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Stories of Women in Neuroscience

A collection of profiles highlighting the stories of Women in Neuroscience. In depth interviews with neuroscientists about their research and career trajectory.

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00:44:59

Dr. Y Kate Hong

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2022/01/27

Throughout her career, Kate Hong has followed her curiosity to make amazing discoveries about how sensory information guides behavior in the brain. After finishing her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at Brown University, Kate worked as a research technician in labs in immunology and cancer biology. However, it wasn’t until she was working in a neuroscience lab at the Max Planck Institute in Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship that she fell in love with research. Subsequently, she applied for

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00:40:07

Dr. Farah Lubin

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/12/16

Farah Lubin began her career as a neuroscientist just as the field was starting to wake up to the world of epigenetics and neuroimmunological techniques. Armed with a background in immunology from her PhD at SUNY Binghamton, Farah turned her interests to understanding the brain. In her first postdoc with Dr. Anne Anderson at Baylor College of Medicine, Farah studied how transcription factors changed in disease states, specifically epilepsy. She used her second postdoc at the University of Alabama at

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00:48:30

Dr. Kara Marshall

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/12/02

Kara Marshall’s research interests and trajectory in neuroscience have made her a bit of an outsider. After all, she studies the peripheral nervous system. Kara did her PhD research in Dr. Ellen Lumpkin’s lab studying touch perception. However, partway through her thesis, the Lumpkin Lab moved from Baylor College of Medicine to Columbia University, where she had to redo her qualifying exams and start on a completely new project. Undeterred, she defended her dissertation and continued to study the

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00:50:21

Dr. Kia Nobre

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/11/18

When Kia Nobre left her family home in Brazil to go to university in Massachusetts, she could never have known where her passion for science would eventually take her. After falling in love with neuroscience in undergrad at Williams College, Kia ended up pursuing a PhD at Yale where she studied human language processing, long term potentiation in animal models, and even was able to work with some of the first fMRI data ever collected. In her two postdocs, she continued to use fMRI to study global

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00:46:36

Dr. Kanaka Rajan

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/11/03

As a teenager in India, Kanaka Rajan decided early on that she wanted to be a scientist. After completing her undergraduate degree in engineering, Kanaka pursued a PhD at Brandeis, stepping out of her math and theory-based comfort zone and diving into the deep end of experimental neuroscience in her rotations. She eventually returned to a more computational lab with Professor Larry Abbott, where she developed a neural network model of neural sensory dynamics. In her postdoctoral research at

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00:48:22

Dr. Indira Turney

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/10/21

Dr. Indira Turney’s fascination with how the brain ages began when her grandmother was diagnosed with dementia. After growing up watching her grandmother lose her memories, Indira decided to leave the small Caribbean island where she had spent her childhood and went to the University of the Virgin Islands to study psychology. There, she got involved in clinical research and was immediately engaged with how neuroimaging tools like MRI can be used to study the process of memory and the aging brain

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00:50:47

Dr. Lucina Uddin

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/10/07

As an undergraduate, Lucina Uddin found her calling for studying the neural bases of self-cognition via a self-described “process of elimination.” As a child of Bangladeshi immigrants, Lucina prized a career in medicine and started on the pre-med track. However, she found herself more engaged by questions of human intelligence and consciousness than excited by the path to medical school. With the guidance of a helpful mentor, Dr. Eran Zaidel, Lucina began her PhD at UCLA studying self-perception in

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00:49:51

Dr. Talia Lerner

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/09/23

Dr. Talia Lerner knows that life as a scientist takes both dedication and risk. Talia began her career in science at Yale, where she was both brilliant and shy, struggling to muster the courage to ask to join labs for undergraduate research experience. However, her courage paid off and led her to a senior thesis in biochemistry then a productive PhD studying synaptic plasticity in dopamine systems at UCSF. Following her passion for studying dopamine, Talia then completed a postdoc at Stanford where

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00:52:28

Dr. Aya Osman

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/09/09

Whether it’s walking down the runway or running an assay in the lab, Dr. Aya Osman lets her creativity thrive in her work. As a student in the UK, Aya followed her scientific curiosities through college and earned in biochemistry, all the while pursuing a modeling career. Ultimately she chose a career related to science, working in public health policy in England. However, she couldn’t quench her desire to do research and gave up her stable government job to begin her PhD at the University of Surrey

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01:23:59

Dr. Ann Hermundstad

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/08/26

Throughout her career, Dr. Ann Hermundstad has found ways to merge creativity and technical expertise to excel in science. As a child, she loved art, writing, and math, but without a clear career path into the more traditionally creative disciplines of writing and art, she decided to pursue an engineering degree at the Colorado School of Mines. In her engineering classes, she learned there was more to science than memorization. In fact, creative thinking was the foundation for the logical frameworks

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00:48:14

Dr. Preeya Khanna

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/07/08

In this episode, Nancy interviews Preeya, a Postdoctoral fellow at UCSF & UC Berkeley (joint program) who develops technologies that help with rehabilitation in disorders that affect the motor system.

