Kavli NDI awards support the training of a new generation of transdisciplinary neuroscientists, engineers, and data scientists to equip them to meet tomorrow’s research challenges.
To learn more about Kavli NDI sponsored award recipients please see below.
This program was established to provide a cross-disciplinary training platform for Postdoctoral Fellows through the support of bold research that bridges neuroscience to engineering and data science. Kavli NDI recognizes that Postdoctoral fellows are a highly skilled research force that are often the driving force in breakthrough discoveries. This program aims to foster groundbreaking discoveries while equipping our scientists with interdisciplinary skills and mindset for their future careers.
PI: Justus Kebschull
CoPI: Reza Kalhor
Project Title: Polysynaptic connectivity mapping with single-neuron resolution and high throughput using evolving RNA barcodes.
PI: Patricia Janak, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
CoPI: Dinchang Lin, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Neuroengineering Approaches for Mapping Cortico-Basal Ganglia Neural Dynamics onto Reward-Guided Decision Processes.
PI: Dr.Kishore Kuchibhotla
Co-PI: Dr. Adam Charles
Project Title: The neural basis of abrupt transitions from goal-directed to habitual behavior.
PI: Noah Cowan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
CoPI: James Knierim, Mind Brain Institute
Title: Investigating the Influence of Reward Location on Hippocampal Path-Integration Computations
PI: Kathleen Cullen, Department of Biomedical Engineering
CoPI: Adam Charles, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Context Dependent Geometries of Neural Trajectories during Locomotion.
PI: James Knierim, Mind Brain Institute
CoPI: Kechen Zhang, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Integration of Landmark Information into Putative Head Direction Ring Attractor Networks in Retrosplenial Cortex.
Kavli NDI recognizes graduate students who demonstrate a particular transdisciplinary interest in neuroscience and engineering or data science to become members of Kavli NDI. These mid- and advanced-stage graduate students receive two years of fellowship support, and as members of the Kavli neuroscience community at JHU, participate in Kavli NDI-supported activities, symposia, workshops, and students/fellows monthly research lunch meetings.
PI: Jean Fan, Department of Biomedical Engineering
CoPI: Justus Kebschull, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Uncovering the transcriptomic landscape during cerebellar nuclei formation
PI: Cynthia Moss, Department of Psychological Sciences
CoPI:Mounya Elhilali, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project Title: Neural mechanisms of prediction in the hippocampus of echolocating bats
PI: Ji Yi, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Wilmer Eye Institute
CoPI: Patrick Kanold, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Mesoscopic Oblique Plane Microscopy (Meso-OPM) platform for Multi-scale and Multi-Photon Volumetric Dynamic Imaging
PI: Adam Charles, Department of Biomedical Engineering
CoPI: Kathleen Cullen Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Neural Integration in Motor Control with Graph-Driven Dynamics
PI: Solange Brown, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Daeyeol Lee, Mind Brain Institute
Project Title: The role of the claustrum in flexible decision-making
PI: Dinchang Lin, Department of Biomedical Engineering
CoPI: Dwight Bergles, Department of Neuroscience
Title: Brain-wide mapping of astrocyte dynamics using genetically encoded assembly recorders (GEARs)
PI: Marshall Shuller, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Raman Arora, Department of Computer Science
Project Title: Temporal Reward Prediction in the Visual Corticostriatal Circuit
Kavli NDI recognizes incoming graduate students who demonstrate a particular transdisciplinary interest in neuroscience and engineering or data science to become members of Kavli NDI. These students receive one year of fellowship support, and as members of the Kavli neuroscience community at JHU, participate in Kavli NDI supported activities, symposia, workshops, and students/fellows monthly research lunch meetings.
The Kavli NDI Summer Internship Program (SIP) at Johns Hopkins University is a 10-week program that provides experience in research laboratories to students of diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented minority students and students from economically disadvantaged, underserved backgrounds that have completed two or more years of college.
In 2023, we hosted two students : Arsh Ali, mentored by Dr. Shreesh Mysore and Hy Do, mentored by Dr. Seth Blackshaw
Understanding how the brain harnesses the ability to adapt, learn, and problem solve, whether in early development, through aging or in the face of disease is a challenge that is being tackled by scientists across the globe. The Kavli NDI Visiting Scientist Program was developed to integrate this global community by fostering collaborations between Kavli NDI members and internationally renowned scientists. Visiting scientists are hosted by Kavli NDI to share their expertise and stimulate interdisciplinary scientific interactions that advance our understanding of the structure and function of the brain.
