Amy Monasterio

7th year neuroscience PhD student at BU. studying the dynamics of memory in the hippocampus. DSPAN Fellow & 2p enthusiast 🐭🧠🔬

[Jim Heys @jamesgheys1]

I’m very excited to share our new paper, led by the very talented Jack Bowler, a postdoc in the lab!

https://t.co/JCjF0EyUer

We all know that the way we learn something matters. But how does a training curriculum actually shape how the brain learns to solve a problem? a 🧵 1/N

[Jim Heys @jamesgheys1]

Excited to share new work from our lab at #SfN2025! @SfNtweets

Posters span how the brain learns about time and space—from foraging and MEC dynamics, to RNN + hippocampus in curriculum learning, to MTL vs striatal activity across learning, and cognitive aging.

Check them out!

[bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv_neursci]

Three-photon population imaging of subcortical brain regions https://t.co/GZMydvaBjs #biorxiv_neursci

[Amy Monasterio @ameswithabrain]

And that’s a wrap on there and back again: a hobbits journey through her PhD 🌋

[Amy Monasterio @ameswithabrain]

Happy to share I did the thing! Thank you to all my mentors especially @okaysteve @denisejcai Ben Gabe @HasselmoMichael!

[Amy Monasterio @ameswithabrain]

Thank you to both labs and everyone who tuned in!

[Joe Zaki @mysteriousjoe_]

I’m happy to share my main PhD work now published! 🥳🥳🥳 We found that a salient emotional experience can be linked with a memory from days ago, and this linking occurs through co-activity of the two memory representations during a period of rest.

[Amy Monasterio @ameswithabrain]

Excited to join a great community of DSPAN trainees and I couldn't have done any of it without the support of the best mentors! 👩‍🔬🔬 @okaysteve @gehirnkarte