Emily is a PhD student in the Dynamical Neuroscience (DYNS) program at UC Santa Barbara. She previously worked with EM connectomics datasets at Janelia and at the Allen Institute, where she conducted research in cell typing and neural circuitry in sensory areas. During this time, she also developed open-source tools to analyze neuronal morphology and connectivity.

Emily’s research is focused on understanding information processing in the bipolar cells of the retina for the purpose of improving prosthetics that stimulate these cells directly. To address this question, she is working on cell and circuit-level modeling of human retinal bipolar cells.

In her free time, she enjoys gardening, training her dogs and learning how to surf.