FIRST Fellow
Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biology
Emory National Primate Research Center
Division of Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatric Disorders
Email
Twitter: @TheTommyLee
Education
- Morehouse and Harvard Partnership in Neuroscience Growth (MAHPING) Pedagogy Fellow, 2023 - Present
- FIRST Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 2022 - Present
- Ph.D., Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2022
- M.S., Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2016
- B.S., Biological Sciences and Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2014
Teaching
FIRST Partner Institutions: Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College
Teaching Mentors:
- Morris Benveniste, PhD, Professor and Director of the BS/MS Program in Neuroscience, Morehouse School of Medicine
- Tina Chang, PhD, Chair and Associate Professor, Morehouse College
- Mark Lee, PhD, Associate Professor and NSF PULSE Fellow, Spelman College
- Chris Markham, PhD, Associate Professor, Morehouse College
- Kai McCormack, PhD, Chair and Associate Professor, Spelman College
Teaching Mentor Affiliate:
- Taralyn Tan, PhD, Assistant Dean for Educational Innovation and Scholarship and Lecturer on Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Courses taught:
- Neuroscience of Love (Spelman College and Morehouse College)
- Learning and Memory Lab (Morehouse College)
- Future of Innovative Neuroscience (Morehouse School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School)
Research
Research: Elucidating neural mechanisms for encoding, consolidating, and retrieving long-term social memories
Research Mentors:
- Robert Liu, PhD, Professor, Department of Biology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
- Gordon Berman, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
- Larry Young, PhD, William P. Timmie Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatric Disorders, Emory National Primate Research Center
Publications
Lee SLT, Troha R, Stevenson IH, Markus EJ (Under review). Rat dorsal and intermediate hippocampus: Similarity in processing novelty despite differences in spatial tuning.
Lee SLT, Timmerman BM, Pflomm JR, Roy N, Kumar M, Markus EJ (2023). Sequential order spatial memory in male rats: Characteristics and impact of medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus disruption. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2023.107739
Troha R, Gowda M, Lee SLT, Markus EJ (2023). Observational learning in rats: Interplay between demonstrator and observer behavior. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2023.109807
Lee SLT, Ahmed S, Horbal L, Pietruszewski TA, Hu Q, Markus EJ (2022). Social factors influence solo and rat dyads exploration of an unfamiliar open field. Animal Cognition. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-022-01664-y
Lee SLT, Lew D, Wickenheisser V, Markus EJ (2019). Interdependence between dorsal and ventral hippocampus during spatial navigation. Brain and Behavior. DOI: 10.1002/brb3.1410