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Amrita Singh
Johns Hopkins University
Lab: Carsen Stringer
Thesis: In vivo voltage imaging during behavior combined with transcriptomics enables dissection of interneuron types in the mouse motor cortex
Graduation Year: 2023
   

Adithya Rajagopalan
Johns Hopkins University
Lab: Glenn Turner
Thesis: Fruitflies as a model system to expand theories about how brains make decisions in the face of uncertainty
Graduation Year: 2023
   
Andrew Champion
University of Cambridge
Lab: Albert Cardona
Thesis: Augmenting Wiring Diagrams of Neural Circuits with Activity in Larval Drosophila
Graduation Year: 2021
   
Chongxi Lai
University of Cambridge
Lab: Tim Harris
Thesis: A Neural Signal Processor for Low-Latency Spike Inference
Graduation Year: 2020
   
Davis Bennett
University of Chicago
Lab: Misha Ahrens
Thesis: Structure and function of astroglia in larval zebrafish
Graduation Year: 2019
   
Maksim Manakov
Johns Hopkins University
Lab: Alla Karpova
Thesis: Action sequencing by rats
Graduation Year: 2019
   
Matt Isaacson
University of Cambridge
Lab: Michael Reiser
Thesis: Using new tools to study the neural mechanisms of sensation: song pattern recognition in locusts and translational motion vision in flies
Graduation Year: 2018
   
Brian Lustig
University of Chicago
Lab: Albert Lee / Eva Pastalkova
Thesis: Internally generated context dependent activity in the hippocampus during the delay of a three arm sequence memory task
Graduation Year: 2018
   
Martin Peek
University of Chicago
Lab: Gwyneth Card
Thesis: Control of escape behavior by decending neurons in drosophilamelanogaster
Graduation Year: 2018
   
James Phillips
University of Cambridge
Lab: Josh Dudman; Adam Hantman
Thesis: Graded lines: using genetic variation in neuronal projections to understand functional organization
Graduation Year: 2018
   
Javier Valdes-Aleman
University of Cambridge
Lab: Marta Zlatic
Thesis: Development of neuronal connectivity in the central nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster
Graduation Year: 2018
   
Zhihao Zheng
Johns Hopkins University
Lab: Davi Bock
Thesis Project: Structured Olfactory Input to the Mushroom Body in a Complete Electron Microscopy Volume of the Adult Drosophila Brain
Graduation Year: 2018
   
etheredge.jpeg Jack Etheredge
University of Cambridge
Lab: Jim Truman
Thesis Project: I use transcriptomics and genetic tools to determine the relevant gene expression differences for proper in vivo development between stem cell lineages of developing neurons in Drosophila ventral nervous system, the fruit fly equivalent of the spinal cord.
Graduation Year: 2017
   

Hannah Haberkern
University of Cambridge
Lab: Vivek Jayaraman
Thesis Project: I developed a 2D virtual reality setup to study landmark-guided navigation in head-fixed walking fruit flies. In the future, I am planning to combine this virtual reality setup with calcium imaging to probe neural dynamics in flies performing simple navigational tasks.
Graduation Year: 2017
   

Mai Morimoto
University of Cambridge
Lab: Michael Reiser
Thesis Project: I used probing selectivity and connectivity in Drosophila visual projection neurons using in vivo two-photon Ca2+ imaging.
Graduation Year: 2017
   

Mathias Saver
University of Chicago
Lab: Ulrike Heberlein
Thesis: Use of optogenetics to study the role of Neuropeptide F neurons in reward processing in Drosophila
Graduation Year: 2017
   
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Yinan Wan
University of Cambridge
Lab: Philipp Keller
Thesis Project: Study the emergence of patterned activity in embryonic zebrafish spinal cord by combining developmental and functional imaging in light-sheet microscopy
Graduation Year: 2017
   
z.wei.jpeg Ziqiang Wei
Johns Hopkins University
Lab: Shaul Druckmann
Thesis Project: Statistical models of neural activity 
Graduation Year: 2017
   
Zhen Fang Huang Cao 
University of Cambridge
Lab: Scott Sternson
Thesis: Neuronal circuits and reinforcement mechanisms underlying feeding behaviour
Graduation Year: 2015
   

Barrett Pfeiffer
University of Cambridge
Lab: Gerry Rubin
Thesis: Genetic dissection of neural circuits: From cells to synapses
Graduation Year: 2015
   

Dylan Rich
University of Cambridge
Lab: Albert Lee
Thesis: Place cell recruitment in novel environments
Graduation Year: 2015
   

Kelly Seagraves
University of Cambridge
Lab: Roian Egnor
Thesis: Lines of communication: Acoustic signalling and reception in a vertebrate and an invertebrate system
Graduation Year: 2015
   

Nicholas Sofroniew
University of Cambridge
Lab: Karel Svoboda
Thesis: Investigation of neural coding in mice using tactile virtual reality
Graduation Year: 2015
   

Arjun Bharioke
University of Cambridge
Lab: Mitya Chklovskii
Thesis: Neural implementations of sensory computations
Graduation Year: 2014
   

Jenny Brown
University of Cambridge
Lab: Josh Dudman
Thesis: Feedback motor control and the basal ganglia
Graduation Year: 2014
   
Mikhail Proskurin
Johns Hopkins University
Lab: Alla Karpova
Thesis: Changes in strategy prevalence as an organizing principle of anterior cingulate cortex ensamble dynamics
Graduation Year: 2012
   

Arbora Resulaj
University of Cambridge
Lab: Dima Rinberg
Thesis: Making and un-making your mind: Perceptual decisions of mice and men
Graduation Year: 2012
   
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John Tuthill
University of Chicago
Lab: Michael Reiser
Thesis: Behavioral and electrophysiological investigation of early visual processing in the fly
Graduation Year: 2012
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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