Mr Ayan Mandal University positionPhD student Mr Ayan Mandal is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students. DepartmentsInstitutesResearch ThemesInterestsOur work leverages recent advances in network neuroscience and imaging-genetics to better understand the origins, migration patterns, and cognitive consequences of glioma brain tumours. By uncovering the special pathways along which gliomas travel around the human brain, we hope to inspire the development of novel treatments and resection strategies to curb the dismal prognosis of these type of tumours. Prior to my PhD, I worked on mapping the brain regions important for speech error monitoring in patients with aphasia, and on probing the effects of a high risk gene for Alzehimer's disease on neuronal synchrony among mouse hippocampal cultures. Research Focus
EquipmentMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Neuropsychological testing Collaborators
Associated News ItemsKey publicationsMandal AS, Romero-Garcia R, Hart MG, Suckling J (in press), “Genetic, cellular, and connectomic characterization of the brain regions commonly plagued by glioma” Brain Publications2020Mandal AS, Fama ME, Skipper-Kallal LM, DeMarco AT, Lacey EH, Turkeltaub PE (2020), “Brain structures and cognitive abilities important for the self-monitoring of speech errors” Neurobiology of Language 1(3): 319:338 2018Xing S, Mandal AS, Lacey EH, Skipper-Kallal LM, Zeng J, Turkeltaub PE (2018), “Behavioral effects of chronic gray and white matter stroke lesions in a functionally defined connectome for naming” Neurorehabilitation and neural repair 32(6-7): 613-623 |