Brett Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Belmont, Massachusetts, United States

- Research assistant in the Behavioral Genetics Lab of Dr. Bill Carlezon- Using pharmacological, behavioral, and molecular techniques to study the interaction between stress and sleep

- Conducted EEG research under the direction of Michelle Greene, Ph.D.- Performed supervised machine learning analysis of EEG data in MATLAB and Python- Presented my research titled “Early Visual Activity in EEG Reflects Semantic Scene Category Similarity” at Object, Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Conference in Boston, Massachusetts and was awarded Best Talk

- Conducted research in Steven Shabel’s lab, under the mentorship of Srijani Biswas- Used fiber photometry to study the Gpi-LHb PV+ projection in mice in response to reward and reward omission- Synthesized findings for my senior thesis titled “Parvalbumin positive Gpi to LHb projection activity in response to reward and reward omission”