Gina is a Professor Director of Maximizing Access to Research Careers U*STAR Program. She has been working since 1995 on the mechanisms through which sleep serves memory consolidation and restructuring. Dr. Poe is a southern California native who graduated from Stanford University then worked for two post-baccalaureate years at the VA researching Air Force Test Pilots’ brainwave signatures under high-G maneuvers. She then earned her PhD in Basic Sleep in the Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program at UCLA under the guidance of Ronald Harper then moved to the University of Arizona for her postdoctoral studies with Carol Barnes and Bruce McNaughton looking at graceful degradation of hippocampal function in aged rats as well as hippocampal coding in a 3-D maze navigated in the 1998 space shuttle mission!
David received his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Southern California in 2016, where he worked with Dr. Mara Mather to study emotion-cognition interactions. He then conducted a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Lila Davachi at NYU and Columbia University, where he studied how episodic memories are constructed from continuous experience. Before attending graduate school, he received a B.S. degree in Biopsychology with a minor in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
This prize recognizes ICLM post-doctoral fellows and graduate students who made significant contributions to our community. ICLM Faculty members can send nominations to silvaa@mednet.ucla.edu.
The 2018 recipient of the ICLM Science Prize is Megha Sehgal, a post-doctoral fellow who was recognized for her tireless efforts to coordinate the sharing of techniques and approaches for UCLA users of the head-mounted fluorescent microscopes developed at UCLA. She has also contributed significantly to the dissemination of these technologies within our community and elsewhere by helping to teach a number of workshops.