People\\ [[:lab_people|Current]] People\\ [[:public:trainee_table|Trainee Table]] People\\ [[:public:lab_alumni|Alumni]] ====== Current Trainee Table ====== ^Trainee Name (Fname LName)^Gender (M/F)^Did trainee belong to an under-represented minority? (No or specify ethnicity)^Training Level (Pre or Post-Doc)^Period of Training (YY to YY)^Institution and degree received prior to training^Date of Degree^Title of Research Project^Current Position (Provide Title, Dept,Institution) Past Trainees Only^Any other collaborating Mentors? (No or specify )^Source of Support (for current trainees only)^For Past Trainees: Was trainee supported by a training grant? ( No or Specify training grant)^ | Ritobrato Datta | M | No | Post-doc | 2010 -- Present | PhD Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, | 2006 | Structural and functional alterations of area V1 in migraine | | Yes (John Detre, Neurology; Brett Cucchiara, Neurology) | R01 NS061572 (Cucchiara) | | | Noah Benson | M | No | Post-doc | 2010 -- Present | PhD, University of Washington, Biomedical and Health Informatics | 2010 | Cortical Alteration in Age-related Macular Degeneration | | David Brainard | PA State Tobacco Fund | NIH Training Grant 3 T15 LM007442-04S1 from the National Library of Medicine (at the University of Washington) | | David Kahn | M | No | Pre | 2009 -- Present | BS, California Institute of Technology | 2006 | Perceptual representations and the neural encoding of similarity, & implications for Autism Spectrum Disorders | PhD Candidate, Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine| Yes (Robert Schultz, CHOP) | NIH R21 (MH098153; Schultz, R & Aguirre, G), NIH Training Grant in Behav/Cog Neuro (T32 MH017168-23; Abel, T.) | | | Omar Butt | M | No | Pre | 2010 -- Present | MS, Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins University | 2007 | Cortical alteration in Adult Macular Degeneration | | No | NIH Training Grant T32AG000255-14, CURE / PA State Tobacco fund | | | Marcelo Gomes Mattar | M | No | Pre | 2011 -- Present | Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (Brasil), BA Electronics Engineer | Dez-2009 | De Bruijn cycles for neural decoding | PhD student, Psychology department, University of Pennsylvania | No | Benjamin Franklin Fellowship | | | Sandeep Jain | M | No | Undergrad | 2011 summer | None | | Cortical alteration in Adult Macular Degeneration | U Penn Undergrad | No | | | | Yune-Sang Lee | M | No | Postdoc | 2012 - Present | Dartmouth, Ph.D in Cognitive Neuroscience | 2010 | Neural basis underlying auditory categorization in the human brain | | Sharon Thompson-Schill | | | | Manuel Spitschan | M | No | Pre | 2012 - Present | M.A. (Honours), Psychology, University of St Andrews | 2012 | Color carry over | | David Brainard | Benjamin Franklin Fellowship | | | | Julia Gromis | F | Pre/Undergrad | None | 2013 Spring | N/A | 2013 (BA, University of Pennsylvania) | Perceptual representations and the neural encoding of similarity | Undergraduate researcher | | | Marc Zebrowitz | M | No | Undergrad | 2013 Summer | B.S. Computer Science/ B.A. Psychology, Brandeis University | N/A | | Undergraduate researcher | | | Isaac Cohen | M | Undergrad | No | 2013 Summer | N/A | B.S. Mathematics & Computer Science, Yale University | | Undergraduate researcher | | | Sandra Goldlust | F | No | Undergrad | 2013 Summer | Princeton University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology candidate | N/A | | Undergraduate researcher | | | Andrew Bock | M | No | Postdoc | 2014 - Present | PhD, University of Washington | 2011 | Investigation into the neuroanatomical sources that influence diffusion tensor imaging measurements | Research Associate | No | | Marie Carter | F | No | undergrad | 2014 Fall | N/A | 2015 | | University of Pennsylvania undergrad | | | | | Ari Kahn | M | No | Pre | 2014 Fall - Present | BS, Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis | 2011 | | PhD Student, Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania | | Andrew Stern | M | No | Med Student | 2015 Spring - Present | Ph.D., Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania | 2014 | | | | | Mayank Agrawal | M | No | Undergrad | 2015 Summer | N/A | 2018 | | | | | Andrew Olsen | M | No | Med Student | 2015 Summer - Present | AB, Cognitive Science, Harvard University | 2011 | Photoreceptor-Specific Contributions to the Superior Colliculus | | ====== Alumni Trainee Table ====== ^Trainee Name (Fname LName)^Gender (M/F)^Did trainee belong to an under-represented minority? (No or specify ethnicity)^Training Level (Pre or Post-Doc)^Period of Training (YY to YY)^Institution and degree received prior to training^Date of Degree^Title of Research Project^Current Position (Provide Title, Dept,Institution) Past Trainees Only^Any other collaborating Mentors? (No or specify )^Source of Support (for current trainees only)^For Past Trainees: Was trainee supported by a training grant? ( No or Specify training grant)^ | Petya Radoeva | F | No | Pre | 2006 -- 2008 | Mount Hollyoak, BA | 2003 | Reorganization of retinotopy following cortical damage | MD/PhD student at SUNY Upstate | No | No | | | Daniel Drucker | M | No | Pre | 2007 -- 2009 | Rutgers, BA Pychology | 2003 | Relating the geometry of perceptual spaces to neural representation | Research associate with Design Science, a human factors consulting firm in Philadelphia focusing on medical device usability | No | No | | | Sashank Prasad | M | No | Post-Doc | 2007 -- 2010 | University of Pennsylvania, MD | 2004 | Cross-modal plasticity in early blindness | Instructor in Neurology at the Harvard Medical School and an Associate Neuro-ophthalmologist at Brigham And Women's Hospital, Boston MA | No | No | | | Alison Harris | F | No | Post-Doc | 2005 -- 2009 | Harvard, PhD Psychology | 2005 | Parts and Wholes in Face perception | Post-doctoral fellow with Antonio Rangel, UCLA | No | No | | | Guy Gingras | M | "American Indian (Huron Tribe)" | Post-Doc | 2008 -- 2009 | Dalhousie Univ, PhD Neuroscience | 2004 | Visual cortex structure and function in retinal blindness and after gene therapy | Post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Howard Cooper at INSERM in Lyon | No | No | | | Philip Cook | M | No | Post-Doc | 2008 -- 2010 | University College London, PhD Computer Science | 2006 | White matter connectivity in the congenitally blind | Post-doctoral fellow | Yes (James Gee, Radiology) | T90 Neuroscience Neuroimaging Training Grant | | | Ma’ayan Hachen | F | No | Undergrad | 2010 | None | | Evaluation of a case of acquired prosopagnosia | Undergraduate student at the Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women | No | No | | | Lucía Magis Weinberg | F | Hispanic | Undergrad | 2010 | None | | deBruijn cycles for neural decoding | Undergraduate student of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico | | |NIH Training Grant in Computational Neuroscience T90 DA 22763-01| | Wesley Kerr | M | No | Undergrad | 2009 -- 2010 | None | | Neural representation of texture similarity | MD/PhD student at UCLA | No | | | | Megan Kirchner | F | No | Undergrad | 2010 -- 2011 | None | | Recovery of Visual Function in a Canine Model of Blindness | | | | | | Lauren Brandes | F | No | Undergrad | 2009 -- 2011 | None | | Cross-modal plasticity in early blindness | | | | | | Hannah Carron | F | No | Undergrad | | None | | Cross-modal plasticity in early blindness | U Penn Undergrad | No | | | | Stathis Gennatas | M | No | Pre | 2011 | Imperial College London, MBBS | 2008 | | | No | | | | Kris Walker | F | African-American | Undergrad | 2010 -- Present | BS, Longwood University | 2000 | Recovery of Visual Function in a Canine Model of Blindness | - | No | No | - | | Sarah Daina | F | No | Research Assistant | 2001 -- Present | None | | Cross-modal plasticity in early blindness | | | | | | Zijuan Chen | F | No | Pre | 2012 | Rutgers, MS, Mathematics | 2011 | graph-theoretic experimental design for neuroscience | | No | No | | | Feitong Yang | M | No | Undergrad | 2011 summer | None | | Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis | Senior year student of Peking University | No |NIH Training Grant in Computational Neuroscience T90 DA 22763-01| | Sakibul Alam| M | No | Undergrad | 2012 summer | None | |Human pupil responses driven by Melanopsin specific light | Sophmore at Emory University | No | |NIH Training Grant in Computational Neuroscience T90 DA 22763-01|