Stories of Women in Neuroscience
Episodes
Dr. Jessica Verpeut
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Nancy’s interview with Jessica who studies cerebellar influence on neural development and social and cognitive behaviors.It wa...
Dr. Anne Urai
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Caitlin's interview with Anne who studies how sensory information, internal states, and experience influence decision-making beh...
Dr. Caroline Palavicino-Maggio
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This interview features Megan K.’s interview with Caroline who studies neural circuits of aggression and their perturbations in neuropsychiatric and...
Dr. Kaela S. Singleton
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Nancy Padilla’s interview with Kaela who studies Menke's diesease and neurodevelopment using molecular approaches.
Dr. Rudy Behnia
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Leslie’s interview with Rudy who studies how the encoding of visual stimuli is affected by behavioral contextIn science, we of...
Dr. Sally Temple
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Catie’s interview with Sally who studies neural stem cells to design therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases
Dr. Katharina Schmack
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Caitlin’s interview with Katharina who studies the neural circuits and immunological processes underpinning psychosis
Dr. Joni Wallis
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Daniela interviews Joni, a professor in the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley who works to infer complex cognitive processes from neural activit...
Dr. Maya Opendak
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Nancy’s interview with Maya who studies how stress affects social behavior and the brain to identify targets for therapeutic i...
Dr. Marlene Cohen
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Chiaki’s interview with Dr. Marlene Cohen who studies how visual information is encoded in groups of neurons and used to guide...
Dr. Yasmin Escobedo Lozoya
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Following her philosophical curiosities into the realm of neuroscience, Dr. Yazmin Escobedo Lozoya has dedicated her career to answering questions lik...
Dr. Charlotte Stagg
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Charlotte Stagg has wanted to be a research scientist since the age of ten. After a slight detour into medicine, Charlotte was drawn back into neu...
Dr. Y Kate Hong
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout her career, Kate Hong has followed her curiosity to make amazing discoveries about how sensory information guides behavior in the brain. Af...
Dr. Farah Lubin
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Farah Lubin began her career as a neuroscientist just as the field was starting to wake up to the world of epigenetics and neuroimmunological techniqu...
Dr. Kara Marshall
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kara Marshall’s research interests and trajectory in neuroscience have made her a bit of an outsider. After all, she studies the peripheral nervous ...
Dr. Kia Nobre
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Kia Nobre left her family home in Brazil to go to university in Massachusetts, she could never have known where her passion for science would eve...
Dr. Kanaka Rajan
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a teenager in India, Kanaka Rajan decided early on that she wanted to be a scientist. After completing her undergraduate degree in engineering, Kan...
Dr. Indira Turney
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Indira Turney’s fascination with how the brain ages began when her grandmother was diagnosed with dementia. After growing up watching her grandm...
Dr. Lucina Uddin
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As an undergraduate, Lucina Uddin found her calling for studying the neural bases of self-cognition via a self-described “process of elimination.”...
Dr. Talia Lerner
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Talia Lerner knows that life as a scientist takes both dedication and risk. Talia began her career in science at Yale, where she was both brillian...
Dr. Aya Osman
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whether it’s walking down the runway or running an assay in the lab, Dr. Aya Osman lets her creativity thrive in her work. As a student in the UK, A...
Dr. Ann Hermundstad
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout her career, Dr. Ann Hermundstad has found ways to merge creativity and technical expertise to excel in science. As a child, she loved art, ...
Dr. Preeya Khanna
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nancy interviews Preeya, a Postdoctoral fellow at UCSF & UC Berkeley (joint program) who develops technologies that help with reh...
Dr. Letisha Wyatt
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Persistence, fastidiousness, and compassion. Dr. Letisha Wyatt’s career exemplifies how these qualities can fuel a successful trajectory in neurosci...
Dr. Carsen Stringer
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Carsen Stringer’s passion for science has manifested in a career rich with moments of creative brilliance. Starting as an undergraduate, she mus...
Dr. Maria Lehtinen
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Maria Lehtinen’s interest in human behavior was sparked during high school prompting her to want to become a psychiatrist. However, in college, ...
Dr. Gabrielle Gutierrez
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Gabrielle Gutierrez’s plan to become a physicist changed unexpectedly. While she was a physics major looking into PhD programs, she serendipitou...
Dr. Marina Picciotto
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rather than by focusing on a single outcome--landing a tenure-track position and starting a lab--Marina has navigated her career trajectory by followi...
Dr. Nancy Padilla Coreano
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy’s interest in the brain didn’t originate in a science classroom; it instead came from reading Oliver Sacks’s book Musicophilia and his oth...
Dr. Nanthia Suthana
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During her sophomore year at UC Berkeley, Dr. Nanthia Suthana was feeling lost and unsure of what she wanted to study. She made the brave decision to ...
Dr. Verónica de la Fuente
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Verónica de la Fuente’s passion for studying the brain was sparked over the course of a three-day neuroscience workshop at Universidad de Bueno...
Dr. Sheena Josselyn
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Sheena Josselyn’s five-year plan is simple: “Just keep going for five years!” Her vibrant personality and zest for neuroscience research are...
Dr. Deb Karhson
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Deb Karhson had grown up always asking questions and diving deeply into anything that interested her. In particular, her brother’s autism made h...
Dr. Athena Akrami
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Athena Akrami hadn’t heard of neuroscience until she came across an article on artificial neural networks as an undergraduate. She wondered whet...
