 

#  MBB Class of 2020 

 





May 28, 2020

 

 

##  **Congratulations to the Mind Brain Behavior Class of 2020!**

 MBB seniors participated in a virtual poster session to share their research with fellow thesis writers. Poster titles are listed below.

 Special thanks to Lauren DiNicola and Maggie Kandel for leading the 2020 MBB thesis workshops!

 **Sopefoluwa Adeleye**, Neuroscience  
Probing Dysregulation of Early Endosomes and Lysosomes in Late Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells  
Advisor: Tracy Young-Pearse

 **Aafreen Azmi**, Computer Science  
Clustering Seizures to Find Groupings with Common Clinical Characteristics  
Advisor: Sydney Cash

 **Ellie Bernstein**, Neuroscience  
Cognitive Deficits are Not Associated with Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability in a Mouse Model of Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury  
Advisor: Michael Whalen

 **Channing Cimarusti**, Neurobiology  
Does Predictable Prosodic Timing Facilitate Spoken Language Processing in People with Aphasia?  
Advisors: Lauryn Zipse and Mark Eldaief

 **Anne Marie Crinnion**, Psychology  
Catch you on the flip side: Using reflections to understand visual processing of objects  
Advisor: Alfonso Caramazza

 **Christina Cruz**, Neuroscience  
[Serine Racemase Expression During Post-Natal Development and Involvement of SR-Expressing Neurons in Fear Extinction Learning](/file_url/624)  
Advisor: Laura Magnotti

 **Cameron Decker**, Neuroscience  
[Investigating the Relationship Between Behavioral Inhibition and Responses to Emotional Stimuli in Infancy: an ERP Study](/file_url/625)  
Advisor: Charles Nelson

 **Hart Fogel**, Neuroscience  
[Examining the Role of Parts in Object Recognition for Artificial Neural Networks](/file_url/626)  
Advisor: George Alvarez

 **Oliver George**, Neurobiology  
The Associations of Socioeconomic Status and Autism Spectrum Disorder with EEG Power in 12-Month-Old Infants  
Advisor: Charles Nelson

 **Natasha Gonzalez**, Philosophy  
Should We Pay People to be Healthy? A Principles-Based Framework for Evaluating the Ethics of Financial Incentive Programs in Healthcare  
Advisor: Gina Schouten

 **Rini (Sumona) Halder**, Computer Science  
[The Dangers of Algorithmic Autonomy: Efficient Machine Learning Models of Inductive Biases combined with the Strengths of Program Synthesis (PBE) to Combat Implicit Biases of the Brain](/file_url/627)  
Advisor: Elena Glassman

 **Terzah Annmarie Hill**, Neuroscience, Secondary in Art, Film, and Visual Studies (Studio)  
Stress-Dependent Olfactory Modulation in Larval Zebrafish  
Advisor: Florian Engert

 **Kelsey Ichikawa**, Neurobiology &amp; Philosophy  
[The Reward of Others’ Pain: The Morality of Schadenfreude and Neural Correlates of Latent Preferences for Out-Group Harm](/file_url/632)  
Advisors: Mina Cikara and Susanna Siegel  
Collaborator: William E. Moore

 **Christine Jou**, Computer Science  
Connecting Language Representations in Humans and Machines  
Advisors: Stuart Shieber and Samuel Gershman

 **Lourdes Kaufman**, Human Evolutionary Biology  
From Pleistocene Diets to Antiparkinsonian Drugs: An Examination of the Metabolism of Ingested L-dopa by the Human Enteric Microbiome  
Advisor: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Emily Balskus

 **Spencer Kim**, Neurobiology  
[The Role of the Ventral Striatum in Olfactory Learning and the Exceptional Ability of Olfactory Associations to Evoke Emotional Memories](/file_url/639)  
Advisor: Venkatesh Murthy

 **Jambay Kinley**, Computer Science

 **Taimur Kouser**, Neurobiology &amp; Philosophy  
Connectomics: An Analysis of Human Cortical Layer 1 &amp; Implications for Theory of Mind and Personal Identity  
Advisors: Jeff Lichtman and Cheryl Chen

 **Aaron Kruk**, Philosophy  
Kant in the Brain: What Neuroscience Tells us About Moral Worth  
Advisors: Meica Magnani and David Gray Grant

 **Dianne Lee**, Computer Science  
A Classy Affair: Modeling Course Enrollment Prediction  
Advisor: Jim Waldo

 **Chloe Li**, Neuroscience  
Examining links between music, emotion, and reading: An investigation of structural brain differences in school-aged children with and without musical training and dyslexia  
Advisors: Jennifer Zuk and Nadine Gaab

