CV

Education

• Ph.D in Biology, Neuroscience concentration, Lehigh University, 2025 (expected)
• M.S. in Biology, with distinction, California State University Fresno, 2019
• B.S. in Biology, California State University Fresno, 2017

Work experience

• Research Assistant, 08/2019—Present
  • Lehigh University
  • Thesis title: “”
  • Supervisor: Julie S. Haas, PhD.
• Research Assistant, 08/2017—07/2019
  • California State University Fresno
  • Thesis title: “Modelling Perception, Learning and Memory in Ant Visual Navigation”
  • Supervisor: David D. Lent, PhD.

Awards

Lehigh University Thorne Fellowship, Fall 2022

Lehigh University College of Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship, Summer 2022

Skills

Computational modelling and neural data analysis

Expertise in excitable (Hodgkin-Huxley) neural point models

Programming:

• Julia
• Matlab

Publications

Cell-specific inhibitory modulation of sound processing in the auditory thalamus

S. Rolón-Martínez, A.J. Mendoza, C.F. Angeloni, R. Chen, J.S. Haas, M.N. Geffen. (2024). "Cell-specific inhibitory modulation of sound processing in the auditory thalamus." BioRxiv. DOI:

Intrinsic Sources and Functional Impacts of Asymmetry at Electrical Synapses

Austin J. mendoza and Julie S. Haas. (2022). "Intrinsic Sources and Functional Impacts of Asymmetry at Electrical Synapses." eNeuro. 9 (2). DOI:

Talks

Understanding variations in MGB tone responses due to TRN synaptic connectivity

November 01, 2023

Poster at Society for Neuroscinece 2023, Washington, DC

Sensory attention and modulation by TRN subnetwork connectivity

April 14, 2023

Talk at Lehigh University, Department of Biological Sciences, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania