CAPÍTULO II: CANTO Y CAMBIO EMOCIONAL
2. Educación emocional
Eva Aimable Naumann
Contact Information:
16, Divinity Avenue, room 2073 Cambridge, MA 02143 Mobile: 001-857-233-8701
Lab: 001-617-384-9773
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Date of Birth: 16th September 1978, Germany
Nationality: German, Permanent Resident of USA
Education:
August 2005 – present:
PhD candidate at Ludwig Maximillian University/MPI for Neurobiology, Munich, Germany
- Research at Harvard University, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Prof. Florian Engert
January 2005:
MSc. (Diploma) in Biology, Universität Konstanz, Germany
- Exchange semester 2003/04 Portland State University, OR, USA
November 2001:
BSc. (Prediploma) in Biology Universität Konstanz, Germany January – June 1999:
Studium Generale Universite Stendahl, Grenoble, France
Fall semester 1998:
German Literature, University of Kassel, Germany 1989 – 1998:
Friedrichsgymnasium Kassel, Germany (humanistic, classical language highschool) - Abitur (High school degree), Majors: Art, Biology, and German Literature
Relevant Research and Teaching Experience:
Summer 2010:
Grass Fellow: Independent Research Position at the Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, USA “Neural correlates of behavioral variability. How the brain changes behavior”
Development of behavioral paradigms to study the necessary behavioral variability in reinforcement learning.
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Spring 2010:
Teaching fellow: Harvard OEB57: Animal Behavior (Prof. N. Pierce & B.P.Olvezcky)
Fall 2009:
Teaching fellow: Harvard MCB145: Neurobiology of Perception and Decision Making (Prof. N. Uchida)
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April 2009:
Coordinator of the Mind Brain Behavior Senior Honor Thesis workshops (MBB Harvard)
Fall 2008:
Teaching fellow: Harvard MCB145: Neurobiology of Perception and Decision Making (Prof. N.Uchida) Spring 2008 – Spring 2009:
Supervision of Honor Thesis Research: Student, Annie Xiao Wang
“Using GFP-aequorin to study the role of serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nuclei of larval zebrafish”
Spring 2008:
Teaching fellow: Harvard MCB105: Systems Neuroscience (Prof. F.Engert)
April 2008:
Coordinator of the Mind Brain Behavior Senior Honor Thesis workshops (MBB Harvard) Fall 2007:
Group leader/teaching fellow in undergraduate research course: Harvard LS100 (Prof. A. Viel)
“Experimental Neuroscience: Expression and two photon imaging of fluorescent probes in larval zebrafish” Spring 2007:
Teaching fellow: Harvard Science B-29: Evolution of Human Nature (Prof. M. Hauser and Prof. J. Dowling) Interdisciplinary Introduction in Psychology/Neuroscience/Evolution.
Fall 2006:
Teaching fellow, Harvard MCB 117: Experimental Neuroscience (Prof. F. Engert) Practical and theoretical introduction to microscopy in modern neuroscience
August 2005 - August 2006:
PhD Candidate at Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Munich, Germany Computational and Systems Neurobiology Group (Prof. A. Borst/ Prof. O. Griesbeck)
Comparison of different FRET based genetically encoded Calcium indicators in rat hippocampal neurons
(Primary neuronal cell culture, Patch Clamp, Calcium imaging, Programming in Labview)
2004 - 2005:
Diplomarbeit (Master Thesis) in Prof. Engert Laboratory, MCB Harvard:
“Using G-CaMP 1.6 to Monitor Visually-Evoked Synaptic Activity in Tectal Neurons in vivo” (molecular biology, genetically encoded Calcium indicators, anatomy, 2-photon microscopy)
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Summer 2003:
Laboratory assistant, University Lausanne, Switzerland (Prof. L. Keller)
Competition over local resources between queens and males: Testing the queen-replenishment hypothesis to understand the colony sex ratio investment in the highly polygynous ant Formica exsecta. (Field work, quantitative and statistical analysis of sex ratio, molecular biology, kin selection)
Spring 2003:
Laboratory assistant in Developmental Neurobiology Lab, University Konstanz (Prof. C. Stuermer)
Differential expression of reggie genes1a, 1b, 2a, 2b in the central nervous system during early
zebrafish (Dario rerio) development.
