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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 , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, October 2020 –

Education

Doctor of philosophy (PhD, Medical Sciences, Neuroscience), Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2013 - 2019, , . 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.

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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.

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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) - , 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, , 2015- 2019.

• Ethics Rapporteur – Human Brain Project, for Sub-project 6 (SP6), Brain Simulation Platform, European Commission, 2018-2020.

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