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.