Studying the brain
My path has run from whiskers to monkeys to memory: imaging how touch spreads across rat cortex, helping bring optogenetics to primates, and recording hundreds of hippocampal neurons at once to watch rats replay paths they're about to take.
Now · Hippocampus, memory and planning
PhD with Eva Pastalkova (Janelia / U. Chicago, 2012–18) · Postdoc with Albert Lee & Sandro Romani (Janelia, 2018–23; HHMI / BIDMC, 2023–)
Deciphering hippocampal place codes in weak theta rhythms
Low-latency extracellular spike assignment for high-density electrodes at single-neuron resolution
Context dependent activity in rat hippocampus during performance of a three arm delayed sequence task
Oscillatory patterns in hippocampus under light and deep isoflurane anesthesia closely mirror prominent brain states in awake animals
Theta sequences are essential for internally generated hippocampal firing fields
Then · Optogenetics and imaging in primates
Research assistant with Anna Roe (Vanderbilt, 2009–12)
Optogenetics through windows on the brain in the nonhuman primate
Before · Rat barrel cortex
BA with Ford Ebner, then Anna Roe's lab (Vanderbilt, 2007–12)
Voltage-sensitive dye imaging reveals shifting spatiotemporal spread of whisker-induced activity in rat barrel cortex
