Biology Seminar Series: Selmaan Chettih - "Barcoding of episodic memories in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird"

Selmaan obtained a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore college in 2010, after which he joined Javier Medina's lab at UPenn as a research technician. He then joined Christopher Harvey's lab at Harvard for his graduate work in Neurobiology, where he developed advanced optical methods for measuring cortical circuit computations underlying perception and decision making. Selmaan currently works at Columbia's Zuckerman institute in the lab of Dmitriy Aronov and with Larry Abbott. As a postdoc, he studies the neural mechanisms underlying episodic memory using the natural food-caching behavior of chickadees. His work has identified a novel code for memorable events in the activity of hippocampal neurons.