Dr. Heidi Johansen-Berg
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Heidi Johansen-Berg’s interest in neuroscience was surprisingly realized through philosophy and psychology classes at university, where she indu...
Dr. Heather Snell
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Heather Snell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She didn’t initially love neuroscience in college and instead...
Dr. Moriel Zelikowsky
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Moriel Zelikowsky is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah. Though she started off wantin...
Dr. Brandy Tiernan
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Brandy Tiernan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Western Carolina University. She was destined to be a scientist fr...
Dr. Shreya Saxena
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shreya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida. Although her Master’s Degree is in Biomed...
Dr. Denise Cai
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Denise is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai whose interest in the brain ironical...
Dr. Asma Bashir
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Asma is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the UK Dementia Research Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland studying interactions between astrocytes and blood vessels ...
Dr. Alison Barth
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alison is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. Long before...
Dr. Anita Devineni
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anita is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute whose research looks at the interaction between tast...
Dr. Lisa Giocomo
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa is an Associate Professor at Stanford University who studies biophysical and network properties of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex. Although ...
Dr. Stacey Dutton
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Agnes Scott College whose research focuses on voltage-gated ion channels. In her inte...
Dr. Sana Suri
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sana is an Alzheimer ’s Society Research Fellow at the University of Oxford who uses multimodal neuroimaging techniques to study risk and resilience...
Dr. Anne Churchland
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Megan’s interview with Anne, who studies the neural circuits and computations underlying decision-making at Cold Spring Harbor...
Dr. Grace Lindsay
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Nancy’s interview with Grace, who creates data-inspired neural networks to model and study the visual cortex.Dr. Grace Lindsay...
Dr. Charisse Winston-Gray
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nancy chats with Charisse about her research at UCSD studying blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease as well as her perspecti...
Dr. Kerry Walker
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Cristiana chats with Kerry about her research at the University of Oxford on neural encoding of complex sound features in auditory co...
Dr. Susanne Ahmari
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Megan interviews Susanne who studies circuit mechanisms underlying compulsive behaviors in mouse models of OCD at the University of P...
Dr. Elizabeth Tunbridge
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Cristiana's interview with Liz who studies links between genes and brain dysfunction in psychiatric illness.
Dr. Renata Batista-Brito
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Daniela’s interview with Renata, who studies the role of interneurons in cortical sensory processing.
Dr. Elena Blanco-Suárez
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Catie’s interview with Elena who studies astrocytes and their influence on neuronal vulnerability to stroke.
Dr. Ream Al-Hasani
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Nancy’s interview with Ream who studies the neurocircuitry of addiction, stress, and pain.
Dr. Ali Ochoa Cohen
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Catie’s interview with Ali who studies the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying age-related changes in motivated learnin...
Dr. Gina Poe
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This interview features Megan’s interview with Gina who studies how sleep influences learning and memory consolidation.
Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Nancy’s interview with Millie who studies the postpartum brain and how early life events influence neuropsychiatric disorders.
Dr. Adrienne Fairhall
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Megan's interview with Adrienne who studies information processing algorithms underlying neural interactions.
Dr. Huda Akil
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Nancy’s interview with Huda who studies the neural mechanisms of pain and emotion.
Dr. Mae Guthman
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dakota’s interview with Mae, who studies how hormonal state changes affect the neurobiology of social behavior.
Dr. Beth Buffalo
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Megan’s interview with Beth who studies the neural mechanisms of learning and memory.
Dr. Kelly Seagraves
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dakota’s interview with Kelly who uses computational methods to study the neural correlates of observational learning.
Dr. Dayu Lin
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Megan’s interview with Dayu who studies the generation and modulation of social behaviors.
Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Nancy’s interview with Bianca who studies how experience can impact neurobiology and behavior.
Dr. Kay Tye
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Nancy’s interview with Kay who studies the neural circuits underlying motivated behaviors.
Dr. Brenda Bloodgood
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Catie’s interview with Brenda who studies how brain circuitry changes in response to experience.
Dr. Wendy Campana
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Catie’s interview with Wendy who studies the cellular and molecular responses to peripheral nerve injury, focusing on Schwann ...
Dr. Julie Siegenthaler
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Catie’s interview with Julie who studies the interaction between the brain, the meninges, and the brain vasculature.
Dr. Jess Cardin
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Megan’s interview with Jess who studies how neurons in the cortex act flexibly across different behavioral states.
Dr. Marie Blanchette
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Catie’s interview with Marie, who studies regional heterogeneity at the blood-brain barrier and its implications in health and...
Dr. Ashley Juavinett
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Megan’s interview with Ashley who studies and writes about education and careers in the field of neuroscience.
Dr. Lindsey Glickfeld
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Megan’s interview with Lindsey who studies how the brain processes and uses complex visual information.
Dr. Tina Gremel
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Megan's interview with Tina who studies processes underlying decision-making and how decisions become actions.
Dr. Edmarie Guzmán-Vélez
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Nancy’s interview with Edmarie who studies early biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease in a population with genetic early-onset ...
Dr. Austen Sitko
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Nancy's interview with Austen who studies auditory circuit development, focusing on projections from the brainstem to the cochle...
Dr. Erin Calipari
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Nancy’s interview with Erin who studies neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms underlying adaptive and maladaptive behavior...
Dr. Claudia Lugo-Candelas
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Nancy’s interview with Claudia who studies how prenatal factors affect brain development in health and disease.