Talia Lerner
Associate Professor
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTalia Lerner is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Northwestern University with a decade of experience dissecting how dopamine and basal ganglia circuits drive reinforcement learning, motivation, and habit formation. Trained at UCSF (PhD) and Yale (BS), she combined graduate work at the Gladstone Institutes with a postdoc in Karl Deisseroth’s lab, bringing expertise in cutting-edge circuit and systems neuroscience methods. Her lab couples causal circuit perturbations with behavioral paradigms to reveal mechanistic principles of motivated behavior and habit, translating circuit-level insight into models of learning. Based in the greater Chicago area, she is known for integrating rigorous quantitative approaches with innovative experimental tools to uncover nonobvious dynamics of dopamine signaling across behavioral states.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, B.S., Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroscience at University of California, San Francisco
French, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
python5
image-processing5
Github contributions (5)
talialerner/Photometry-Analysis-Shared
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
talialerner/learn_tl
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 day
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