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00:51:05

Dr. Letisha Wyatt

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/06/24

Persistence, fastidiousness, and compassion. Dr. Letisha Wyatt’s career exemplifies how these qualities can fuel a successful trajectory in neuroscience. As a first generation student and a Black woman, Letisha is no stranger to the obstacles encountered by many young scientists. After studying neurobiology as an undergraduate while working full-time to support herself, Letisha ventured into pharmaceutical research to gain more experience before her graduate studies. Through her PhD and postdoctoral

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01:10:49

Dr. Carsen Stringer

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/06/03

Dr. Carsen Stringer’s passion for science has manifested in a career rich with moments of creative brilliance. Starting as an undergraduate, she mused about the utility of chaotic systems to understand the vast neuronal networks in the brain, an insight she followed into her PhD at University College London. Her decision to combine computational approaches with behavioral experiments and large-scale recordings in rodents led to the discovery that behavioral states are multi-dimensional. This

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00:35:31

Dr. Maria Lehtinen

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/05/19

Dr. Maria Lehtinen’s interest in human behavior was sparked during high school prompting her to want to become a psychiatrist. However, in college, she found the current psychological theories very unsatisfying and wanted to instead understand the brain. She switched to the newly started neuroscience major and joined a neuroscience research lab. Towards the end of her undergraduate years, as she prepared to take the MCAT she reflected on how much she liked basic neuroscience research so she decided

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00:44:16

Dr. Gabrielle Gutierrez

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/05/06

Dr. Gabrielle Gutierrez’s plan to become a physicist changed unexpectedly. While she was a physics major looking into PhD programs, she serendipitously attended a neuroscience seminar where she discovered that physics can help us understand the brain. This experience marked the start of her career in theoretical neuroscience. During her PhD at Brandeis University, Gabrielle used a simple animal model, the crab, to learn about small and simple networks. For her postdoctoral training she decided to

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00:44:21

Dr. Marina Picciotto

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/04/22

Rather than by focusing on a single outcome--landing a tenure-track position and starting a lab--Marina has navigated her career trajectory by following her interests wherever they have led her. After completing a high-school internship in a science lab, Marina realized that she loved being at the bench and didn’t want to leave! This passion guided her journey through her Ph.D. studies at Rockefeller University and postdoctoral years abroad at Institut Pasteur. From there, Marina was able to build

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01:14:16

Dr. Nancy Padilla Coreano

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/04/07

Nancy’s interest in the brain didn’t originate in a science classroom; it instead came from reading Oliver Sacks’s book Musicophilia and his other essays about music and the brain. Following in Oliver Sacks’s footsteps as a neurologist, Nancy also decided to pursue neurology as an undergraduate. After joining a neuroscience lab, though, Nancy quickly fell in love with research and decided to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience instead. After studying the role of PFC circuitry in driving anxiety-like

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00:41:29

Dr. Nanthia Suthana

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/03/24

During her sophomore year at UC Berkeley, Dr. Nanthia Suthana was feeling lost and unsure of what she wanted to study. She made the brave decision to leave school and embark on a journey of self-discovery, determined to find her passion. For the first time in her life, Nanthia began reading for pleasure rather than school. After reading about famous figures in neuropsychology, her academic spark reignited and she returned to school to pursue neuroscience research at UCLA. Her newfound enthusiasm for

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Dr. Verónica de la Fuente

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/03/11

Dr. Verónica de la Fuente’s passion for studying the brain was sparked over the course of a three-day neuroscience workshop at Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) when she was an undergraduate, and that spark never faded. Upon her return from the workshop, Verónica immersed herself in neuroscience classes and began working in a neuroscience laboratory at UBA where she stayed to earn her Ph.D. As a graduate student, she studied the molecular mechanisms underlying memory consolidation and

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00:47:10

Dr. Sheena Josselyn

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/02/25

Dr. Sheena Josselyn’s five-year plan is simple: “Just keep going for five years!” Her vibrant personality and zest for neuroscience research are contagious, and her interview with Nancy highlights both her brilliance as a scientist and her warm sense of humor as a human being. She explains her early research stint working with rodents as a Ph.D. student and transitioning to clinical populations in her following three(!) postdoctoral experiences at the University of Toronto, Yale, and UCLA. After

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