Me in a nutshell:

Grew up in Toronto, started working in a neuroscience lab when I was 18 at the Clarke Institute (now known as the Center for Addiction and Mental Health).  Worked with Brian Ross and Steve Kish on membrane metabolism in brain disorders (schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.)

 

Went to McGill University.  Started in computer science, but decided to make my own major up - joint honours computer science and neuroscience.   Worked with Matthew Shapiro (now at MSSM) on hippocampal place cells as a summer job.  

 

Took a year off, moved to Cambridge, MA to work for Nevo Technologies.  Wrote the web application that Harvard undergrads use to sign up for tutorial sections.  Learned a lot about databases and team based software engineering.  Also learned a lot about dealing with clients and the world outside (well, just barely outside) academia.  Decided to return to the ivory tower.

 

Started grad school at the center for neural science at NYU.  Tried working with NHPs in Wendy Suzuki’s lab, but couldn’t quite hack it.  Moved to the LeDoux lab and did my thesis there on Amygdala and Prefrontal Contributions to Fear Expression.

 

Defended my thesis in April 2006, and went to Europe for a month.  Spent some time in the LeDoux lab finishing some things up and started a postdoc with Carlos Brody in September 2006.  The Brody Lab moved to Princeton from CSHL at the end of 2006.

 

Things are going well at Princeton. The lab is working on several questions: short-term memory, decision making, context-dependent decision making and timing. I presented some work at COSYNE in Feb, '08 that was well-received. The lab definitely has some great momentum. We are expecting great things! (from ourselves ;)