| Grant K. Kauwe | 2010 Fall | Isacoff Lab | Short-term and long-term control of synaptic strength by light activatable glutamate receptors at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction |
| Antonio Lara | 2010 Fall | Wallis Lab | On Working Memory: Its organization and capacity limits |
| Marta Soden | 2010 Fall | Chen Lab | Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Local Protein Translation During Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity |
| Tara Tracy | 2010 Fall | Chen Lab | Single Nanowire Probe for Single Cell Endoscopy and Sensing |
| Matthew Baggott | 2010 Spring | Robertson Lab | Other Times I Can Barely See: The Effects of Hallucinogens on Vision and Attention |
| Luisa Cacheaux | 2010 Spring | Kaufer Lab | A Novel Role for TGF-Beta Signaling in Epileptogenesis |
| Emily Jacobs | 2010 Spring | D'Esposito Lab | Estrogen shapes dopamine-dependent cognitive processes: Implications for women?s health |
| Ariel Rokem | 2010 Spring | Silver Lab | Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning |
| John Schlerf | 2010 Spring | Ivry Lab | The Cerebellum and Motor Learning |
| Lavi Secundo | 2010 Spring | Knight Lab | Analysis of Neural Activity in Human Motor Cortex - towards Brain Machine Interface System |
| Bradley Voytek | 2010 Spring | Knight Lab | Frontal and Basal Ganglia Contributions to Memory and Attention |
| Gautam Agarwal | 2009 Fall | Isacoff Lab | Heterogeneity in Drosophila Signaling Systems |
| Charles Cadieu | 2009 Fall | Olshausen Lab | Probabilistic Models of Phase Variables for Visual Representation and Neural Dynamics |
| Chenmei Chen | 2009 Fall | Dan Lab | Circuitry Underlying Response Properties of Neurons in the Primary Visual Cortex: Spatiotemporal Receptive Field of Synaptic Inputs |
| Michael Goard | 2009 Fall | Dan Lab | State-dependent cortical processing: Cholinergic modulation of visual responses |
| Hui Lu | 2009 Fall | Poo Lab | Cocaine-induced Modification of Synaptic Plasticity in Rat Medial Prefrontal Cortex |
| Lei Shi | 2009 Fall | Griffiths Lab | Hierarchical Bayesian inference in the brain: psychological models and neural implementation |
| Ryan Canolty | 2009 Spring | Knight Lab | Using neuronal oscillations to investigate large-scale brain networks |
| Sundari Chetty | 2009 Spring | Kaufer Lab | Molecular Mechanisms of the Stress Response and Adult Neurogenesis |
| Elena Allen | 2008 Fall | Freeman Lab | Explorations of the Function of the Central Visual Pathway with Visual and Electrical Stimulation |
| Annaliese Beery | 2008 Fall | Zucker Lab | Neuroendocrinology of affiliative behavior in group-living rodents |
| Brian Pasley | 2008 Fall | Freeman Lab | Neurovascular Coupling in Brain Imaging and Brain Stimulation |
| Noopur Amin | 2008 Spring | Theunissen Lab | Listening to Song: How the Auditory System of Songbirds Processes Natural Sounds |
| Cathrine Dam | 2008 Spring | Knight Lab | The Effects of Aging and Frontal Lobe Damage on Emotional Processing |
| Christina Karns | 2008 Spring | Knight Lab | Multisensory Integration and Attention |
| Brian Miller | 2008 Spring | D'Esposito Lab | Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Component Operations in Memory: A Multi-Methodological Approach |
| Chun-Liang Pan | 2008 Spring | Garriga Lab | Regulation of Neuronal Development by Wnt Signaling In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans |
| Natalia Caporale | 2007 Fall | Dan Lab | Plasticity and Learning in the Rodent Visual System |
| Robin Ball | 2007 Spring | Isacoff Lab | Regulation of synaptic strength at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction |
| Aubrey Gilbert | 2007 Spring | Ivry Lab | Lateralized effects of languag on perception |
| Joel Mainland | 2006 Spring | Sobel Lab | Perceptual Effects of Sniffing and Neural Mechanisms of Control |
| Thomas Muench | 2005 Spring | Werblin Lab | Starburst Amacrine Cells in the Mammalian Retina: Synaptic Interactions and Their Role in Directional Selectivity |