Ryan Harvey

Doctoral Candidate, University of New Mexico

Department of Psychology

reharvey@unm.edu

Interests

My aim is to contribute to our understanding of circuit level dynamics that give rise to spatial navigation and memory. My recent work involves understanding functional loss after developmental alcohol exposure using high-density electrophysiology recordings in behaving rodents.

Education

2015-2021(expected) Ph.D., Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

2015-2016 M.Sc., Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

2010-2014 B.A., Psychology, Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN, USA.

Experience

2015-2021(expected) Graduate Student, University of New Mexico, Mentor Dr. Benjamin Clark

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

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

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

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

Other education

2020 Neuromatch Academy (interactive track)

Awards

2017-2020 T32 training grant fellowship from NIAAA link

2017 Presentation Award, Psychology research day, University of New Mexico

2016-2017 Student conference award program travel award, University of New Mexico

2016 Poster Award, Psychology research day, University of New Mexico

2015 Poster award, Student research & creative endeavor symposium, Purdue University

2014 Research, engagement, and sponsored program research scholarship, Purdue University

Publications

*Publication list also available in Google Scholar.

Published

2020 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. Current Biology link

2020 Berkowitz L.E., Harvey R.E., Clark B.J. (2020). Spatial Navigation and Alzheimer’s disease. In: C. Martin & V.R. Preedy (Eds.), The Neuroscience of Dementia: Genetics, Neurology, Behavior, and Diet in Dementia (1st ed., Vol. 2, pp. in press). Academic Press. link

2019 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 link

2019 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, 13. link

2018 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, 8(1), 16153. link

2018 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, 28(11), 1803-1810. link

2017 Harvey R.E., Thompson, S., Sanchez, L., 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, 11, 94. link

2016 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, 133:69-78. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2016.06.002. link

Posters/talks

2019 Harvey R.E., Berkowitz, L.E., Savage, D.D., Hamilton, D.A., Clark, B.J. (2019, October). Hippocampal CA1, CA3, and dentate gyrus place cell firing characteristics in a rat model of moderate prenatal alcohol exposure. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference. Chicago, IL.

2019 Goncalaves-Garcia, M., Berkowitz, L.E., Donaldson, T., Harvey R.E., Wagner, J., Davies, S., Savage, D.D., Clark, B.J. (2019, October). The effects of moderate prenatal alcohol exposure on the organization of exploratory behavior by adult rats. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference. Chicago, IL.

2019 Harvey R.E., Berkowitz, L.E., Clark, B.J. (2019, October). Disruption of the anterior thalamic head direction cell network impairs the hippocampal place signal. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference. Chicago, IL.

2019 Berkowitz, L.E., Harvey R.E., Gabaldon-Parish, M., Roy, V. (2019, October). Characterization of cortical and thalamic head direction cells in the TgF344-AD rat model of Alzheimer’s disease. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference. Chicago, IL.

2019 Berkowitz, L.E., Gabaldon-Parish, M., Harvey R.E., Sneddon, E., Clark, B.J. (2019, October). Distributive home base behavior in the TgF344-AD rat model of Alzheimer’s disease. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference. Chicago, IL.

2019 Gabaldon-Parish, M., Berkowitz, L.E., Harvey R.E., Sneddon, E., Clark, B.J. (2019, March). Distributed home base behavior in TgF344-AD rat model of Alzheimer’s disease. Poster presented at UNM Neuroscience day, Albuquerque, NM.

2019 Goncalaves-Garcia, M., Donaldson, T., Berkowitz, L.E., Harvey R.E., Gabaldon-Parish, M., Sanchez, L., Goss, J.K., Wagner, J., Davies, S., Tofighi, D., Savage, D.D., Clark, B.J. (2019, March). The effects of moderate prenatal alcohol exposure on the organization of exploratory behavior by adult female rats. Poster presented at UNM Neuroscience day, Albuquerque, NM.

2018 Sanchez, L.M., Harvey R.E., Benthem, D., Goss, J., Johnson, S.A., Turner, S.M., Savage. D.D., Burke, S.N., & Clark, B.J., (2018, November). The effect of moderate prenatal alcohol exposure on object discrimination by adult rats. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference. San Diego, CA.

2018 Yoder, R.M., Harvey R.E., Rutan, S.A., Carstensen, L.C., Willey, G.R., Terry, C.A., Siegel, J.J., & Clark, B.J., (2018, November). Linear self-motion cues contribute to hippocampal place cells: Functional implications. Current Biology, 28(11), 1803-1810. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference. San Diego, CA.

