MBB has selected its Mary Gordon Roberts Thesis Fellows for summer 2023. These undergraduates will be conducting senior thesis research this summer, and stipendiary fellowships include grants to enable this research. Support for these fellowships have been provided by Mary Gordon Roberts, the Gordon family, and the Office of the President and Provost. We congratulate our 2023 Fellows, listed below with concentration, project title, and project advisor, and wish them a productive summer of research!
Melyssa Almeida (Neuroscience), Using Diffusion MRI to detect cerebellar microstructural differences in ASD (advisor Lauren O’Donnell, Medical School)
Joseph Brower (Neuroscience), Structural characterization of PKHD1L1 IPT domains 1-3 and their hearing loss causing mutations (advisor Artur Indzhylukian, Medical School)
Margaret Chiffer (Psychology), Dance/movement therapy as an accessible, low-verbal youth psychotherapy intervention (advisor John Weisz and Olivia Fitzpatrick, Psychology)
Sasha Constandse (MBB Secondary), Examining factors potential jurors consider in deciding a defendant with PTSD's criminal culpability (advisor Richard McNally, Psychology)
Jessie Dominguez (Neuroscience), Investigating neurodegeneration in glaucoma mediated by T-cell therapy (advisor Dong Feng Chen, Medical School)
Victoria Eisenhauer (MBB Secondary), Probing memory circuits using saccades and single neuron activity in humans (advisor Gabriel Kreiman, Medical School)
Kyra Fiber (Neuroscience), NF1 mutation effect on phenotype of GABAergic, glutamatergic organoids and assembloids (advisor Rakesh Karmacharya, Medical School)
Sonya Ganeshram (Neuroscience), Neuroanatomical variation in working versus non-working canines (advisor Erin Hecht, Human Evolutionary Biology)
Hannah Hepner (Neuroscience), Patterns and phenotypes: A qualitative study of pediatric epilepsy based on identified genes (advisor Annapurna Poduri, Medical School)
Jessica Leff (Neuroscience), Investigating the structural and functional impact of VIP interneurons on neurodevelopment (advisor Takao Hensch, FAS/Molecular and Cellular Biology & Medical School)
Katerina Nasto (Neuroscience), Home-based Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for the treatment of ADHD (advisor Joan Camprodon, Medical School)
Deborah Obiajulu (Neuroscience), Autism Spectrum Disorder development and reward processing (advisor Charles Nelson, Medical School)
Kristina Pema (Neuroscience), Understanding the association between financial insufficiency and adversity (advisor Martin Teicher, Medical School)
Nicole Rychagov (Neuroscience), Gyrification abnormalities across psychotic disorders: A B-SNIP study (advisor Elizabetta Del Re, Medical School)
Ryan Swardstrom (Human Evolutionary Biology), A stereological investigation of cells producing vasopressin & oxytocin in tame and aggressive foxes (advisor Erin Hecht, Human Evolutionary Biology)
Anuksha Wickramasinghe (Neuroscience), Investigating the role of GI-innervating sensory neurons in autism-related GI dysfunction (advisor Lauren Orefice, Medical School)
Chloe Wilson (Neuroscience), Association between sleep quality and connectivity in undernourished toddlers using fNIRS (advisor Charles Nelson, Medical School)
Monica Zheng (Neuroscience), Exploring electrical hyperexcitability in an inducible brain organoid model of Alzheimer’s Disease (advisor Doo Yeon Kim, Medical School)