Lab Alumni

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  Brenda Nguyen '19 (Fall 2016 - Spring 2017) Neuroscience major. Brenda worked on image analysis of HVC to measure neurogenesis after sequential learning experiences.

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  Rebecca Leu '19 (mid-Fall 2015 - Spring 2017) Prospective Neuroscience major. Rebecca was involved in a longitudinal fMRI project, investigating how zebra finch brains change during the song learning process.

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  Kethu Manokaran '18 (Fall 2015 - Spring 2017) Neuroscience major and South Asia Studies minor. Kethu worked on the data analysis component of the fMRI project and developed group analysis protocols.

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  Rebecca Jennings '17 (Spring 2015 - Spring 2017) Biology major. Rebecca had been involved in several projects, but also investigated new neuron recruitment in HVC with a sequential learning paradigm.

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  Julia Lord '07 (Summer 2015 - Spring 2017) Biological Sciences major and Philosophy minor. Julia was the lab's Research Technician and primarily worked on the NCM Inhibition project and helped facilitate other projects as needed.

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  Shivani Dayal '18 (Fall 2015 - Spring 2016) Neuroscience major and Health and Society minor. Shivani is using electron microscopy and 3D software programs to investigate changes in synaptic curvature in Zebra finches after song learning.

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  Leila Elabbady '16 (Fall 2014 - Spring 2016). Neuroscience major. Leila is currently working as a research associate for the Synapse Biology team at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

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  Leah Hobert '18 (Fall 2015 - Spring 2016) Neuroscience major. Leah has been working with electron microscopy data to make 3D reconstructions of multiple synapse boutons, and is taking length and width measurements of the reconstructed presynaptic boutons.

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  Amy Hsu '19 (mid-Fall 2015 - Spring 2016) prospective Neuroscience major. Amy is working on reconstructing MSBs of zebra finch brains and reading literature about a possible project topic.

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  Houda Khaled '16 (Fall 2012 - Spring 2016). Biochemistry major. Houda is currently working as a research specialist in the lab of Dr. Ted Abel at the University of Pennsylvania.

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  Rie Maeda '18 (Fall 2014 - Spring 2016). Neuroscience major. Rie is currently working as a research assistant in the lab of Dr. Clifford Woolf at Boston Children's Hospital.

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  Stela Petkova '16 (Fall 2013 - Spring 2016). Neuroscience major, Anthropology minor. Stela is currently a Ph.D. candidate in neuroscience at the University of California, Davis.

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  Elizabeth (Liz) Olsen '16 (Spring 2014 - Fall 2016). Neuroscience & French double major. This semester, Liz is conducting research in health metrics and evaluation with the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement in Cambridge, MA.

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  Hande Piristine '14 (June 2014 - June 2015) Lab manager/technician. Neuroscience major. Hande is an MD/PhD candidate at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

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  Sahitya Raja '15 (Spring 2012 - Spring 2015). Biological Sciences major, Women's and Gender Studies minor. Sahitya is currently a candidate for the MMSc in Immunology at Harvard Medical School.

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  Sarah Zemlok '14 (Spring 2012 - Spring 2014). Chemistry major. Sarah is a Scientist at Nano Terra Inc.

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  Napim Chirathivat '15 (Fall 2012 - Fall 2014). Neuroscience major. Napim is currently a student at Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.

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  Tenzin Choetso '16 (Summer 2014). Electrical and Computer Engineering major. Tenzin is currently a senior at Olin College of engineering.

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  Savannah Hauge '16 (Summer 2013). Philosophy major. Savannah will be spending next year with the Episcopal Service Corps's Boston program and is excited to find out what the (as yet blissfully undetermined) future holds.

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  Catherine Ho '16 (Summer 2013). Neuroscience major, Chemistry minor. Hoping to find work in Boston and apply to medical school next year.

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  Kaitlin Bohon '14 (Fall 2011 - Spring 2013). Neuroscience major, Computer Science minor. Kaitlin is currently working in Boston as a Business Intelligence Analyst at Wayfair.

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  Sima Lotfi '13 (Fall 2011 - Spring 2013). Neuroscience & Philosophy double major. Sima is currently a research technician at the Systems Neuroscience Institute at the University of Pittsburgh and is applying for medical school.

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  Milena Radoman '15 (Spring 2012 - Spring 2013). Neuroscience major. Sophomore Early Research Program Fellow. Currently she is a clinical research coordinator and a programmer for the MGH Center for Addiction Medicine, where she is using fMRI to study neuroscience underlying nicotine addiction and cognitive abilities of marijuana users with or without a severe mental illness.