2018 Harvey R.E., Berkowitz, L. E., Savage, D. D., Hamilton, D. A., & Clark, B. J. (2018, November). Spatial and temporal stability in CA1 hippocampal place cells following moderate prenatal alcohol exposure. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference. San Diego, CA.

2018 Harvey R.E., Berkowitz, L. E., Savage, D. D., Hamilton, D. A., & Clark, B. J. (2018, September). Spatial and temporal deficits in hippocampal place cells following moderate prenatal alcohol exposure. Poster presented at FASD Awareness Day. Albuquerque, NM.

2018 Harvey R.E., Berkowitz, L. E., Savage, D. D., Hamilton, D. A., & Clark, B. J. (2018, October). Altered spatial coding of hippocampal place cells following moderate prenatal alcohol exposure. Poster presented at the New Mexico EEG and Behavior conference. Albuquerque, NM

2018 Harvey R.E., Berkowitz, L. E., Savage, D. D., Hamilton, D. A., & Clark, B. J. (2018, April). Altered spatial coding of hippocampal place cells following moderate prenatal alcohol exposure. Poster presented at the International Conference on Learning and Memory. Huntington Beach, CA.

2018 Berkowitz, L. E., Harvey R.E., & Clark, B. J. (2018, April). Characterization of Head Direction Cells in the TgF344-AD Rat Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. Poster presented at the International Conference on Learning and Memory. Huntington Beach, CA.

2018 Harvey R.E., Berkowitz, L. E., Savage, D. D., Hamilton, D. A., & Clark, B. J. (2018, March). Reduced Spatial Coding of Hippocampal Place Cells Following Moderate Prenatal Alcohol Exposure. Poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference. Galveston, TX.

2017 Berkowitz, L. E. Thompson, S. M., Drake, E. N., Madden, J. T., Sneddon, E. A., Harvey R.E., Clark B. J. (2017, November). Sex specific spatial navigation and spatial memory impairment in the TgF344-ad rat model of Alzheimer’s disease. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference. Washington DC.

2017 Harvey R.E., Goss, J., Rigg, T., Berkowitz, L. E., Wagner, J. L., Savage, D. D., Hamilton, D. A., & Clark, B.J. (2017, November). Reduced spatial coding of hippocampal place cells following moderate prenatal alcohol exposure. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference. Washington DC.

2017 Harvey R.E., Rigg, T., Goss, J., Wagner, J.L., Savage, D.D., Hamilton, D.A., Clark, B.J. (2017). Reduced spatial and directional coding by hippocampal place cells following moderate prenatal alcohol exposure in the rat. Poster presented at the 40th Annual Research Society on Alcoholism Meeting, Denver, CO.

2017 Harvey R.E. (2017). First Characterization of Hippocampal Place Cell firing in a Moderate Prenatal Alcohol Rat Model. Talk delivered at UNM Psychology Research Day, Data Blitz. Albuquerque, NM.

2017 Harvey R.E., Rigg, T., Goss, J., Rysanek, J.S., Wagner, J.L., Savage, D.D., Hamilton, D.A., Clark, B.J., (2017). Reduced directional coding and phase locking by hippocampal place cells following moderate prenatal alcohol exposure in the rat. Poster presented at UNM Neuroscience day, Albuquerque, NM.

2017 Harvey R.E., Rigg, T., Goss, J., Rysanek, J.S., Wagner, J.L., Savage, D.D., Hamilton, D.A., Clark, B.J., (2017). Reduced directional coding and phase locking by hippocampal place cells following moderate prenatal alcohol exposure in the rat. Poster presented at UNM Alcohol Research Poster Session, Albuquerque, NM.

2016 Thompson, S.M., Harvey R.E., Sanchez, L.M., Winter, S.S., Clark, B.J. (2016). Directional Discrimination in an Object-Place Paired Associate Memory is Impaired after Muscimol Inactivation of the Anterior Thalamus. Poster presented at The Annual Society for Neuroscience conference. San Diego, CA.

2016 Harvey R.E., Thompson, S., Lilliana, S., Sneddon, E.A., Yoder, R.M., Clark, B. (2016). Influence of Anterior Thalamic Inactivation on the Retrieval of Spatial Inactivation of the Anterodorsal Thalamic Nuclei Leads to Reference Memory and Working Memory in the Radial Arm Maze. Poster presented at The Annual Society for Neuroscience conference. San Diego, CA.

2016 Harvey R.E., Thompson, S., Lilliana, S., Yoder, R.M., Clark, B. (2016). Inactivation of the anterodorsal thalamus leads to navigational deficits in the radial arm maze. Poster presented at UNM psychology department’s Psychology Research Day. Albuquerque, NM.