Title: Untangling the spider’s web: a computational approach to the identification of sensorimotor rules underlying web-making
PI: Andrew Gordus, Department of Biology
CoPI: Sridevi Sarma, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Few-Angle Susceptibility Tensor Imaging via Data Driven Image Reconstruction for In Vivo Human Brain Fiber Tracking
PI: Jeremias Sulam, Biomedical Engineering
CoPI: Xu Li, Radiology and Radiological Science
Title: Primate social cognition in medial temporal lobe memory
PI: Ed Connor, Dept of Neuroscience, The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
CoPI: Lydia Hopper, Dept of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
Title: Mechanisms governing modulation of path integration gain in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex
PI: James Knierim, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Noah Cowan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Title: Local Transcriptional Variation across Subtypes of Cortical Synapses
PI: Solange Brown, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Loyal Goff, Department of Genetic Medicine &
Neuroscience
Title: Identification of novel molecular determinants that define cortical neuron subtype morphologies: visualization and analysis at single-neuron resolution
PI: Alex L. Kolodkin, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Michael I. Miller, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Time's form in the hippocampus and its role in temporal decision-making
PI: Marshall Hussain Shuler, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Vikram Chib, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Leveraging the vestibular prosthetic stimulation to understand vestibular coding strategies and internal models of self-motion
PI: Kathleen Cullen, Department of Biomedical Engineering
CoPI: Charles Della Santina, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Title: Bat Wing Hair Airflow Sensing and Somatosensory Response for Robust Flight Control
PI: Dr. Noah Cowan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
CoPI: Dr. Cynthia Moss, Department of Psychological and Brain Science
Title: Molecular and Circuit Mechanisms Mediating the Circadian Regulation of Fear Learning
PI: Mark Wu, Department of Neurology
CoPI: Patricia Janak, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
TITLE: Defining the rules governing myelin patterns and plasticity in the cortex
PI: Dwight Bergles, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Jeremias Sulam, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: A cortical mechanism for continual, multi-task sensorimotor learning
PI: Kishore Kuchibhotla, Department of Psychology and Brain Science
CoPI: Adam Charles, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Bridging Synaptic Plasticity and Neural Network Activity underlying Short-term Memory
PI: Richard Huganir, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Patrick Kanold, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Conjoint outcome prediction and reporting by ACh, DA, NE, & 5-HT in primary visual and auditory cortices
PI: Marshall G.H. Shuler, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Kishore Kuchibhotla, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Title: Long-range circuits for learning of audiomotor tasks: investigating cholinergic control of sensorimotor acquisition
PI: Kishore Kuchibhotla, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
CoPI: Adam Charles, Department of Biomedical Engineering
TITLE OF RESEARCH PROJECT:Probing and manipulating the neural mechanisms underlying internal models of self-motion using high-density read-write electrode technology
PI: Kathleen Cullen, Department of Biomedical Engineering
CoPI: Tim Harris, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Muscle spindle afferent action in jaw motor control under perturbation
PI: Daniel O’Connor, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Noah Cowan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Title: Neural encoding of manual dexterity in hovering bats
PI: Cynthia F. Moss, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
CoPI: Laurent Younes, Center for Imaging Science & Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Title: From Tangle to Tissue: Building Mathematical Bridges Between Neurobiology Across Scales for Characterization and Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
PI:Michael Miller, Department of Biomedical Engineering
CoPI: Marilyn Albert, Department of Neurology
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Neuroscience
Title: Neuronal circuits of context-dependent sensorimotor behavior
PI: Patricia Janak, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
CoPI: Joshua T. Vogelstein, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Revealing the synaptic encoding of fear learning and memory.
PI: Richard Huganir, Department of Neuroscience
Co PI: Joshua Vogelstein, Center for Imaging Science
Title: Rewiring the cortex with a thalamic prosthesis analog.
PI: Hey-Kyoung Lee, Department of Neuroscience, Mind Brain Institute
Co PI: Jin Kang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Title: Modeling the effect of species-specific conservation and spatial organization in scRNAseq of retina development via novel algorithm development, applied analysis, and in situ validation.
PI: Loyal A. Goff, Department of Neuroscience
Co PI: Elana Fertig, Department of Oncology, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Project: Imaging Cholinergic Fiber Activation.
PI: Marshall Hussain Shuler, Department of Neuroscience bridged
Co PI: Michael Miller, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Three-dimensional analysis of newborn neuron integration in aging.
