Last month, I attended the Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington, DC and interviewed neuroscientists from across the world about their research. This is the third in a multi-part series called “SfN Shorts” that features these brief (5-10 minute) discussions. You can find Parts 1 and 2 here and here. I hope that these interviews showcase just how broad a field neuroscience is, and just how many different kinds of research are contained within this field.

Interview 1: Giovanna Campos, an undergraduate student at Temple university and an ENDURE Scholar, on the role of a brain region called the fornix on spatial reasoning and memory.

Interview 2: Manuel Vasconcelos, an undergraduate student at the University of California, San Diego and an ENDURE Scholar, on using machine learning to study how the brain responds to rewarding and aversive events.

Interview 3: Miles Carter, an undergraduate student at New York University and an ENDURE Scholar, on using nanobodies for early and non-invasive detection of Alzheimers Disease.

Interview 4: Samantha Sutton, a masters student at Syracuse University, on the role of astrocytes in maintaining excitatory/inhibitory balance in the brain, and how this could contribute to our understanding of epilepsy.

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