Congratulations to the class of 2023 from the Carney Institute for Brain Science. The future is in good hands.

The following students are graduating in one of Carney's eight allied graduate programs. Dissertation titles are in italics. The omega indicates graduation in February 2023 or October 2022.

Aarit Ahuja Ω
Neuroscience
Visual Simulation in the Primate Brain

Seth Akers-Campbell Ω
Neuroscience
Cortical Dynamics for Active Vision

Anusha Baker Allawala
Biomedical Engineering
Network Dynamics of Cognitive Control and Mood during Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression

Matthew Armin Boehm Ω
Neuroscience
Advancing Transgenic Neuromodulation Tools with Translational Positron Emission Tomography Applications

Ryan William Castro Ω
Neuroscience
Cellular and Molecular Factors in the Spinal Cord That Impair Mobility during Aging

Jamie L. Catalano Ω
Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology
Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Substance Use Disorders

Dmitrijs Celinskis Ω
Biomedical Engineering
Multi-Site and Multi-Model Imaging Methods for Studying Spinal, Brain, and Vascular Dynamics

Dallece Elena Curley
Neuroscience
The Impact of Acute △9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on the Alcohol-Induced Inflammatory Response

Alexandra Marie D'Ordine
Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry
Identification and Characterization of Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Endonuclease Encoded by LINE-1 Retrotransposon

Alexander Fengler Ω
Cognitive Science
Likelihood Approximations for Bayesian Analysis of Sequential Sampling Models

Lauren Ann Fish Ω
Neuroscience
The MuSK-BMP Pathway: A Novel Regulator of Synaptic Excitation and the Myonuclear Transcriptome

Claire Gao Ω
Neuroscience
Identification of Novel Neuronal Subpopulations in the Paraventricular Nucleus of the Thalamus

Lakshmi Narasimhan Govindarajan Ω
Cognitive Science
Attractor Dynamics in Large Scale Recurrent Neural Networks

Kaitlyn Hajrije Hajdarovic
Neuroscience
Single Cell Analysis of the Aging Female Hypothalamus

Kathleen Beth Huntzicker Ω
Neuroscience
A Novel Role for Adult Neurogenesis in a Two-Armed Bandit Reversal Learning Task

Jang-Hoon Lee
Biomedical Engineering
Investigating Long-Term, Progressive Cerebrovascular Alterations Using Optical Coherence Tomography in Alzheimer's Disease

Alexander Ian More
Neuroscience
Diverse Behavioral Representation by Neocortical PV Interneuron Dynamics Converges between Sl and V1

Yuliya Nemtsova Ω
Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry
Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Drosophila Knock-In Model of ALS: Early Onset in Sensory Neurons and Their Genetic Suppression

Kelsey Ryan Nickerson
Neuroscience
Novel Signaling Interactions for Axon Guidance through DCC Family Receptors

Carin Madeline Papendorp
Neuroscience
Neurodevelopmental Phenotyping of Humans and Rodents with Mutations in ASH1L

Daniel Nelson Scott Ω
Cognitive Science
Credit Assignment by Three-Factor Plasticity

Danielle Dolores Sliva
Neuroscience
An Investigation of Cortical Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation and Their Causal Role in the Modulation of Somatosensory Perception

Meghan K. Willcoxon
Cognitive Science
Can You Follow Your Friends? Effects of Ensemble Averaging, Attention, and Grouping When Following a Crowd

James Paul Wilmott III Ω
Cognitive Science
Sensorimotor Learning of Depth Estimation for Perception and Action

Nadira del Rosario Yusif Rodriguez Ω
Neuroscience
The Neural Representation of Abstract Visual Sequences