PI: Michela Gallagher, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Co PI: Joshua Vogelstein, Center for Imaging Science
Project: Mapping the hidden transcriptome in retinal differentiation.
PI: Seth Blackshaw, Department of Neuroscience
Co PI: Jeffrey T. Leek, Department of Biostatistics
Succeeding position: Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Project: Stabilizing the cognitive map with real-time feedback in virtual reality to quantify the influence of optic flow.
PI: James Knierim, The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
Co PI: Noah Cowan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Succeeding position: Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of British Columbia
Project: Development of Head-mount Fiber-optic Platform for Two-photon Imaging of Freely Walking Animals.
PI: Xingde Li, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Co PI: Dwight Bergles, Department of Neuroscience
Succeeding position: R&D Staff Engineer, Children's National Medical Center, Washington DC.
Project: Neural Correlates During Human Decision-making: The Integration of Rational Reasoning and Internal Biases.
PI: Sridevi Sarma, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Co PI: Ernst Niebur, Department of Neuroscience
Succeeding position: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science School of Engineering, University of Liège
Project: NeuroSCOPE - A Wireless Miniature Microscope for Brain Imaging in Freely Moving Animals.
PI: Arvind Pathak, Department of Radiology
Co PI: Nitish Thakor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Chronic Calcium Imaging of Auditory Cortical Neurons in Awake Marmosets with Quiet Two-Photon Microscopy and a Scalable Data Workflow.
PI: Xiaoqin Wang, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Co PIs: Randal Burns, Department of Computer Science
Project: MR Micro Imaging and Three Dimensional Histology: INtegrating Neuroimaging Data Across Scales.
PI: Michael Miller, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Co PI: Juan Troncoso, Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology
Succeeding position: Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology and Computational Medicine, UCLA Brain Mapping Center
INGEBI CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Hosted by: Paul Fuchs, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Project: Structure and function analyses of how calcium influx, endoplasmic storage and release may contribute to synaptic function.
Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School
Hosted by: Xinzhong Dong, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience
Project: Advanced methods to determine glial cells influence on nerves, pain transmission and sensation.
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience/ Centre for Neural - NTNU
Hosted by: Michael Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Development of a common representation of structural data on animal models, AD patients, and healthy humans focusing on the entorhinal-hippocampal system
Title: Untangling the spider’s web: a computational approach to the identification of sensorimotor rules underlying web-making
PI: Andrew Gordus, Department of Biology
CoPI: Sridevi Sarma, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Few-Angle Susceptibility Tensor Imaging via Data Driven Image Reconstruction for In Vivo Human Brain Fiber Tracking
PI: Jeremias Sulam, Biomedical Engineering
CoPI: Xu Li, Radiology and Radiological Science
Title: Primate social cognition in medial temporal lobe memory
PI: Ed Connor, Dept of Neuroscience, The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
CoPI: Lydia Hopper, Dept of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
Title: Mechanisms governing modulation of path integration gain in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex
PI: James Knierim, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Noah Cowan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Title: Local Transcriptional Variation across Subtypes of Cortical Synapses
PI: Solange Brown, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Loyal Goff, Department of Genetic Medicine &
Neuroscience
Title: Identification of novel molecular determinants that define cortical neuron subtype morphologies: visualization and analysis at single-neuron resolution
PI: Alex L. Kolodkin, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Michael I. Miller, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Time's form in the hippocampus and its role in temporal decision-making
PI: Marshall Hussain Shuler, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Vikram Chib, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Leveraging the vestibular prosthetic stimulation to understand vestibular coding strategies and internal models of self-motion
PI: Kathleen Cullen, Department of Biomedical Engineering
CoPI: Charles Della Santina, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Title: Bat Wing Hair Airflow Sensing and Somatosensory Response for Robust Flight Control
PI: Dr. Noah Cowan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
CoPI: Dr. Cynthia Moss, Department of Psychological and Brain Science
Title: Molecular and Circuit Mechanisms Mediating the Circadian Regulation of Fear Learning
PI: Mark Wu, Department of Neurology
CoPI: Patricia Janak, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
TITLE: Defining the rules governing myelin patterns and plasticity in the cortex
PI: Dwight Bergles, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Jeremias Sulam, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: A cortical mechanism for continual, multi-task sensorimotor learning
PI: Kishore Kuchibhotla, Department of Psychology and Brain Science
CoPI: Adam Charles, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: From Tangle to Tissue: Building Mathematical Bridges Between Neurobiology Across Scales for Characterization and Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
