University of Zurich:
Jasper Teutsch (February 2018-present)
Jasper did his M.Sc. in Neuroscience from University of Ulm. He is studying learning in cortical and hippocampal circuits.
Giuseppe Pariente (February 2018-present)
Giuseppe did his B.Sc. in Physics from Universita di Tor Vergata. He is implementing sophisticated analytical tools to study learning dynamics.
Escapees
Karolina Ignatiadis 
University of Zurich/ETH:
Chiara Rickenbach
Chiara is a ETH Master's in Neurobiology student. She has joined Helmchen-Jessberger labs for her ETH Master's thesis. She will work with Abhi to investigate hippocampal circuits in linking context with reward processing.
Matteo Cartiglia
Matteo is a Master's student at ETH studying Biomedical Engineering. He is in Helmchen lab working with Abhi studying hippocampal circuit dynamics.
MIT:
Esmeralda Romero-Lorenzo
August 2012-August 2013 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Class of 2014, Bioengineering Major, Simons UROP fellow
Now Ph.D student at University of California, Irvine
Project: Studying the Role of Interneuron Subtypes in Rett Syndrome
Esme is supported by MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).
Bio: Esmeralda Romero-Lorenzo is a third year Bioengineering student at MIT. In the past, she was a Matina Horner Fellow working with the MGH Neuroendocrine Unit on a study of appetite regulating and stress hormones in the genetics of anorexia nervosa. She also worked along with Michael Bonkowski, Ph.D., in the Guarente lab to study the role of SirT1 in endocrine signaling. Last summer, she participated in MISTI-Israel where she had the opportunity to work at Haifa University in the Laboratory for Molecular Neurobiology of Memory, where she studied the expression of genes in particular cells in the auditory thalamus that are connected to the lateral amygdala.
Publications:
- Banerjee A, Romero-Lorenzo E and Sur M (2013) MeCP2: Making sense of missense in Rett Syndrome. Invited Review, Cell Research. Aug 13. doi: 10.1038/cr.2013.109. [Epub ahead of print]
Aliya Perrin Dincer
June-September, 2012 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Class of 2014, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Major
Now Health Economics professional at Analysis Group
Project: Using Optogenetics to Epigenetically Control Neuronal Activity
Bio: Aliya Dincer is a fourth-year student studying neuroscience at MIT. Working in the Sur Lab was her first exposure to rigorous scientific design and experimentation, where she studied the effects of a Rett syndrome mutation on dendtritogenesis. Since then, her interests have expanded to include social medicine, and she spent her junior year working with Christin Glorioso, Ph.D. and Mohan Viswanathan, Ph.D. in the Guarente Lab to study genetic factors of brain aging. Last summer, she worked at the World Bank to analyze the impact of an intervention to combat teenage obesity in Mexico. In the future, she hopes to combine techniques in neuroscience and economics to influence policy decisions.
Oxford:
André Marques-Smith (now postdoc at Kampff Lab, Sanisbury Wellcome Centre, UCL)
April-June, 2010, Trinity Term - University of Oxford, Class of 2009-2010, Wellcome Trust M.Sc in Neuroscience student, later D.Phil in Physiology in Paulsen-Molnar labs, University of Oxford
Project: Whisker pairing induced plasticity in the mouse barrel cortex in vivo
Andre won the ‘Sherrington Prize’ for best student project in Trinity Term, University of Oxford.
Cassandra Sampaio-Baptista (now postdoc at Johansen-Berg Lab, University of Oxford)
January-April, 2010, Hilary Term - University of Oxford, Class of 2009-2010, M.Sc in Neuroscience student, FCT Fellow, Portugal, later D.Phil in Johansen-Berg Lab, NDCN, University of Oxford
Project: Synapse-specific dissociation rules of STDP in barrel cortex
Publications:
- Banerjee A, González-Rueda A, Baptista CS and Paulsen O, Rodríguez-Moreno A (2014) Distinct STDP induction rules at horizontal and vertical inputs on layer 2/3 neurons in mouse barrel cortex. Physiological Reports 2 (3), e00271, doi: 10.1002/phy2.271
