Staff of the Amelia Peabody Neural Plasticity Unit

Daniel Polley, Principal Investigator

2001 Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco
2005 Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
2010- Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

daniel_polley@meei.harvard.edu

Amanda Clause, Postdoc

2011, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Corticofugal modulation

amanda_clause@meei.harvard.edu

Tania Rinaldi Barkat, Postdoc

2007, Ph.D. Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Auditory system development and plasticity
Principal postdoctoral supervisor - Takao Hensch 

trinaldi@fas.harvard.edu
 

Ross Williamson, Postdoc

2011, Ph.D. University College London
Attention and learning - auditory thalamus
Barb Shinn-Cunningham, co-mentor

ross_williamson@meei.harvard.edu

Jonathon Whitton - Graduate Student

2010 Au.D., University of Louisville
2010- Ph.D. student, Harvard-MIT HST

Computer-based auditory rehabilitation

jpwhit05@mit.edu

John Thompson - Lab Manager

1999 M.S., California Institute of Technology

Problem solver extraordinaire 

john_thompson@meei.harvard.edu

Wei Guo - Graduate Student

2009 M. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2009- PhD student, Boston University
Barb Shinn-Cunningham, co-mentor

Attention and learning - auditory cortex 

GuoW@meei.harvard.edu

Anna Chambers - Graduate Student

2009- PhD student, Harvard University

Cortical coding and plasticity

anna_chambers@meei.harvard.edu

First tuning curve at EPL!  John, Anna, Ken, Dan & Wei - June, 2010