 **Olivia McGinnis**, Neuroscience  
[Physical Knowledge Arises from the Escape Behavior of Larval Zebrafish](/file_url/637)  
Advisors: Andrew Bolton and Florian Engert

 **Katherine Miclau**, Neurobiology  
[Selective Activation, Collective Suppression: Provisional Evidence for Broad Modulation of Large-Scale Networks from Within-Individual Analysis of the Default Netw](/file_url/631)ork  
Advisor: Randy Buckner

 **Miranda Mize**, Neurobiology  
[Neural Correlates of Over-Sensitivity to Negative Valence Expressions in Three-Year-Old Children](/file_url/636)  
Advisor: Charles Nelson

 **Philippe Noël**, Computer Science  
Integrating User Behavior in Interactive Streaming Bitrate Throttling  
Advisor: Minlan Yu

 **Nadeen H. Odeh**, Neuroscience  
Comparing patterns of cortical thickness between developmental prosopagnosics and typically-developed controls: A case where deficient face recognition performance is associated with thicker cortex  
Advisor: Joseph DeGutis

 **Linda Qin**, Computer Science  
[Breaking the Working Memory Barrier: Introducing a Novel Digital Tool to Improve Understanding of Mathematical Texts](/file_url/633)  
Advisors: Jim Waldo and Krzysztof Gajos

 **Emilė Radytė**, Neuroscience &amp; Social Anthropology  
[Reading the Mind: Representations of Self and Others in the Theory of Mind Network](/file_url/630)  
Advisors: Jason Mitchell and Nicholas H. Harkness

 **Daniel Ragheb**, Neurobiology &amp; Government  
[How Our Brains Vote: Neurobiological Differences Moderate the Impact of Sleep on Voter-Related Behavior](/file_url/629)  
Advisors: Josh Buckholtz and Aaron Watanabe

 **Maggie Reynolds**, Neuroscience, Secondary in Global Health and Health Policy  
[EEG Theta/Beta Ratios as an Index of how Early Institutionalization Impacts Externalizing Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits in Early Adolescence](/file_url/634)  
Advisors: Charles Nelson and Mark Wade

 **Emma Rogge**, Computer Science  
Coarse-to-Fine circular sequence alignment  
Advisor: Stuart Shieber

 **Teddy Sevilla**, Human Evolutionary Biology  
Reaching Out, Touching Me, Touching You: Reciprocal Grooming and the Cognitive Capacities Underlying Altruism in Olive Baboons  
Advisor: Isaac Schamberg

 **Aleeza Shakeel**, Neuroscience, Secondary in Global Health and Health Policy  
The Role of the Hippocampus in Dopamine Ramping During Spatial Navigation  
Advisor: Naoshige Uchida

 **Samantha Shao**, Neuroscience  
Caspase-3 Beyond Cell Death  
Advisors: Takao Hensch and Delma Caiati

 **Hayat Sherif**, Neuroscience  
The Neurobiological Effects of Intranasal Ketamine on Anxiety Circuitry in Patients with Fear of Harm Phenotype of Bipolar Disorder  
Advisor: Martin Teicher

 **Jason Sibrian**, Computer Science  
Sensitive Data? Now That's a Catch! The Psychology of Phishing  
Advisor: James Mickens

 **Rebecca Soilson**, Neuroscience, Global Health and Health Policy  
Disruption of Amyloid-beta Aggregates Using Targeted Magnetic Nanotherapy in a 3D Human Neural Cell Culture Model of Alzheimer’s Disease  
Advisor: Rudolph Tanzi

 **Matt Spence**, Neuroscience  
[The Neural Basis of the Effect of Future Simulation on False Episodic Memory](/file_url/635)  
Advisors: Aleea Devitt and Daniel Schacter

 **Konrad N. Urban**, Computer Science  
Interpretable and Comparable Measurement for Computational Ethology  
Advisor: Venkatesh Murthy

 **Diana Wang**, Neurobiology  
[Potential of Receptive Music Intervention on Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Resting-State fMRI Study](/file_url/628)  
Advisors: Psyche Loui and Maiya Geddes

 **Sara Wetzler**, History and Science, Secondary in Global Health and Health Policy  
What Faces Reveal: The Legacy of Hugh Diamond's Photographic Representations of Mental Illness  
Advisor: Christopher Rudeen

 **Samantha White**, Neuroscience  
[An Examination of How Anxiety Sensitivity Relates to PTSD Symptoms and Resting-State Functional Connectivity in a Trauma-Exposed Sample](/file_url/638)  
Advisor: Isabelle Rosso

 **Victor Yang**, Computer Science  
Applications of Granger Causality calculations to brain networks for efficient and accurate seizure focus identification via iEEGs  
Advisor: Joseph Madsen



 

 

 



 

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