Pel Ozel
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Research Interests: Pelin Ozel is a graduate student in the neuroscience department. Prior to joining the Knierim lab, she studied head direction cells during 3D navigational tasks in her honors thesis in the Taube lab. Now, she is using high-density silicon probes, Neuropixels, to investigate representational plasticity of place fields in the hippocampus. Broadly, she is interested in how non-spatial stimuli (such as rewards and visual information) can be integrated into the cognitive map model. Recent awards: F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Awardee, OIST Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC) Attendee, JHSOM GSA Travel Grant Awardee