 A huge congratulations to Dr. Melisa Gumus for successfully defended her PhD thesis! Melisa's impressive dissertation hit all the corners of the lab's research: characterizing white matter pathways in the hippocampus and their relationship to cognition, linking computational mechanisms of learning to hippocampal processes and representations, and exploring how attention learning is encoded into flexible concept knowledge. Well done, Dr. Gumus!
Melisa was one of the first trainees in the Mack Lab, starting way back in 2016 as an undergraduate research assistant. In the following 9 years, she wore many hats in the lab including RA, lab manager, graduate RA while she completed a master's degree with Carmela Tartaglia, and finally PhD student in Psychology. The Mack Lab is what it is today because of Melisa's persistent motivation for innovative research, her infectious positive spirit, and her gracious support of everyone around her. We will miss her dearly! Melisa's next step is a postdoctoral position with Mariam Aly at UC Berkeley. Best of luck, Dr. Gumus!! Comments are closed.
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