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Shreyas M. Suryanarayana CURRICULUM VITAE 20/07/2020 Shreyas M. Suryanarayana, PhD Davenport House, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11728 Phone: +1 (516) 353 8227 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shreyas_M_Suryanarayana Current Postdoctoral researcher under Prof.Josh Huang, Department of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, October 2020 – Education Doctor of philosophy (PhD, Medical Sciences, Neuroscience), Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2013 - 2019, Stockholm, Sweden. Thesis: On the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate cortex; Defended Dec 6th, 2019. Supervisor: Prof. Sten Grillner; Opponent: Prof.Philippe Vernier Master of Science (MSc), Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, 2011 - 2012. Sheffield United Kingdom, Thesis: Basal Ganglia New Functional Architectures: Role of the GPe, Distinction (82/86). Supervisor: Prof. Kevin Gurney. Master of Engineering Studies Honours (MEStu), Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, 2010 - 2011. Auckland, New Zealand Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Industrial Engineering, National Institute of Engineering, 2004 - 2008. Mysore, India Invited Talks • Brain Research Institute 2015 - University and Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland. Title: “Evolutionary blueprint of cortical motor areas: The Lamprey Lateral Pallium”. • Motor Systems Symposium 2018 - Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla CA, USA. Title: “Connectivity, Cytoarchitecture, Visual, Somatosensory and Motor Maps in the Lamprey Lateral Pallium - A Primordial Vertebrate Cortex”. • 9th European Conference On Comparative Neurobiology 2019 - University of Murcia, Spain. Title: “The conserved lamprey forebrain - the Lateral Pallium”. • Gorden Research Conference on Thalamic Interactions 2020 – Ventura Marriot, Ventura California United States. Title: “Evolutionary origin of retinotopic and somatotopic representation in the thalamocortical system”. • Neuro-Evo: A Comparative Approach to Cracking Circuit Function III 2021- HHMI, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, USA. Shreyas M. Suryanarayana 1 CURRICULUM VITAE 20/07/2020 Peer-reviewed publications 1. Shreyas M. Suryanarayana, Juan Pérez-Fernández, Brita Robertson, Sten Grillner,The evolutionary origin of visual and somatosensory processing in the vertebrate pallium. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4, 639–651 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1137-2. (T) 2. J J Johannes Hjorth, Alexander Kozlov, Ilaria Carannante, Johanna Frost Nylén, Robert Lindroos, Yvonne Johansson, Anna Tokarska, Matthijs Dorst, Shreyas M Suryanarayana, Gilad Silberberg, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski and Sten Grillner, The microcircuits of striatum in silico. PNAS April 28, 2020 117 (17) 9554-9565; 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000671117. 3. Shreyas M. Suryanarayana, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, Sten Grillner, Kevin N. Gurney, Roles for globus pallidus externa revealed in a computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia, Neural Networks, Volume 109, 2019, Pages 113-136, ISSN 0893-6080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2018.10.003. 4. Shreyas M. Suryanarayana, Brita Robertson, Peter Wallén, Sten Grillner, The Lamprey Pallium Provides a Blueprint of the Mammalian Layered Cortex, Current Biology, Volume 27, Issue 21, 2017, Pages 3264-3277. e5, ISSN 0960-9822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.034. (T) 5. Francisco M. Ocaña*, Shreyas M. Suryanarayana*, Kazuya Saitoh, Andreas A. Kardamakis, Lorenza Capantini, Brita Robertson, Sten Grillner, The Lamprey Pallium Provides a Blueprint of the Mammalian Motor Projections from Cortex, Current Biology, Volume 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 413- 423, ISSN 0960- 9822. * Co-first authors. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.013. (T) 6. Ian Olson, Shreyas M. Suryanarayana, Brita Robertson, Sten Grillner, Griseum centrale, a homologue of the periaqueductal gray in the lamprey, IBRO Reports, Volume 2, 2017, Pages 24-30, ISSN 2451-8301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibror.2017.01.001. 7. Pérez-Fernández, J., Stephenson-Jones, M., Suryanarayana, S. M., Robertson, B., and Grillner, S. (2014), Evolutionarily conserved organization of the dopaminergic system in lamprey: SNc/VTA afferent and efferent connectivity and D2 receptor expression. J. Comp. Neurol., 522: 3775-3. https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.23639. (T) Doctoral Thesis Shreyas M. Suryanarayana (2019), “On the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate cortex”. Pages 1- 50. http://hdl.handle.net/10616/46813. Published Chapters 1. Brita Robertson, Andreas Kardamakis, Lorenza Capantini, Juan Pérez-Fernández, Shreyas M. Suryanarayana, Peter Wallén, Marcus Stephenson-Jones, Sten Grillner, Chapter 16 - The lamprey blueprint of the mammalian nervous system, Editor(s): Gert Holstege, Caroline M. Beers, Hari H. Subramanian, Progress in Brain Research, Elsevier, Volume 212, 2014, Pages 337-349, ISSN 0079- 6123, ISBN 9780444634887. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-63488-7.00016-1. Shreyas M. Suryanarayana 2 CURRICULUM VITAE 20/07/2020 Awards • Marie Curie Fellowship - European Commission, as part of the Marie Curie ITN “Moving Beyond”, EU-FP7 (Funding for PhD studies: 2013-2016). • Karolinska Institutet Travel Grant - Karolinska Institutet, awarded for 2017 and 2018. • Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) - Society for Neuroscience, USA, 2018. • FENS-IBRO/PERC travel grant - Federation of European neuroscience societies, 2018. • Best Poster Prize - School of Brain Cells & Circuits "Camillo Golgi" | Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice (Italy), December 2018. Administrative experience • Member - Graduate Education Committee, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, 2015- 2019. • Ethics Rapporteur – Human Brain Project, for Sub-project 6 (SP6), Brain Simulation Platform, European Commission, 2018-2020. Shreyas M. Suryanarayana 3 .
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