Postdoc Research Seminars
Please join the PDA as we welcome 2 BSD postdocs to present their research (25 minute talks). All are welcome to join us to support and network with BSD postdocs, enjoy PIZZA and drinks, and learn about exciting science happening in the BSD.
Date & Time
Wednesday, October 29 from 3:30-4:30 PM
Location:
BSLC 008
Speakers:
Hannah Farrell, PhD: “From Structure to Motion: Locomotor insights from internal bone morphology”
Dr. Hannah Farrell is a paleoanthropologist and postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Zewdi Tsegai in the Ape-Move Lab in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy. She studies how movement and behavior shape the skeleton, using cortical and trabecular bone structure to uncover how bones record locomotion across growth and evolution. Working with both living primates and fossil hominins, her research links internal bone architecture to the mechanical and behavioral shifts that define our evolutionary history.
Ramanujan Srinath, PhD: “How does the brain learn to generalize from a few examples?”
Dr. Ramanujan Srinath is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Cohen Lab in the Department of Neurobiology. Ram’s research focuses on understanding how the brain processes visual information to guide flexible behavior. He uses electrophysiological, psychophysical, and computational techniques to study how the primate visual system processes objects and how inferences about those objects are mapped to behavioral outputs in different environmental, cognitive, and task conditions. His current research projects address (1) how the brain extracts relevant information to guide behavior while ignoring distractors, (2) how this selection behavior is tolerant to the changing perspectives and views on familiar and novel objects, and (3) how associations between objects and action sequences are encoded in the brain and are optimized for flexible behavior.
Organized by:
BSD Postdoctoral Affairs
For more information:
Please contact Laurie Risner, PhD, Director, Postdoc Affairs, at lrisner1@bsd.uchicago.edu.