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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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00:52:28

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

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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

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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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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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