CV

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Education

• Ph.D., Psychology, University of New Mexico, 2021 (expected)
• M.Sc., Psychology, University of New Mexico, 2016
• B.A., Psychology, Purdue University, 2014

Experience

2015-Present Graduate Student, University of New Mexico, Mentor Dr. Benjamin Clark

• - Contribution of the thalamic directional signal to hippocampal dynamics and spatial memory
• - The impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on spatial processing

2014-2015 Research Technician, Purdue University, Mentor Dr. Ryan M. Yoder

• - Hippocampal representations of otoconia-deficient mice

2014-2015 Research assistant, Purdue University, Mentor Dr. Punya Nachappa

• - The effect of microgravity on soybean growth

2013-2015 Research assistant, Purdue University, Mentor Dr. Carol Lawton

• - Human spatial navigation and memory in virtual environments
• - Motion sickness in response to visual optic flow

2012-2013 Research assistant, Purdue University, Mentor Dr. Ryan M. Yoder

• - Spatial navigation and memory in otoconia-deficient mice

Skills

• Animal Behavior
  • Rat handling and training on a range of spatial navigation and memory tasks
  • Behavioral scoring
  • Design of novel behavioral tasks to investigate the function of spatial systems
• In vivo Electrophysiology
  • Micro-drive / hyper-drive custom construction for targeting of multiple brain regions simultaneously
  • Surgical micro-drive implantation
  • Single unit recordings in awake behaving rats (Neuralynx, Open Ephys)
  • Spike sorting (Kilosort, Phy, Mclust, Spike sort 3D)
• In vivo drug infusion
  • Construction and use of custom infusion device for drug delivery to multiple brain regions.
• Programming
  • Python, Matlab, & R for analysis and management of electrophysiological and behavioral data
• Histology
  • Tissue preparation, staining, and immunohistochemistry

Publications

Do the anterior and lateral thalamic nuclei make distinct contributions to spatial representation and memory?

Clark, B.J., & Harvey, R.E.(2016). Do the anterior and lateral thalamic nuclei make distinct contributions to spatial representation and memory? Neurobiology of learning and memory.

Post-training inactivation of the anterior thalamic nuclei impairs spatial performance on the radial arm maze

Harvey, R. E., Thompson, S. M., Sanchez, L. M., Yoder, R. M., & Clark, B. J. (2017). Post-training inactivation of the anterior thalamic nuclei impairs spatial performance on the radial arm maze. Frontiers in neuroscience.

Linear self-motion cues support the spatial distribution and stability of hippocampal place cells

Harvey, R. E., Rutan, S. A., Willey, G. R., Siegel, J. J., Clark, B. J., & Yoder, R. M. (2018). Linear self-motion cues support the spatial distribution and stability of hippocampal place cells. Current Biology.

Progressive impairment of directional and spatially precise trajectories by TgF344-Alzheimer’s disease rats in the Morris Water Task

Berkowitz, L. E., Harvey, R. E., Drake, E., Thompson, S. M., & Clark, B. J. (2018). Progressive impairment of directional and spatially precise trajectories by TgF344-Alzheimer’s disease rats in the Morris Water Task. Scientific reports.

A Comparison of Neural Decoding Methods and Population Coding Across Thalamo-Cortical Head Direction Cells

Xu, Z., Wu, W., Winter, S. S., Mehlman, M. L., Butler, W. N., Simmons, C. M., Harvey R.E., Berkowitz, L.E., Chen, Y., Taube, J.S., Wilber, A. A., & Clark, B.J. (2019). A Comparison of Neural Decoding Methods and Population Coding Across Thalamo-Cortical Head Direction Cells. Frontiers in Neural Circuits.

The Effects of Developmental Alcohol Exposure on the Neurobiology of Spatial Processing

Harvey R.E., Berkowitz, L.E., Hamilton, D.A., & Clark, B.J. (2019). The Effects of Developmental Alcohol Exposure on the Neurobiology of Spatial Processing. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

Altered hippocampal place cell representation and theta rhythmicity following moderate prenatal alcohol exposure

Harvey R.E., Berkowitz, L.E., Savage, D.D., Hamilton, D.A., Clark, B.J. (2020). Altered hippocampal place cell representation and theta rhythmicity following moderate prenatal alcohol exposure. BioRxiv.