Tyler James Wishard

Hi, my name's Ty. I'm an MS1 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, with a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.S. in Physiology & Neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego. 

For my doctoral education, I was co-mentored by Dr. Nanthia Suthana and Dr. Susan Bookheimer at UCLA. My thesis investigated the neural correlates and causal outcomes of cognitive and memory-related systems in the aging human brain, using multimodal MRI to determine age-related biomarkers and applying neuromodulation to improve cognitive outcomes for older adults (Wishard et al., 2022), titled “Human Entorhinal-Hippocampal Structure in Aging & Stimulation Mediated Episodic Memory Enhancement.”

For my predoctoral education, I was mentored by Dr. Hollis Cline at the TSRI Dorris Neuroscience Center. During the last two years of my undergraduate, I was supported by an NIH MARC U*STAR (T34) training award. Through a summer research experience, I worked with Dr. Carlos Aizenman at Brown University. My senior thesis examined the neuronal, electrophysiological, and circuit-level effects of protein dysregulation during neurodevelopment, titled “Developing an in vivo Disease Model to Study Fragile X Syndrome in Xenopus laevis Tadpoles.”

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