Mentoring students and technicians

Mentorship, Boston University, Gardner lab, 2016

Recruited, trained, and mentored four undergraduate students to support my work in the Gardner lab. Supervised and mentored two technicians.


NamePosition; activitiesYear
Daniel LemanResearch Technician; Developed surgical/optical methods to longitudinally record cells in HVC. Co-author on a manuscript.2017-2019
Alexa SanchioniUndergraduate Researcher; Worked on audio annotation and, with a UROP award, pioneered analyses of neuronal ensemble activity in stereotyped birdsong.2017-2019
Emily MallaberUndergraduate Researcher; Piloted data analysis of behavioral perturbation in canary song sequences.2018
Vika SkidanovaUndergraduate Researcher; Initiated behavior analyses of pharmacological perineural net. digestion in premotor song nuclei.2019-2020
Haley CerrataniUndergraduate Researcher; Initiated behavior analyses of pharmacological lesions in striatal song nuclei.2019
Carlos GomezResearch Technician; Developed measurement setups and techniques for SiC electrode QA tests. Contributed to results in 2 peer review publications.2016-2017