(Anatomy, immunohistochemistry, morpholino analysis)
Spring 2002:
Laboratory assistant in Evolutionary Biology Lab, University Konstanz, Germany: (Prof. A. Meyer)
Polymorphic DNA microsatellites in the poisonous frog species Heterixalus and Mantella madagascariensis
(Genomic DNA isolation, molecular clock genes, comparative phylogenomic analysis)
Fall 2001:
Teaching Fellow: Introduction to Cell Biology, University Konstanz, Germany: (Prof. H. Plattner) Section and Discussion for Cell biology 1 and 2
Publications & Posters:
“In vivo Ca2+ imaging of neural activity throughout the zebrafish brain during visual discrimination” Eva A. Naumann, Adam R. Kampff, and Florian Engert
Conference Abstract: Computational and systems neuroscience 2010. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.03.00328
“Monitoring Neural Activity with Bioluminescence during Natural Behavior”
Eva A. Naumann, Adam R. Kampff, David A. Prober, Alexander F. Schier and Florian Engert
Nature Neuroscience 13 513-20 (2010)
“In vivo calcium imaging of perceptual decision related neural activity within zebrafish brain by in vivo”
Eva A. Naumann, Adam R. Kampff, and Florian Engert
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting (Poster Presentation) 2009:
”Neuroluminescent Zebrafish: Using Aequorin to monitor the activity of genetically identified neurons in behaving animals”
Eva A. Naumann, Adam R. Kampff, David A. Prober, Alexander F. Schier and Florian Engert Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting (Poster Presentation) 2007:
“Using G-CaMP 1.6 to Monitor Visually-Evoked Synaptic Activity in Tectal Neurons in vivo”
Eva A. Naumann Diplomarbeit (Master Thesis)
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Fellowships and Awards:
March 2010: “Grass Fellowship 2010” Fall 2009: Fall 2003:
“The Baden-Württemberg Scholarship”
Extracurricular:
2007-8 Ultimate Frisbee Harvard’s women’s team (Quasar)
2002 –2005 ski instructor for the German Alps Club, Ultimate Frisbee team University of Konstanz 2002 June-September: Bicycle Tour Eastern Europe (Konstanz, Germany –Istanbul, Turkey)
2002 Academic year: Member of Student Senate University Konstanz, Germany (Environmental group) 2001 June-September: Bicycle Tour West Europe (Konstanz, Germany –Cordoba, Spain)
1999 Aug.- Oct. PADI Dive Master for VISA DIVERS, Kho Phi Phi, Thailand 1999 Spring: Volunteer Amata Bird Sanctuary, Chonburi, Thailand
1998 Summer: Camp Counselor in Camp Robin Hood, ME, USA (arts, lifeguard, crew) 1997 Fall: Exhibition in former communist KGB prison, Potsdam, Germany
1998 DLRG life guard
1995-1997 Occasional Icelandic horse trainer, Stud Karstens, Schneeverdingen, Germany 1992-1997 Crew instructor for Friedrichsgymnasium, Kassel
Other Interests:
Everything about human nature and culture, Art, Psychology, Surfing, Yoga, Skiing, Ski touring, Snowboarding, Sailing, Cooking, Ultimate Frisbee, German literature, Modern Dance, Music, Traveling, Life.
Computer Skills:
Labview, Matlab, and C++ (incl. OpenGL), excellent Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator skills
Languages:
German: Native language English: Fluent
French: conversational Italian and Spanish: basic Latin: Extensive
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E
HRENWÖRTLICHEV
ERSICHERUNG UNDE
RKLÄRUNGIch, Eva Aimable Naumann, versichere hiermit ehrenwörtlich, dass die vorgelegte Dissertation von mir selbstständig und ohne unerlaubte Beihilfe angefertigt wurde.
Hiermit erkläre ich, dass ich mich nicht anderweitig einer Doktorarbeit ohne Erfolg
unterzogen habe und die vorliegende Arbeit nicht bei einer anderen Hochschule eingereicht habe.
______________________________________________ Eva Aimable Naumann