PI:Michael Miller, Department of Biomedical Engineering
CoPI: Marilyn Albert, Department of Neurology
Title: Bridging Synaptic Plasticity and Neural Network Activity underlying Short-term Memory
PI: Richard Huganir, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Patrick Kanold, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Conjoint outcome prediction and reporting by ACh, DA, NE, & 5-HT in primary visual and auditory cortices
PI: Marshall G.H. Shuler, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Kishore Kuchibhotla, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Title: Long-range circuits for learning of audiomotor tasks: investigating cholinergic control of sensorimotor acquisition
PI: Kishore Kuchibhotla, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
CoPI: Adam Charles, Department of Biomedical Engineering
TITLE OF RESEARCH PROJECT:Probing and manipulating the neural mechanisms underlying internal models of self-motion using high-density read-write electrode technology
PI: Kathleen Cullen, Department of Biomedical Engineering
CoPI: Tim Harris, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Muscle spindle afferent action in jaw motor control under perturbation
PI: Daniel O’Connor, Department of Neuroscience
CoPI: Noah Cowan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Title: Neural encoding of manual dexterity in hovering bats
PI: Cynthia F. Moss, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
CoPI: Laurent Younes, Center for Imaging Science & Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Title: Neuronal circuits of context-dependent sensorimotor behavior
PI: Patricia Janak, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
CoPI: Joshua T. Vogelstein, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Title: Revealing the synaptic encoding of fear learning and memory.
PI: Richard Huganir, Department of Neuroscience
Co PI: Joshua Vogelstein, Center for Imaging Science
Title: Rewiring the cortex with a thalamic prosthesis analog.
PI: Hey-Kyoung Lee, Department of Neuroscience, Mind Brain Institute
Co PI: Jin Kang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Title: Modeling the effect of species-specific conservation and spatial organization in scRNAseq of retina development via novel algorithm development, applied analysis, and in situ validation.
PI: Loyal A. Goff, Department of Neuroscience
Co PI: Elana Fertig, Department of Oncology, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Project: Imaging Cholinergic Fiber Activation.
PI: Marshall Hussain Shuler, Department of Neuroscience bridged
Co PI: Michael Miller, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Three-dimensional analysis of newborn neuron integration in aging.
PI: Michela Gallagher, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Co PI: Joshua Vogelstein, Center for Imaging Science
Project: Mapping the hidden transcriptome in retinal differentiation.
PI: Seth Blackshaw, Department of Neuroscience
Co PI: Jeffrey T. Leek, Department of Biostatistics
Succeeding position: Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Project: Stabilizing the cognitive map with real-time feedback in virtual reality to quantify the influence of optic flow.
PI: James Knierim, The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
Co PI: Noah Cowan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Succeeding position: Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of British Columbia
Project: Development of Head-mount Fiber-optic Platform for Two-photon Imaging of Freely Walking Animals.
PI: Xingde Li, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Co PI: Dwight Bergles, Department of Neuroscience
Succeeding position: R&D Staff Engineer, Children's National Medical Center, Washington DC.
Project: Neural Correlates During Human Decision-making: The Integration of Rational Reasoning and Internal Biases.
PI: Sridevi Sarma, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Co PI: Ernst Niebur, Department of Neuroscience
Succeeding position: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science School of Engineering, University of Liège
Project: NeuroSCOPE - A Wireless Miniature Microscope for Brain Imaging in Freely Moving Animals.
PI: Arvind Pathak, Department of Radiology
Co PI: Nitish Thakor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Chronic Calcium Imaging of Auditory Cortical Neurons in Awake Marmosets with Quiet Two-Photon Microscopy and a Scalable Data Workflow.
PI: Xiaoqin Wang, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Co PIs: Randal Burns, Department of Computer Science
Project: MR Micro Imaging and Three Dimensional Histology: INtegrating Neuroimaging Data Across Scales.
PI: Michael Miller, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Co PI: Juan Troncoso, Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology
Succeeding position: Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology and Computational Medicine, UCLA Brain Mapping Center
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Neuroscience
INGEBI CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Hosted by: Paul Fuchs, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Project: Structure and function analyses of how calcium influx, endoplasmic storage and release may contribute to synaptic function.
Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School
Hosted by: Xinzhong Dong, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience
Project: Advanced methods to determine glial cells influence on nerves, pain transmission and sensation.
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience/ Centre for Neural - NTNU
Hosted by: Michael Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Development of a common representation of structural data on animal models, AD patients, and healthy humans focusing on the entorhinal-hippocampal system