Sam Brunson
Entering Class 2020
Pronouns: She/Her
E-MAIL: [email protected]
Undergraduate Institution and Major:
University of Central Florida, B.S. in Biomedical Sciences, 2020
Graduate Advisor
Matt Chafee, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience
Graduate Research
My graduate research involves investigating cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia in a nonhuman primate model, with a particular focus on changes to cognitive state representations across populations of neurons within the prefrontal cortex and striatum.
Graduate Presentations
More Fun than a Barrel of Monkey Neurons: a Model of Cognitive Symptoms in Schizophrenia. Invited student talk presented at the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Retreat. February 10 2024.
Latent dynamical modeling of single cells during a cognitive control task. Nanosymposium presented at the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Retreat. January 29 2022.
Graduate Awards
- American Legion Brain Sciences Scholarship 2024
- Medical School Council of Graduate Students - Career Development and Advancement Award 2024
- NIMH T32 Computational Training Grant – Pre-doctoral Fellow 2022-2023
Thesis Committee
Jan Zimmerman, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience (Chair)
Matthew Chafee, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience (Advisor)
Nicola Grissom, Ph.D., Department of Psychology
Sarah Heilbronner, Ph.D., Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Audrey Sederberg, Ph.D., Department of Psychology & Department of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lab Rotations
Sarah Heilbronner, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience
Matthew Chafee, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience
Alik Widge, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry
Colum MacKinnon, Ph.D., Department of Neurology
