RESEARCH

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY / Computational Neuroscience & Systems Biology – (Coen-Cagli Lab)

Summer 2023-Present

· Project centers on understanding heterogeneity in Autism Spectrum Disorder using novel computational methods.

Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/site/rubencoencagli

Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, NY / Computational Neuroscience

Liston Laboratory, June 2019 – May 2022

  • Characterized the inter-individual variability present in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) evoked fMRI responses using diffusion tensor imaging and other computational methods. 

  • Work suggested that high levels of fractional anisotropy in the dorsomedial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex region may be biomarkers for a stronger and more effective response to TMS. 

  • Collaborated with the Max Planck Institute in Germany on the project. 

  • Computational aspects of the project include FSL, fMRI, DTI, MATLAB, R, BASH, Python, and various other computational and neuroimaging software tools.

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA / Computational Neurobiology

Gunawardena Laboratory, June 2018 – Dec 2018

  • Developed a modular pipeline that predicts the locations of cis-regulatory elements and transcription factor binding sites in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome. 

  • Lead a comparative analysis study of how regulatory mechanisms of neuronal type specification have evolved across the animal phylogeny. 

  • Collaborated on a project involving detection of a gene regulatory elements in human genes of different evolutionary ages. 

  • Collaborated with Victor Luria in the Kirschner Lab on a manuscript.

Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, OH / Research Assistant

Elbasiouny Laboratory, Dec 2018 – May 2018

  • Worked in the N.E.R.D. lab dealing primarily with neuroprosthetics and immunohistochemistry in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  • Learned various immunohistochemistry and imaging techniques.