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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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00:59:15

Dr. Deb Karhson

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/02/11

Dr. Deb Karhson had grown up always asking questions and diving deeply into anything that interested her. In particular, her brother’s autism made her wonder about atypical brain function and how she could improve his quality of life. Her boundless curiosity about the autistic brain sparked a trajectory of events that led Deb to join Dr. Edward Golob’s lab at Tulane during her Ph.D.. Rather than studying cognitive deficits in those with autism, though, she loved the idea of exploring audition, which

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01:10:39

Dr. Athena Akrami

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/01/28

Dr. Athena Akrami hadn’t heard of neuroscience until she came across an article on artificial neural networks as an undergraduate. She wondered whether she could build a brain herself--and went on to build the first brain-computer interface in her home country, Iran. Her subsequent years as a Computational Neuroscience Ph.D. student and postdoc were spent in Trieste, Italy, where she used attractor models and in vivo experimental techniques to elucidate the underpinnings of memory and perception

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00:55:26

Dr. Heidi Johansen-Berg

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2021/01/14

Dr. Heidi Johansen-Berg’s interest in neuroscience was surprisingly realized through philosophy and psychology classes at university, where she indulged her curiosity about human behavior and humanity’s fundamental questions. She eventually moved deeper into experimental psychology and empirical research, entering a Neurosciences Ph.D. program at Oxford University. During her graduate years, she used techniques including fMRI and TMS to better understand the brain regions underlying patients’

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00:42:20

Dr. Heather Snell

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/12/10

Dr. Heather Snell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She didn’t initially love neuroscience in college and instead went to graduate school to study cancer biology. However, after a fascinating rotation in a neuropharmacology lab and her subsequent thesis research studying the role of a GABA-A receptor in diabetic retinopathy, she came to fully love the brain. After meeting her future postdoctoral mentor during a summer research program, she realized that passion and

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00:30:47

Dr. Moriel Zelikowsky

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/11/26

Dr. Moriel Zelikowsky is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah. Though she started off wanting to study film as an undergraduate, she loved thinking about big questions about human cognition and soon gravitated toward a major in philosophy. After graduating with her B.A., she did her Ph.D. in psychology with the idea that experimental psychology might allow her to address these big philosophical questions in a more concrete way. Along the way,

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00:57:38

Dr. Brandy Tiernan

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/11/11

Dr. Brandy Tiernan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Western Carolina University. She was destined to be a scientist from a young age, where playtime involved designing and conducting her own little botany experiments and where she eagerly took on the role of research subject for her older sister who was studying psychology. Fast-forward to her post-college years, Brandy’s career ultimately came full circle; a few years after graduation, she shifted her focus from

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00:41:01

Dr. Shreya Saxena

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/10/28

Shreya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida. Although her Master’s Degree is in Biomedical Engineering and her Ph.D. is in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, make no mistake--Shreya is also a neuroscientist through and through. Throughout her career, from working as an undergraduate on the Blue Brain Project to her Ph.D. and postdoctoral work using control theory to study movement execution, Shreya has seamlessly married

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00:28:13

Dr. Denise Cai

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/10/14

Denise is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai whose interest in the brain ironically took hold as she was interviewing for law schools. When she realized she was more interested in how the brain makes decisions rather than the judicial implications of those decisions, she hopped on the Neuroscience train and never looked back. For her Ph.D. thesis at UCSD, she looked at the interplay between sleep, memory, and creativity in both

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00:40:01

Dr. Asma Bashir

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/09/30

Asma is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the UK Dementia Research Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland studying interactions between astrocytes and blood vessels in disease. In her interview with Catie, Asma shares her journey that has spanned multiple disciplines and three countries, including initially wanting to study psychology in college at Boston University and moving to Vancouver for her graduate research developing an improved mouse model of traumatic brain injury (TBI). While her graduate work had

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00:40:38

Dr. Alison Barth

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/09/16

Alison is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. Long before she established her lab seeking to understand mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity, though, she dabbled in a variety of experimental questions--anything that piqued her curiosity. Even at age 7 with a keen interest in ESP, she was designing experiments to test her “mind-reading” ability on her friends. As an undergraduate, she was drawn to

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00:52:13

Dr. Anita Devineni

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/09/03

Anita is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute whose research looks at the interaction between taste and smell in the fruit fly. In particular, she discovered that hungry fruit flies are attracted to acetic acid but averse to this same stimulus when they’re well-fed, suggesting that hunger can change the valence of a taste stimulus. Anita describes the path her research has taken throughout grad school and as a postdoc--both the ups and downs--and how

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00:31:21

Dr. Lisa Giocomo

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/08/19

Lisa is an Associate Professor at Stanford University who studies biophysical and network properties of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex. Although she hesitates to describe herself as a “card-carrying computational neuroscientist ”, Lisa has quite a bit of computational experience in her past. In her interview with Dakota, she reveals why grid cells are so incredibly interesting, and how this interest and her thirst for understanding led her all the way to Norway to study them experimentally and

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00:58:14

Dr. Stacey Dutton

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/08/12

Stacey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Agnes Scott College whose research focuses on voltage-gated ion channels. In her interview with Brielle, Stacey describes the incident that suddenly and dramatically launched her from the world of immunology to neuroscience, and more recently how her passion and curiosity again prompted her research focus to shift in a unique direction. She also candidly explains the tremendous obstacles she encountered along her journey, especially as

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00:26:47

Dr. Sana Suri

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/08/05

Sana is an Alzheimer ’s Society Research Fellow at the University of Oxford who uses multimodal neuroimaging techniques to study risk and resilience for cognitive decline in aging. In Cristiana’s interview with Sana, they discuss the many forms in which Sana’s passion for neuroscience has materialized: her postdoctoral research involving risk factors for developing dementia, how she almost left research to focus on growing her neuroscience blog, and her role as a science communicator informing

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00:32:52

Dr. Anne Churchland

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/07/22

This episode features Megan’s interview with Anne, who studies the neural circuits and computations underlying decision-making at Cold Spring Harbor (and will soon be moving her lab to the University of California - Los Angeles).

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00:41:08

Dr. Grace Lindsay

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/07/16

This episode features Nancy’s interview with Grace, who creates data-inspired neural networks to model and study the visual cortex.

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00:40:49

Dr. Charisse Winston-Gray

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/07/01

In this episode, Nancy chats with Charisse about her research at UCSD studying blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease as well as her perspective on mentorship and how she has gained strength from having an open mind.

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00:24:01

Dr. Kerry Walker

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/06/17

In this episode, Cristiana chats with Kerry about her research at the University of Oxford on neural encoding of complex sound features in auditory cortex.

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00:48:35

Dr. Susanne Ahmari

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/05/27

In this episode, Megan interviews Susanne who studies circuit mechanisms underlying compulsive behaviors in mouse models of OCD at the University of Pittsburgh.

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00:47:18

Dr. Elizabeth Tunbridge

Stories of Women in Neuroscience ·

2020/05/13

This episode features Cristiana's interview with Liz who studies links between genes and brain dysfunction in psychiatric illness.

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