#  MBB Theses, Class of 2021 

 



  
  
Isabella Beckett (Neuroscience), Molecular Mechanisms Mediating the Effect of Fever on Social Behavior in Mice (advisor Catherine Dulac, Molecular and Cellular Biology/FAS)  
  
**Ashley Cooper (Neuroscience), Racism’s Health Harm on Black Youth Mental Health: From (Neuro)Scientific Orthodoxy to Neuroscience as a Vessel of Visibility (advisors Marisa Silveri, HMS & Byron Good, Anthropology/FAS)**  
  
**William Drew (Computer Science), Precomputed Human Connectome for Brain Lesion Network Mapping, Lesion Segmentation, and Predictive Modeling of Stroke Symptom (Michael Fox, HMS)**  
  
**Emmanuel Garrison-Hooks (Neuroscience), Mouse Foraging Behavior in a Dynamic Virtual Environment (advisor Naoshige Uchida, Molecular and Cellular Biology/FAS)**  
  
**Jonathan Garzon (Neuroscience), Utilizing a novel naturalistic paradigm to systematically assess social need in WT and ASD mice (advisor Catherine Dulac, Molecular and Cellular Biology/FAS)**  
  
**Debolina Ghosh (Neuroscience), Investigating the Role of Klf9 in the Division Pattern and Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells in the Adult Hippocampus (advisor Amar Sahay, HMS)**  
  
**Kristen Gilyard (Neuroscience), The Implicit Learning Processes in Young Adults during Artificial Grammar Learning Tasks (advisor Yael Arbel, HMS)**  
  
**Joshua Glauser (Neuroscience), Neural Measures of Social Attention as an Indicator of Communication and Social Development in Infants at-risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder (advisor Carol Wilkinson, HMS)**  
  
**Daniella Gomez-Ochoa (Neuroscience), The effect of parental monitoring on epigenetic age and CRP levels among young adults in the ALSPAC cohort (advisors Erin Dunn, HMS & Alexandre Lussier, HMS)**  
  
**Catherine Ho (Neuroscience MBB), Aging, Episodic Retrieval, and Metacognition during Everyday Problem Solving (advisor Daniel Schacter, Psychology/FAS)**  
  
**Helen Huang (Computer Science), The Net Work of Networks: The Effect of Immersion on Analyzing Network Diagrams (advisor Hanspeter Pfister, Computer Science/SEAS/FAS)**  
  
**Stacy Jo (Human Evolutionary Biology), Voluntary pitch control: An experimental study of pitch matching in domestic dog howling (advisor Erin Hecht, Human Evolutionary Biology/FAS)**  
  
**Emily Johns (Neuroscience), An Analysis of the Neural Correlates of Psychosis: From Antiquity to Modern Research (advisors Martha Shenton, Psychology/FAS & Mark Schiefsky, Classics/FAS)**  
  
**Ahan Malhotra (Computer Science), Improving API Reference Documentation: A Cognitivist Approach to Design and Evaluation (advisor Elena Glassman, Computer Science/SEAS/FAS)**  
  
**Kira Medish (History and Science), What Lies Behind Our Eyes: Technological, Epistemic and Ethical Challenges of Lie Detection (advisor Vi Le, History of Science/FAS)**  
  
**Claire Millett (Neuroscience), Calcium Signaling in Schizophrenia: Exploring the Role of CACNA1C in Human Synaptogenesis with High-Throughput Imaging (advisor Kevin Eggan, Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology/FAS)**   
  
Kevin Ogonuwe (Neuroscience), The Marginalized Mind in Crisis: Racism-Related Adversity Alters Neurobehavioral Response to Threat and Portends Risk of Internalizing Psychopathology (advisors Kate McLaughlin, Psychology/FAS & Alexander Rodman, Psychology/FAS)  
  
Ifedayo Omotunde (Neuroscience), Effect of SRGAP2 Knockout on Temporal Properties of Critical Periods in Visual, Auditory, and Anterior Cingulate Cortices (advisor Takao Hensch, Molecular and Cellular Biology/FAS)  
  
Paulina Piwowarczyk (Neuroscience), Predictability and detectability affect processing of syntactic category violations: An EEG study (advisor Jesse Snedeker, Psychology/FAS)  
  
Nivedita Ravi, Neuroscience), The Modern Infant Listening Subject: Examining White Matter Organization, Music Environment, and Listening in Early Childhood (advisors Nadine Gaab, GSE & Suzannah Clark, Music/FAS)  
  
Vanessa Roser (Neuroscience), Towards a Neural Mechanism of Associative Learning: Phasic Dopamine Activity Shifts from Rewards to Cues during Conditioning (advisor Naoshige Uchida, Molecular and Cellular Biology/FAS)  
  
Aba Sam (Neuroscience), The Fever Effect: Behavioral Changes Induced by Fever in Autistic Mouse Model CNTNAP2-/- (advisor Catherine Dulac, Molecular and Cellular Biology/FAS)  
  
Isabella Shaw (Neuroscience), Hippocampal Correlations: A Fine-Scale, Trial-Specific Investigation of the Subcortical Brain and Distributed Cortical Networks Within Individuals (advisor Randy Buckner, Psychology/FAS)  
  
Taylor Shirtliff-Hinds (Neuroscience), Troublesome Teenagers: Developing an Experimental Paradigm to Quantify Socially Mediated Alcohol Consumption in Juvenile Mus musculus (advisor Catherine Dulac, Molecular and Cellular Biology/FAS)  
  
Zoi Urban (Neuroscience), Mapping the Emotional Mind: Investigating the Fornix Using Diffusion MRI-Based Tractography Techniques (advisor Anastasia Yendiki, HMS)  
  
Karina Nicole Walter (History and Science), "Help Wanted:" AI Hiring Tools and the Future of Diversity in the Workplace in Corporate, Media, and Activist Discourse (advisor (advisor Meg Perret, History of Science & Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality/FAS)