Research

Hold your breath!

I’m excited to announce that I will be presenting a poster at Society for Neuroscience 2024 on the project I've been working on at the Voytek Lab. If you’re going to the conference, I would love to meet and talk science!

Abstract Title: Stimulus-evoked changes in aperiodic electrophysiological activity in macaque visual cortex (posterboard #AA10)
Session Title: Computational Tools: Analytical I
Presentation Time: Mon., Oct. 7, 2024 1 - 2 p.m.

My past research experiences have cemented my love for science and guided my trajectory to ask the questions I’m interested in answering today. Learn more about how each experience has defined me as a scientist below.

Undergraduate research with Dr. Brad Voytek

University of Califronia, San Diego

Analyzed open-source electrophysiological recordings of waveform features to decode the neural mechanisms of visual processing. Applied cutting-edge, time resolved spectral parameterization to study the temporal representation of sensory information in neural activity.
Keywords: electrophysiology, neural oscillations, vision

Undergraduate research with Dr. Kay Tye

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Applied multidisciplinary approaches such as optogenetics, immunohistochemistry and pose estimation to study how chronic and acute social isolation differentially modulate behavior and to explore dopamine dynamics in the medial prefrontal cortex during social contact following isolation.
Keywords: systems neuroscience, social isolation, dopamine

Summer internship with Dr. Mary Teena Joy

The Jackson Laboratory

Developed a pipeline to analyze cortex-wide in-vivo two-photon calcium imaging from a motor task in mice. Benchmarked Open-Source computational toolboxes for calcium imaging recordings to determine time-locked neuronal activity and task related changes in fluorescence.
Keywords: stroke, motor control, neural circuits

Undergraduate research with Dr. Olivier George

University of Califronia, San Diego

Analyzed neuronal activation following acute nicotine intake in nicotine self-administering animals. Characterized cocaine or oxycodone addiction-like behavior to identify the neurocircuitry mediating the effects of drug addiction.
Keywords: addiction, behavior, self-administration

Summer internship with Dr. Itay Tirosh

Weizmann Institute of Science

I was one of four recipients in Mexico to be awarded the prestigious International Science Summer Institute (ISSI) scholarship by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. Under the guidance of Dr. Michael Mints, our team explored cellular heterogeneity in viral-driven cancers.
Keywords: single-cell RNA sequencing, nasopharyngeal carcinoma