2016 Harvey R.E., Thompson, S., Lilliana, S., Yoder, R.M., Clark, B. (2016). Inactivation of the anterodorsal thalamic nuclei leads to navigational deficits in the radial arm maze. Poster presented at the Brain & Behavioral Health Institute’s Neuroscience day. Albuquerque, NM.

2015 Lawton C. A., Harvey R.E., Horton, A. H., Terry, C. A., Serna, C. E. (2015). Effects of video game experience on perceived self-motion in a stereoscopic display. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science. New York, NY.

2015 Lawton C. A., Harvey R.E., Horton, A. H., Terry, C. A., Serna, C. E. (2015). Sex Differences in Perceived Self-Movement in a Stereoscopic Head-Mounted Display. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

2015 Harvey R.E., Horton, A. H., Serna, C. E., Terry, C. A.(2015). Video game experience: Perception of self motion and motion sickness in the virtual world. 18th Annual Student Research And Creative Endeavor Symposium. Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2015.

2014 Harvey R.E. & Yoder, R. M. (2014). Previous training improves egocentric navigation performance in otoconia-deficient mice. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

2014 Lawton, C. A., Brockman, S. N., Goebel, E. A., Long, A. M., Phillips, E. L., Harvey R.E., Kirby, S. L., & Rosbrugh, H. H. (2014). Sex, handedness, and virtual navigation. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

2014 Harvey R.E. (2014). Pretraining improves egocentric navigation performance in otoconia-deficient mice.17th Annual Student Research And Creative Endeavor Symposium. Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2014.

2013 Kirby, S. L., Harvey R.E., Goebel, E. A., Köppen, J. R., Wallace, D. G., & Yoder, R. M. (2013) Head direction signal degradation impairs spatial learning. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

2013 Harvey R.E. & Yoder, R. M. (2013). Finding Their Way in Space: An Alternative Strategy Improves Navigation Performance in Otoconia-Deficient Mice. Poster presented at the 29th American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, Orlando, FL.

2013 Kirby, S. L., Harvey R.E., & Yoder, R. M. (2013). Head direction signal degradation contributes to navigation impairments. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

2013 Harvey R.E. & Yoder, R. M. (2013). The head direction signal contributes to accurate navigation in darkness. Program No. 16. 16th Annual Student Research And Creative Endeavor Symposium. Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2013.

Editorial service

Co-reviewer

2020 Wellcome Open Research

2019 Frontiers neural circuits

2017 Current biology

2017 Behavioral brain research

Teaching

2017 Guest Lecture, Brain and Behavior, University of New Mexico

2016 Graduate Assistant, Brain and Behavior, University of New Mexico

2015 Guest Lecture, Aging and Dementia, University of New Mexico

2015 Graduate Assistant, Introductory Psychology, University of New Mexico

2013 Teaching Assistant, Psychobiology, Purdue University

2012 Teaching assistant, Introductory Psychology, Purdue University

Mentorship

2020 Katie James, Undergraduate Research Assistant

2019 Monica Goncalves Garcia, Undergraduate Research Assistant (Now a Grad Student at UNM – Hamilton lab)

2017-2019 Jacob Ring, Honors Student

2017 Danielle Benthem, Psych 499 Student (Now a Grad Student at FSU – Wilber lab)

2016-2018 Joshua Rysanek, Undergraduate Research Assistant (Now with Teach For America)

2016-2019 Jonathan Goss, Psych 499 Student (Now a Lab Technician at UNM — Clark Lab)

2016-2017 Tanner Rigg, Work Study Student (Now a Post-bacc at NIAAA – Holmes lab)

2016 Kharli Brockmeier, Undergraduate Research Assistant

2016 Landri Medina, Undergraduate Research Assistant

2015-2017 Elizabeth Sneddon, Psych 499 Student (Now a Grad Student at Miami U – Radke lab)

2015-2017 Shannon Thompson, Post-bacc (Now a Grad Student at Miami U – McMurray lab)

2015-2016 Lilliana Sanchez, Post-bacc (Now a Graduate Student at UNM — Clark Lab)

2015 Sierra Yazzie, Undergraduate Research Assistant

Outreach

2016-2019 New Mexico Brain Bee (organizing volunteer and judge)

2016 Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion STEAM-H (speaker)

2016 NeuroExpo ABQ at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History (presenter)

Membership

2013-present Society for neuroscience

2017 Research Society on Alcoholism

2015 Association for Psychological Science

2013-2015 Midwestern Psychological Association

2013 American Society for Gravitational and Space Research

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), 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.

Python, Matlab, & R for analysis and management of electrophysiological and behavioral data

Tissue preparation, staining, and immunohistochemistry