Stories of Women in Neuroscience

Lisa is an Associate Professor at Stanford University who studies biophysical and network properties of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex. Although she hesitates to describe herself as a “card-carrying computational neuroscientist ”, Lisa has quite a bit of computational experience in her past. In her interview with Dakota, she reveals why grid cells are so incredibly interesting, and how this i...

Stacey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Agnes Scott College whose research focuses on voltage-gated ion channels. In her interview with Brielle, Stacey describes the incident that suddenly and dramatically launched her from the world of immunology to neuroscience, and more recently how her passion and curiosity again prompted her research focus to shift in a unique directi...

Sana is an Alzheimer ’s Society Research Fellow at the University of Oxford who uses multimodal neuroimaging techniques to study risk and resilience for cognitive decline in aging. In Cristiana’s interview with Sana, they discuss the many forms in which Sana’s passion for neuroscience has materialized: her postdoctoral research involving risk factors for developing dementia, how she almost left re...

This episode features Megan’s interview with Anne, who studies the neural circuits and computations underlying decision-making at Cold Spring Harbor (and will soon be moving her lab to the University of California - Los Angeles).

This episode features Nancy’s interview with Grace, who creates data-inspired neural networks to model and study the visual cortex. Dr. Grace Lindsay was hooked on neuroscience before she even knew its name. In her high school psychology class, she was fascinated by topics of human behavior and the inner workings of the mind, but the class left her with more questions than answers. Grace realized...

In this episode, Nancy chats with Charisse about her research at UCSD studying blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease as well as her perspective on mentorship and how she has gained strength from having an open mind.

In this episode, Cristiana chats with Kerry about her research at the University of Oxford on neural encoding of complex sound features in auditory cortex.

In this episode, Megan interviews Susanne who studies circuit mechanisms underlying compulsive behaviors in mouse models of OCD at the University of Pittsburgh.

This episode features Cristiana's interview with Liz who studies links between genes and brain dysfunction in psychiatric illness.

This episode features Daniela’s interview with Renata, who studies the role of interneurons in cortical sensory processing.

This episode features Catie’s interview with Elena who studies astrocytes and their influence on neuronal vulnerability to stroke.

This episode features Nancy’s interview with Ream who studies the neurocircuitry of addiction, stress, and pain.

This episode features Catie’s interview with Ali who studies the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying age-related changes in motivated learning and memory.

This interview features Megan’s interview with Gina who studies how sleep influences learning and memory consolidation.

This episode features Nancy’s interview with Millie who studies the postpartum brain and how early life events influence neuropsychiatric disorders.

This episode features Megan's interview with Adrienne who studies information processing algorithms underlying neural interactions.

This episode features Nancy’s interview with Huda who studies the neural mechanisms of pain and emotion.

This episode features Dakota’s interview with Mae, who studies how hormonal state changes affect the neurobiology of social behavior.

This episode features Megan’s interview with Beth who studies the neural mechanisms of learning and memory.

This episode features Dakota’s interview with Kelly who uses computational methods to study the neural correlates of observational learning.

This episode features Megan’s interview with Dayu who studies the generation and modulation of social behaviors.

This episode features Nancy’s interview with Bianca who studies how experience can impact neurobiology and behavior.

This episode features Nancy’s interview with Kay who studies the neural circuits underlying motivated behaviors.

This episode features Catie’s interview with Brenda who studies how brain circuitry changes in response to experience.

This episode features Catie’s interview with Wendy who studies the cellular and molecular responses to peripheral nerve injury, focusing on Schwann cells.