Güldamla Kalender

Entering Class - 2020

E-MAIL:  [email protected]

Undergraduate Institution and Major:

Carleton College, B.A. in Biology and Psychology, 2014

Graduate Advisor

Alik Widge, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Graduate Publications
  • Kalender G, Olsen ST, Patzelt EH, Barch DM, Carter CS, Gold JM, Ragland JD, Silverstein SM, Macdonald III AW, Widge AS. (2025). Test-retest reliability of computational parameters versus manifest behavior for decisional flexibility in psychosis. Psychological Assessment. 2025;37(6-7):273-287. doi:10.1037/pas0001383. PMCID: PMC12088905.

Graduate Awards/Honors

American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Dissertation Fellowship, 2026-2027
Graduate and Professional SEED Award, 2026 
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowship for MD/PhD and other Dual Degrees (F30), 2025-2029
Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP) Travel Fellowship Award for the 2025 
SOBP Annual Meeting, 2025 
Futures in Neurologic Research Scholarship for the 2025 
American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting, 2025
Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD, MSTP) JEDI Leadership Fellowship, 2024-2025
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship, 2024-2025
Sharon L. Doherty Student Leadership Award, 2024
MnDRIVE Neuromodulation Fellowship, 2023-2024
President's Student Leadership and Service Award, 2023
American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Research Scholarship, 2022-2023
Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting Medical Student Scholarship, 2022
American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Experience at the Annual Meeting Scholarship, 2022

GPN Committees

  • Neurosurgery Interest Group; Treasurer; 2025 – present
  • Women in Neurosurgery Medical Student Committee; Senior Events Committee Chair (2026 – 2027), Events Committee Co-Chair (2025 – 2026), Research and Resident Events Liaison (2024 – 2025); 2024 – present
  • Widening Access and Valuing Equity in Surgery (WAVES) Mentorship Program; Co-Founder and Director; 2022 – present
  • Neuromodulation & Psychiatric Neurosurgery Group; Founder, President (2021 – 2024), and Student Advisor (2024 – present); 2021 – present
  • Women in Science & Medicine; Advisory Member (2025 – present), Chair (2024 – 2025), Vice-Chair (2023 – 2024), Board Member (2020 – 2023); 2021 – present
  • Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD) Student Advisory Committee; Chair (2024 – 2025), Vice-Chair (2023 – 2024); 2023 – 2025
  • Women in Surgery Interest Group; Vice President of DEI; 2022 – 2023

Thesis Committee

Alexander Herman, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences (Chair) 
Matthew Chafee, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience 
Christine Conelea, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 
Alik Widge, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Undergraduate Publications

Postbac Publications 

  • Tacikowski P, Kalender G, Ciliberti D, Fried I. Human hippocampal and entorhinal neurons encode the temporal structure of experience. Nature. 2024;635(8037):160-167. doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07973-1. PMCID: PMC11540853.
  • Geva-Sagiv M, Mankin EA, Eliashiv D, Epstein S, Cherry N, Kalender G, Tchemodanov N, Nir Y*, Fried I*. Augmenting hippocampal-prefrontal neuronal synchrony during sleep enhances memory consolidation in humans. Nat Neurosci. 2023;26(6):1100-1110. doi:10.1038/s41593-023-01324-5. PMCID: PMC10244181. [*Authors contributed equally to this work.]
  • Nagahama Y, Dewar S, Behnke E, Eliashiv D, Stern JM, Kalender G, Fields TA, Wilson C, Staba R, Engel J Jr, Fried I. Outcome of stereo-electroencephalography with single-unit recording in drug-refractory epilepsy. J Neurosurg. 2023;139(6):1588-1597. doi:10.3171/2023.4.JNS222633. PMID: 37243562.
  • Zhang Y, Aghajan ZM, Ison M, Lu Q, Tang H, Kalender G, Monsoor T, Zheng J, Kreiman G, Rowchowdhury V, Fried I. Decoding of human identity by computer vision and neuronal vision. Sci Rep. 2023;13(1):651. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-26946-w. PMCID: PMC9837190.
  • O'Neill J, O'Connor MJ, Kalender G, Ly R, Ng A, Dillon A, Narr KL, Loo SK, Alger JR, Levitt JG. Combining neuroimaging and behavior to discriminate children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder with and without prenatal alcohol exposure. Brain Imaging Behav. 2022;16(1):69-77. doi:10.1007/s11682-021-00477-w. PMCID: PMC8643366.
  • Kilpatrick LA, Joshi SH, O'Neill J, Kalender G, Dillon A, Best K, Narr KL, Alger JR, Levitt JG, O'Connor MJ. Cortical gyrification in children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and prenatal alcohol exposure. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021;225:108817. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108817. PMCID: PMC8445068.
  • Alger JR, O'Neill J, O'Connor MJ, Kalender G, Ly R, Ng A, Dillon A, Narr KL, Loo SK, Levitt JG. Neuroimaging of supraventricular frontal white matter in children with familial attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder due to prenatal alcohol exposure. Neurotox Res. 2021;39(4):1054-1075. doi:10.1007/s12640-021-00342-0. PMCID: PMC8442735.
  • Mankin EA, Aghajan ZM, Schuette P, Tran ME, Tchemodanov N, Titiz A, Kalender G, Eliashiv D, Stern J, Weiss SA, Kirsch D, Knowlton B, Fried I, Suthana N. Stimulation of entorhinal white matter enhances visual memory encoding in humans. Brain Stimul. 2021;14(1):131-140. doi:10.1016/j.brs.2020.11.015. PMCID: PMC7855810.
  • Levitt JG, Kalender G, O’Neill J, Diaz JP, Cook IA, Ginder N, Krantz D, Minzenberg MJ, Vince-Cruz N, Nguyen LD, Alger JR, Leuchter AF. Dorsolateral prefrontal γ-aminobutyric acid in patients with treatment-resistant depression after transcranial magnetic stimulation measured with magnetic resonance spectroscopy. J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2019;44(6):386-394. doi:10.1503/jpn.180230. PMCID: PMC6821508.
Güldamla Kalender