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 Awards/Honors

Sharon L. Doherty Student Leadership Award, 2024 
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship, 2024-2025 
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

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

  • 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. 
  • 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.
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