Defne Altan, Neurobiology, Novel biomarkers for visceral and liver fat: Establishing a framework for testing the role of ectopic fat in cognitive impairment (advisor Bruce Kristal, HMS)
Mia Charifson, Human Evolutionary Biology, Learning transfer in adolescence: The effects of previous learning on later cognitive control (advisor Leah Somerville, Psychology/FAS)
Andrea Colon-Perez, Neurobiology, The effects of family history and home literacy environment on cortical brain structures in pre-reading age children (advisor Nadine Gaab, HMS/GSE)
Lucas Conti, Neurobiology, A novel microdialysis reporter illuminates genetic expression of the dopamine transporter in the brain of awake, free-moving rats (advisor Barak Caine, HMS)
Melanie Fu, Neurobiology, Autonomic and brain activity concordance in patient/clinician dyads: A hyperscan fMRI study (advisor Vitaly Napadow, HMS)
Waverly He, Neurobiology, Characterizing the morphology and interactions of glia in the developing cerebellum (advisor Jeff Lichtman, Molecular and Cellular Biology/FAS)
Norma Hylton, Neurobiology, Elucidating the therapeutic benefits of docosahexaenoic acid for major depressive disorder in human iPSC-derived neuronal cell models (advisor Stephen Haggarty, HMS)
Ellery Jones, Neurobiology, Investigation of altered neural response variability as a marker of disordered neural development in children with 16p11.2 copy number variants (advisors April Levin, HMS & Charles Nelson, HMS and GSE)
Rebecca Krane, History and Science, From education to segregation: Isaac Newton Kerlin and the Pennsylvania Training School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Children 1853-1893 (advisor Allan Brandt, History of Science/FAS and HMS)
Allura Landsberg, Neurobiology, Resting EEG activity as predictor of treatment response in depressed adolescents (advisor Randy Auerbach, HMS and Columbia)
Jessie Laurore, History and Science, Bridging the gap: African-American women’s activism around mental health in the 1950s to 1980s (advisor Miriam Rich, History of Science/FAS)
Emerson Lee, Neurobiology, A functional genetic screen in Drosophila on proteasome-modulated tau toxicity (advisor Mel Feany, HMS)
Yuhui Liu, Computer Science, Neural network models for hate speech classification in tweets (advisors Stuart Shieber, Computer Science/FAS // Yaron Singer, Computer Science/FAS)
Eagon Meng, Neurobiology, Data visualization software for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and classification of intraoperative targets (advisor Todd Herrington, HMS)
Jerry Nelluvelil, Linguistics and Neurobiology, “All for one and some for all?” Using EEG and the N400 response to track online scalar implicature calculation in adults (advisor Jesse Snedeker, Psychology/FAS)
Harry Newman-Plotnick, Neurobiology, ZAP ZAP! An investigation into the capacities and neural loci of visual short term memory and visual manipulation through the use of transcranial direct current stimulation (advisor George Alvarez, Psychology/FAS)
Isabel O’Sullivan, Neurobiology, Investigating the relationship between self-punishment, self-criticism, the experience of pain, and non-suicidal self-injury (advisor Jill Hooley, Psychology/FAS)
Daniel Pohl, Neurobiology, Neural and behavioral effects of an olfactory masking agent (advisor Venkatesh Murthy, Molecular and Cellular Biology/FAS)
Zarin Rahman, Neurobiology, Impact of maternal depression on the relationship between EEG and behavioral inhibition through the first three years of life (advisor Charles Nelson, HMS and GSE)
Anna Riley-Shepard, Psychology, Working hard or hardly working: Attentional effort and efficiency in expert dancers (advisor George Alvarez, Psychology/FAS)
Raahil Sha, Computer Science, Efficient feature alignment-based localization of 3D objects within as single-viewpoint scene through intelligent point cloud resampling (advisor Thouis Jones/Broad Institute)
Wynne Stagnaro, Neurobiology, Lynx1 enables attentional suppression under sleep need (advisor Takao Hensch, Molecular and Cellular Biology/FAS and HMS)
Lauren Sweetland-Martin, Neurobiology, Patterns of cortical metabolism and their association with longitudinal neurodegeneration in the three clinical variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia (advisors Laura Magnotti, Neurobiology/FAS & Jessica Collins, HMS)
Yixuan Tong, Neurobiology, A skilled manipulandum-based task for motor learning in mice (advisors Naoshige Uchida, Molecular and Cellular Biology/FAS & Mackenzie Mathis, Rowland Institute)