Melina Tsitsiklis
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Jacobs lab at Columbia University. I recently received my PhD in Neuroscience, also working in the Jacobs lab. I use intracranial eeg (iEEG) to understand how single neurons in the human medial temporal lobe code for space and memory. Prior to graduate school I studied Biological Engineering at MIT, and worked in the Tonegawa and Boyden labs.
Outside of research I love finding new ways to teach about the scientific process, and have both co-organized and volunteered for an outreach program that teaches middle school students about neuroscience, through Columbia University Neuroscience Outreach.I am interested in pursuing data-driven research to address fundamental questions in neuroscience, especially with applications to neurotechnology and healthcare.
Publications
Single-neuron representations of spatial memory targets in humans
Melina Tsitsiklis, Jonathan Miller, Salman E. Qasim, Cory S. Inman,
Robert E. Gross, Jon R. Willie, Elliot H. Smith, Sameer A. Sheth, Catherine
A. Schevon, Michael R. Sperling, Ashwini Sharan, Joel M. Stein, Joshua
Jacobs (2020) Current Biology. [PDF,
Task Video]
Lateralized hippocampal oscillations underlie distinct aspects of human
spatial memory and navigation
Jonathan Miller, Andrew J. Watrous, Melina Tsitsiklis, Sang Ah
Lee, Sameer A. Sheth,Catherine A. Schevon, Elliot H. Smith, Michael R.
Sperling, Ashwini Sharan, Ali Akbar Asadi-Pooya, Gregory A. Worrell,
Stephen Meisenhelter, Cory S. Inman, Kathryn A. Davis, Bradley Lega,
Paul A. Wanda, Sandhitsu R. Das, Joel M. Stein, Richard Gorniak, Joshua
Jacobs (2018) Nature Communications. [PDF,
Supplement]
Prophylactic ketamine attenuates learned fear
McGowan, Josephine C., Christina T. LaGamma, Sean C. Lim, Melina Tsitsiklis,
Yuval Neria, Rebecca A. Brachman, Christine A. Denny (2017) Neuropsychopharmacology.
[PDF]