Talha Soluoku is a doctoral researcher at the Hyman in vivo Electrophysiology Lab at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he explores the interaction between the anterior cingulate cortex and hippocampus in cognitive functions and memory formation. With clinical experience in neurophysiology, Soluoku investigates how neuroinflammation disrupts memory formation in neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease and temporal lobe epilepsy. Using electrophysiology and machine learning tools, his work focuses on uncovering the neural mechanisms behind these impairments and their wider effects on learning and memory.

James M. Hyman, PhD, received his PhD in psychology from Boston University, where he examined how hippocampal oscillations control neural network activity. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia, he studied information coding in anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Hyman has made several notable discoveries on the topics of hippocampal-cortical theta interactions, contextual and temporal representations in ACC ensembles, multiple neural prediction error signals in rodent ACC, and ACC driven recall of long-term memories. His team researches how coordinated neural activity underlies our ability to learn new information, recall past memories, and dynamically incorporate new and old information for optimal decision making, as well as how these processes are affected by Alzheimer’s disease, Type 2 diabetes, and how different pathologies affect neural communication related to higher level cognition. Hyman’s work is funded by the National Institutes On Aging and the National Institutes of Gen...

Nicole D'Souza is a junior at UC Riverside studying neuroscience and data science, with research focused on Multiple Sclerosis and functional ultrasound imaging.

Blakely Lockhart is a PhD candidate in the Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Program at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech, where she studies how maternal factors influence infant neurodevelopment.

Alex Rich is a neuroscience PhD candidate at Yale University, studying food-based learning in obesity with binge eating.