+ Write documentation, protocols, and tutorials to enhance user accessibility and engagement for Bonsai, an open-source software for constructing interactive systems for neuroscience experiments. +
+ +- • Consulted on and designed, setup custom hardware/software for assaying - mice behavioral responses for independent and collaborative team - projects, leading to 1 publication in a high impact journal (Nature). + • Conducted research into the neural circuits underlying olfaction-driven social behavior in mice. +
+ ++ • Developed and implemented signal processing and data analysis methods for physiological signals (respiration, pupil dilation) to study state-dependent modulation of arousal. +
+ ++ • Setup and optimized machine learning pipelines for pose estimation and behavioral motif extraction to study postural and facial responses to olfactory stimuli.
- • Setup new data analysis/machine learning pipelines for analyzing and - extracting insights from mice behavioral videos. + • Setup and optimized machine learning pipelines for pose estimation and behavioral motif extraction to study postural and facial responses to olfactory stimuli.
- • Performed stereotaxic surgery for craniotomy, virus injection and fiber - photometry/optogenetics/electrode implants to monitor and manipulate invivo - neural activity in mice. + • Performed stereotaxic surgery, craniotomy, virus injections, fiber photometry, and optogenetics to monitor and manipulate neural activity, investigating the neural mechanisms underlying sexual arousal. +
+ ++ • Designed and consulted on custom hardware/software setups for behavior, contributing to collaborative projects and high impact publications.
- • Utilized behavioral assays, in-situ hybridisation, drug dosing, immunohistochemstry, western blot, qPCR, confocal microscopy, - electrophysiology to investigate behavioral, molecular and cellular changes in transgenic mice models of human neuropsychiatric disorders. + • Conducted research into the mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric disorders using environmental, cellular and transgenic mice models. +
+ ++ • Performed PCR, molecular cloning, HEK293 and neuronal cell culture, transient transfection, shRNA, lentivirus and AAV production to study disease mechanisms using transgene knockdown and over-expression. +
+ ++ • Utilized western blot, qPCR, confocal microscopy, immunohistochemstry, in-situ hybridization and electrophysiology to quantify disease phenotypes.
- • Performed molecular cloning, tissue dissociation, primary mice neuron and hek293 cell culture, transfection and electroporation to knockdown and - overexpress transgenes to study cellular changes of transgene expression. + • Characterized behavioral abnormalities in mice models using a wide panel of behavioral assays targeting sensory and motor function, cognition, memory, social behaviors and neuropsychiatric phenotypes (anxiety/depression/schizophrenia/repetitive behaviors).
- • Published 2 first author and 3 collaborative publications with animal/cellular models of neuropsychiatric disorders in internationally recognized - journals. + • Published 2 first author and 3 collaborative publications in high impact journals and presented at international neuroscience conferences.