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Listen in on accessible, fascinating conversations between Princeton researchers at the cutting-edge of their fields. It is produced by Isabel Rodrigues under the 145th Board of The Daily Princetonian in partnership with Princeton Insights, a team of Princeton graduate and postdoctoral researchers working to feature research in an accessible manner for peers across departments and the public alike.
In this special episode of The Highlights, we interview Chino Eke, an undergraduate senior in the Neuroscience department. We discuss his senior thesis research, which was done with his advisor Professor Elizabeth Gould, a professor and researcher in the Princeton Neuroscience department focused on brain plasticity. Chino’s paper investigates two types of social impairments in autistic mice, and what this may tell us about the future of autism research.
This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 146th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian. Chino Eke is a recent graduate in the Neuroscience department of Princeton University.
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RESOURCES
Chino’s Senior Thesis: Mechanisms of Social Memory Dysfunction in Mouse Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder
CREDITS
Written and hosted by Senna Aldoubosh and Sophia Villacorta.
Edited by Sophia Villacorta and Senna Aldoubosh
Produced by Senna Aldoubosh
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In this special episode of Princeton Insights: The Highlights, we interview show host Thiago Tarraf Varella, a third year graduate student in the Psychology department. We discuss his research, which was done with his advisor, Dr. Asif Ghazanfar, a professor and researcher in the Princeton Psychology Department focused on developmental and evolutionary bases for communication in humans. Thaigo’s research investigates altriciality, cooperative breeding, and reinforcement learning in marmoset monkeys and their ties to evolution.
This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 146th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian. Thiago Tarraf Varella is a graduate student in Princeton’s Psychology department in Professor Ghazanfar’s lab. He can be reached at tvarella@princeton.edu.
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RESOURCES
Princeton Insights Coverage: https://insights.princeton.edu/2022/01/marmosets-infants-learn-to-speak/
Original paper: Varella, T. T., & Ghazanfar, A. A. (2021). Cooperative care and the evolution of the prelinguistic vocal learning. Developmental Psychobiology.
Marmoset audio: D. Y. Takahashi et al., Science 349, 734 (2015)
CREDITS
Written and hosted by Senna Aldoubosh and Sophia Villacorta
Edited by Sophia Villacorta and Senna Aldoubosh
Produced by Senna Aldoubosh
Original Insights coverage by Sarah McFann
“Family of Common Marmosets” by Francesco Veronesi / CC BY-SA 2.0
Image of Thiago Varella Courtesy of Thiago Varella, taken by Rohini Majumdar
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In this episode of The Highlights, we're joined by Yeon Soon Shin, who completed her doctoral degree in neuroscience at Princeton in 2020 and Rolando Masís-Obando, a 5th-year graduate student in neuroscience. We discuss their paths to graduate work in psychology, their research on how environmental context affects memory, and the virtual reality environments they created to test their ideas.
This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian in partnership with Princeton Insights. Rolando Masís-Obando is a graduate student in the Princeton Computational Memory Lab and can be reached at rmasis@princeton.edu. Yeon Soon Shin is currently a postdoctoral research associate at Yale University and can be reached at yshin@princeton.edu.
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RESOURCES:
Princeton Insights coverage: Using virtual reality to demonstrate the environmental reinstatement effect
Original Paper: Context-dependent memory effects in two immersive virtual reality environments: On Mars and underwater
CREDITS
Written and hosted by Thiago Tarraf Varella GS and Paula Brooks GS
Edited and sound engineered by Sophia Villacorta and Isabel Rodrigues
Produced by Isabel Rodrigues
Original Princeton Insights coverage by Paula Brooks GS
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In this episode of The Highlights, we're joined by Mira Nencheva, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology. We discuss her path to graduate work in psychology, the day-to-day of working with toddlers at the Princeton Baby Lab, and how the vocal pitch of a caregiver can affect learning early in life.
This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian in partnership with Princeton Insights. Mira Nencheva is a graduate student in the Princeton Baby Lab of the Department of Psychology. She can be reached at nencheva@princeton.edu.
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Princeton Insights coverage: The moment-to-moment pitch dynamics of child-directed speech shape toddlers’ attention and learning
Original Paper: The moment-to-moment pitch dynamics of child-directed speech shape toddlers’ attention and learning
CREDITS
Written and Hosted by Thiago Tarraf Varella GS and Liza Mankovskaya GS
Edited by John Shin and Isabel Rodrigues
Produced by Isabel Rodrigues
Original Insights Coverage by Liza Mankovskaya GS
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This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian in partnership with Princeton Insights. Cassie Stoddard is a professor in the Stoddard Lab of EEB. She can be reached at mstoddard@princeton.edu.
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This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian in partnership with Princeton Insights. Cassie Stoddard is a professor in the Stoddard Lab of EEB. She can be reached at mstoddard@princeton.edu.
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RESOURCES:
Princeton Insights coverage: Prince, perception and purple: The colorful world of wild hummingbirds
Original Paper: Wild hummingbirds discriminate nonspectral colors
CREDITS
Written/Hosted by Thiago Tarraf Varella GS and Jarome Ali GS
Edited by Sophia Villacorta
Produced by Isabel Rodrigues
Original Insights Coverage by Jarome Ali GS
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This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian in partnership with Princeton Insights. Patricia Hoyos is a graduate student in the Kastner Lab of PNI. She can be reached at phoyos@princeton.edu.
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RESOURCES:
Princeton Insights coverage: The development of visual-spatial biases in children
Original Paper: Development of spatial biases in school-aged children
CREDITS:
Written/Hosted by Thiago Tarraf Varella GS and Crystal Lee GS
Produced by Isabel Rodrigues
Original Insights Coverage by Crystal Lee GS
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This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian in partnership with Princeton Insights. Zhilei Zhao is a post-doc in the Goldberg Lab at Cornell University. He can be reached at zz367@cornell.edu.
RESOURCES:
Princeton Insights coverage: Infectious mosquitoes decode the unique smell of humans to pick their next meal
Original Paper: Chemical signatures of human odour generate a unique neural code in the brain of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
CREDITS:
Written/Hosted by Thiago Tarraf Varella GS and Olivia Duddy GS
Produced by Isabel Rodrigues
Original Insights Coverage by Olivia Duddy GS
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This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian in partnership with Princeton Insights. Talmo Pereira is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Neuroscience. He can be reached at talmo@princeton.edu.
RESOURCES:
Princeton Insights coverage: A computational model for automated tracking of socially-interacting animals
Original Paper: SLEAP: Multi-animal pose tracking
CREDITS:
Written/Hosted by Thiago Tarraf Varella GS and Andy Jones GS
Produced by Isabel Rodrigues ’23
Original Insights Coverage by Andy Jones GS
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This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 145th Managing Board of the Daily Princetonian in partnership with Princeton Insights. Nicole Templeman is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Victoria and a Canada Research Chair in Cell Biology. She can be reached nmtempleman@uvic.ca.
RESOURCES:
Princeton Insights coverage: A C. elegans model reveals mechanisms behind reproductive aging
Original Paper: CREB Non-autonomously Controls Reproductive Aging through Hedgehog/Patched Signaling
Definitions from this episode can be found here
CREDITS:
Written/Hosted by Thiago Tarraf Varella GS and Rebekah Rashford GS
Produced by Isabel Rodrigues
Definitions/Original Article by Rebekah Rashford GS and Ashley Chang '21
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