I'm a neuroscientist and independent data scientist.
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Experience
2023-present Climatematch Academy 🌎 🌍 🌏 Matching lead
2022-present neuromatch.social 🌎 🌍 🌏 Owner/admin and moderator
2022-present Neuromatch Data Analytics 🌎 🌍 🌏 Member of the advisory board
2022-present The Echo Network 🌎 🌍 🌏 Research analyst
2022 Neuromatch Academy 🌎 🌍 🌏 Executive Committee Member and Chair of Operations (COO)
2021–present 🌎 🌍 🌏 Research associate and remote computational neuroscience consultant
2021 Neuromatch Academy – Deep Learning Course 🌎 🌍 🌏 Discord Server Moderator and Interactive Student
2021 Neuromatch Academy – Computational Neuroscience Course 🌎 🌍 🌏 Project Mentor, Discord Server Moderator, Video and English Captions Editor
2019–2020 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 🇺🇸 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology
2018–2019 INSERM, Paris, France 🇫🇷 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut du Fer à Moulin (IFM)
2015 National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India 🇮🇳 Teaching Assistant, Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity (CAMP) International Summer School
2014 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA 🇺🇸 J1 Short-term Scholar for attending 1) Neural Systems & Behavior and 2) Methods in Computational Neuroscience courses
2011–2018 Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India 🇮🇳 Graduate Student, Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Biophysics Unit
2011 Intel Technology Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India 🇮🇳 Intern, Visual and Parallel Processing Group
Skills
Data Analysis
Time-series neural ephys signal processing and analysis using Matlab, R, Igor Pro, Python
Calcium imaging analysis in Matlab
Behavioral video analysis using EthoVision and DeepLabCut
Decoding, classification, and prediction models using machine learning and deep learning tools in Python
Computational Neuroscience
Single neuron and network modeling
Multiscale biophysical modeling of morphologically realistic neurons in the NEURON simulation environment
Hodgkin-Huxley-type and Markovian modeling of ion channels using NMODL and NEURON
Modeling of local field potentials (LFP) using line source approximation technique in NEURON, Matlab, and Python
Experimental Neuroscience
Stereotactic neurosurgery (rodents)
In vivo electrophysiological recordings using silicon probes in rodents under different behavioral states
EEG and fiber photometry recordings from rodents
Behavioral training of rodents for learning and memory tasks
Drug injection protocols (i.p., s.c.)
Stereotactic viral injections in the rodent brain
Flourescence miscroscopy
Neural tissue slicing using cryostat and microtome/vibratome
General
Teaching and mentorship
Figure illustration using Adobe Illustrator, Matlab, Igor Pro and Matplotlib
Audio/Video/Caption Editing for YouTube using Audacity and WeVideo
Project management using agile and waterfall methodologies
Select Awards and Funding
EMBO travel grant for attending the DENDRITES 2018 meeting, Crete, Greece, 2018
Pratiksha Trust Travel Award for attending the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA, 2017
IISc Research Associate scholarship funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, 2016–2017
Shell India Computational Talent Prize – silver award at the High Performance Computing conference, Bangalore, 2015
US-Canada Regional Committee (USCRC) for International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) award to attend the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, 2015, Chicago, USA, and for a short visit to Prof. György Buzsáki’s laboratory at New York University, Langone Medical Center, USA, 2015
Scholarship to attend the Methods in Computational Neuroscience course at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA, 2014
Scholarship (funded by IBRO and Society for General Physiology Awards, USA) to attend the Neural Systems & Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA, 2014
Won the competitive Microsoft Research India PhD Fellowship, 2013–2016
"Active Dendrites and LFPs: Biophysical Mechanisms and Computational Explorations", Sinha and Narayanan, 2021, Neuroscience
"Unitary sources say: It is inhibition!", Sinha and Narayanan, 2020, The Journal of Physiology (London)
"HCN channels enhance spike phase coherence and regulate the phase of spikes and LFPs in the theta-frequency range", Sinha and Narayanan, 2015, PNAS
Talks
“Rhythmogenesis across scales: From physiology to pathology” at IFM, Paris, 2018
“An emergent model of hippocampal sharp wave ripple complexes reveals sublayer-specific stratified disparities” at the EMBO Workshop on Dendritic Anatomy, Molecules and Function, DENDRITES, Crete, Greece, 2018
“Regulation of local field potentials by subthreshold conductances” at the EuroSPIN meeting held at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, 2016
Best speaker award “Subthreshold conductances regulate theta-frequency local field potentials and spike phase” at the Molecular Biophysics Unit In-House Symposium: From Molecules to Behaviour, IISc, Bangalore, 2015
“Getting High and Feeling Low: Optogenetics, Reward and Depression”, at the Molecular Biophysics Unit Seminar Series, IISc, Bangalore, 2013
Contact
I'm available for consulting and remote positions/collaborations.
Contact me @ manisha.sinha8 [at] gmail.com or on Mastodon