Resources
Chronic Neuropixels in Mice
I developed protocols to chronically, recoverably implant single Neuropixels 1.0 probes or dual independent Neuropixels 2.0 probes into mice and record during a freely moving automated (non)match to direction task.
Protocols
- Full collection
- Assembly
- Implant surgery
- Explant surgery
- Building a SpikeGLX rig with camera
- Building the maze and integrating with freely moving recording
Scripts and Build Files
Parts Lists
Publications
DEI
I wrote 2 tools to assist with some of my own diversity & inclusion goals
- Speaker finder: given a list of keywords, searches bioRxiv & Pubmed and returns the authors with the most publications that match that keyword
- Citation overrepresentation tool: given a bibliography, returns which labs, institutions, & journals you cite the most
Mentorship
- How to write grad school application essays
- How to interview for grad school
- Advice to new grad students
- Workshop I developed to teach new scientists how to dissect papers
- An outline to structure mentorship of a summer intern
- My NSF Personal Statement and Research Proposal
- Using templates for lab notebooks is a great way to make sure you never forget to write anything down for your experiments. Here are the templates I use for my thesis experiments and my postdoc experiments to collect in vivo ephys data.
Teaching
- Workshop to introduce biology grad students to coding
- Seminar on mammalian adaptions to low oxygen environments at high altitudes and deep depths
- Seminar on mammalian adaptions to low water environments in deserts and at sea
- 2-hour minicourse on human evolution including a species evolution RPG activity
Course Projects
- Neuromatch Academy project: Extracting latent states from V1 spiking data
- Animation of the response of the preipheral nervous system to acetylcholine binding M2 receptors
- Evolutionary computational model of child language acquisition using a genetic algorithm based on universal grammar writeup and repository
- Literature review comparing prenatal nicotine exposure to ADHD
Course Notes
- Cell Biology (Fall 2011, Dr. Ades)
- Mammalian Physiology (Spring 2011, Dr. Higgins)
- Mammalian Physiology Lab (Fall 2012, Dr. Bierman)
- Diseases of the Nervous System (Spring 2013, Dr. Singer) and a condensed version