Constantinople Lab

News

March 2024: Congratulations to Royall, who will be attending a PhD program in Material Science and Engineering at Northwestern in the Fall!

March 2024: The lab is awarded an R01! Thanks to the NIMH for their generous support!

March 2024: The lab presents 5 posters at Cosyne, and Carla Golden gave a talk!

November 2023: Andrew Mah’s paper is published in Nature Communications, and was featured in the journal’s Editors’ Highlights: From brain to behaviour. Congratulations Andrew!

November 2023: The lab presents 7 posters at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting!

October 2023: Adithya Rajagopalan joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!

July/August 2023: Audrey Martin and Jonny Schindler join the lab as research technicians. Welcome!

June 2023: Gina Canino-Quinones joins the lab as a SURP student. Welcome Gina!

May 2023: David Hocker was awarded a K01 from the NIMH. Congrats David!

March 2023: Congratulations to Daljit, who will be attending a neuroscience PhD program at Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Fall!

March 2023: Heejae Jang presented a poster at Cosyne, and Christine gave a talk at the workshops!

February 2023: Neuroscience graduate student Celine Bellagarda rotates in the lab!

January 2023: Carla Golden was awarded “Outstanding Poster Finalist” at the Winter Conference on Brain Research. Congrats Carla!

December 2022: Congratulations to Maggie DeMaegd for receiving a BRAIN Initiative NRSA from the NIMH!

December 2022: Neuroscience graduate student Elliott Capek joins the lab! Elliott is jointly advised by Alex Williams.

November 2022: Daljit Grewal, Andrew Mah, Shannon Schiereck, and Maggie DeMaegd presented posters at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting in San Diego!

September 2022: Congratulations to Andrew Mah for being awarded an NRSA from the NIMH!

September 2022: Neuroscience graduate students Ariadna Corredera Asensio and Elliott Capek rotate in the lab!

August 2022: Shannon Schiereck and Maggie DeMaegd presented posters at the Frontal Cortex GRC, and Christine gave a talk!

July 2022: The lab is awarded a Scholars Award from the McKnight Foundation. Thanks to the foundation for their generous support!

June 2022: Argha Bandyopadhyay, a Vilcek MD/PhD student, rotates in the lab! Welcome Argha!

June 2022: Royall McMahon Ward joins the lab as a research technician. Welcome Royall!

June 2022: Ina Bando joins the lab as a SURP student. Welcome Ina!

June 2022: David Hocker presented a poster at RLDM!

March 2022: Carla Golden gave a talk and Heejae Jang presented a poster at the Basal Ganglia GRC!

March 2022: Shannon Schiereck gave a talk and Andrew Mah presented a poster at Cosyne!

January 2022: Neuroscience graduate student Danilo Trinidad Perez-Rivera joins the lab!

January 2022: Neuroscience graduate student Estelle in ‘t Zandt rotates in the lab!

October 2021: David Hocker’s paper, which parses response heterogeneity in OFC during a decision-making task, is published in Elife! Congrats David!

September 2021: Neuroscience graduate student Danilo Trinidad Perez-Rivera rotates in the lab! Danilo will be collaborating with our lab and the Savin group.

August 2021: Maggie DeMaegd joins the lab as a postdoc, and her graduate work is featured on the cover of the Journal of Neuroscience!

July 2021: Mitzi Adler-Wachter joins the lab as a research technician!

July 2021: The lab is awarded an NSF CAREER Award! Thanks to the Foundation for their generous support!

March 2021: Carla Golden is named as a Junior Fellow of the Simons Society of Fellows! Congratulations Carla!

January 2021: Carla Golden and Andrew Mah present posters at the Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome!

November 2020: Daljit Grewal joins the lab as a research technician!

November 2020: Neuroscience graduate student Heejae Jang joins the lab!

October 2020: The lab is awarded an NIH New Innovator Award from the NIMH! NYU press release is here.

September 2020: Congratulations to Carla Golden for receiving a BRAIN Initiative NRSA from the NIMH!

September 2020: The lab is awarded a CRCNS grant, together with the lab of Cristina Savin, from the NIMH!

September 2020: Luke Chen joins the lab as a research technician!

July 2020: Neuroscience graduate student Heejae Jang rotates in the lab!

June 2020: The lab receives a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience! Thanks to the Foundation for their generous support!

March 2020: Congratulations to Veronica, who will be attending a neuroscience PhD program at Columbia University in the Fall!

February 2020: The lab receives a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation! Thanks to the Foundation for their generous support!

January 2020: Neuroscience graduate student Winnie Yang rotates in the lab!

January 2020: David’s work was accepted to Cosyne!

November 2019: Our new paper is out in Elife. We find that the lateral orbitofrontal cortex promotes learning of abstract, task-specific biases, but not spatial ones. DOI: 10.7544/eLife.49744

November 2019: Carla Golden joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher!

Fall 2019: Andrea Cumpelik joins the lab as a visiting scientist! Andrea is a graduate student in Jozsef Csicsvari’s lab, and while at NYU, she is working jointly with our lab and Cristina Savin.

Fall 2019: Neuroscience graduate student Daisy Lin rotates in the lab!

July 2019: David Hocker joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher!

Summer 2019: Neuroscience graduate students Andrew Mah and Shannon Schiereck join the lab!

June 4, 2019: The Constantinople lab moves into our permanent renovated lab space!

June 1, 2019: Christine speaks at the World Science Festival about decision biases and neural sources of variability in perception and decision-making. https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/

May, 2019: James Conde joins the lab as part of NYU’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program!

May 2019: Our new paper is out in Current Biology! We apply the predominant behavioral economic theory of decision-making under risk, called Prospect Theory, to rats. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.013

January 2019: Veronica Bossio and Madori Spiker join the Constantinople Lab as research technicians!

January 2019: The Constantinople Lab joins the Center for Neural Science!