We are excited to share news from HOUR (The Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research) and congratulate the following extraordinary neuroscience students that are part of the Summer 2024 PURA Cohort. We look forward to seeing the outcomes of their projects and hope you join us in celebrating their accomplishments!  

Ira Chaturvedi – group project“H2Care: Assessing a web-based application connecting migrants in Baltimore to culturally competent care”

Xingyu Chen – “Enhancing Behavioral Analysis in Rat Hippocampal Navigation with a Machine Learning-Driven Approach in Virtual Reality Settings”

Allison Gonzalez – “Characterization of Sensory Gating of Noxious or Innocuous Stimuli During Different Vigilance States Using Simultaneous EEG/EMG Recordings and Optogenetics”

Allison Wanqing Su – “Effects of different low-bedding rearing conditions on social development”

Isabel Meerie Torio – “The Effect of Roxadustat and Melatonin on Restoration of Aquaporin-4 Polarization in Post-Traumatic Hydrocephalus”

Catalina Hernandez Valencia – “Localization of Sox and Six transcription factor expression patterns in the inner ear during regeneration”

Jennifer Jing-Wei Zeng – “Molecular differences in axo-ciliary synapses across cortical cell types”

David Zhou – “Simulating murine and human cerebrocortical development through an agent-based computational model”

Yuan “Daisy” Zhou – “Investigation of Behavioral Inflexibility in Chronic Starvation Model of Anorexia Nervosa”