Education:
Carleton College
Psychology and Biology majors, Neuroscience minor
B.A., 2014
MSTP Student Governance:
- Student Advisory Committee, 2023-2025 (chair 2024-2025)
- Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2024-2025
- Women in Science and Medicine, 2024-2025 (co-chair 2024-2025)
Thesis Advisor: Alik Widge, M.D., Ph.D.
Publications
For work prior to the UMN MSTP:
P, Human hippocampal and entorhinal neurons encode the temporal structure of experience. Nature. 2024 Nov;635(8037):160-167.
Alger JR, O'Neill J, O'Connor MJ, Kalender G, Ly R, Ng A, Dillon A, Narr KL, Loo SK, Levitt JG. Neuroimaging of Supraventricular Frontal White Matter in Children with Familial Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Due to Prenatal Alcohol Exposure. Neurotox Res. 2021 Aug;39(4):1054-1075.
Kilpatrick LA, Joshi SH, O'Neill J, Kalender G, Dillon A, Best KM, Narr KL, Alger JR, Levitt JG, O'Connor MJ. Cortical gyrification in children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and prenatal alcohol exposure. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 Aug 1;225:108817.
O'Neill J, O'Connor MJ, Kalender G, Ly R, Ng A, Dillon A, Narr KL, Loo SK, Alger JR, Levitt JG. Combining neuroimaging and behavior to discriminate children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder with and without prenatal alcohol exposure. Brain Imaging Behav. 2021 Jun 5. Online ahead of print.
Mankin EA, Aghajan ZM, Schuette P, Tran ME, Tchemodanov N, Titiz A, Kalender G, Eliashiv D, Stern J, Weiss SA, Kirsch D, Knowlton B, Fried I, Suthana N. Stimulation of the right entorhinal white matter enhances visual memory encoding in humans. Brain Stimul. 2021 Jan-Feb;14(1):131-140.
Levitt JG, Kalender G, O'Neill J, Diaz JP, Cook IA, Ginder N, Krantz D, Minzenberg MJ, Vince-Cruz N, Nguyen LD, Alger JR, Leuchter AF. Dorsolateral prefrontal γ-aminobutyric acid in patients with treatment-resistant depression after transcranial magnetic stimulation measured with magnetic resonance spectroscopy. J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2019 Nov 1;44(6):386-394. PMCID: PMC6821508