Jeremy Chang

Ph.D. candidate in neuroscience at Princeton Univeristy

jeremyjc@princeton.edu

Education

2018-present Princeton University

• Ph.D. Candidate, Neuroscience

2012-2016 Swarthmore College

• B.A., Biology and Studio Art

Honors and Awards

2018-2019 McDonnell Fellows in Neuroscience Graduate Fellowship

• Princeton University
• Named fellowship awarded by the Graduate School to select outstanding students for graduate support

2016 The Frank Solomon Jr. Student Art Purchase Fund

• Swarthmore College Associate Member
• Sigma XI

2015 Robert K. Enders Field Biology Award

• Swarthmore College
• Awarded annualy by the Biology Department to students shwoing great promise in biological field research
• Supported research at Harvard Univeristy during the summer of 2015

2014 Summer Experiential Fellowship

• Swarthmore College
• Supported research at Harvard Univeristy during the summer of 2014

Research Experience

2019-present Graduate Research Assistant, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ

• Advisor: David Tank
• Project: Mechanisms underlying the sequential code for time in the hippocampus.
• Developed methods for simultaneous focal cooling of brain regions and large-scale 2-photon imaging during head-fixed behavior in virtual reality.
• Designing experiments to test mechanisms underlying time cell sequences in the hippocampus.
• Implementing an explicit timing task in VR.

2018 Summer Research Intern, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Tokyo, Japan

• Advisor: Hokto Kazama
• Project: State-dependent modulation of sensory processing in the central brain of Drosophila.
• Used 2-photon microscopy to volumetrically image the mushroom body, a structure implicated in associative memory, in head-fixed behaving flies.
• Devised methods for flight and quiesence identification.
• Designed experiment to understand behavioral state-dependent olfactory responses.

2016-2018 Research Assistant, Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY

• Advisor: Rudy Behnia
• Project: Signal rectification in OFF pathway early visual motion processing in Drosophila melanogaster.
• Combined in vivo whole-cell patch clamp electrophysiology with microinjection of acetylcholine and glutamate.
• Conducted experiments to parse contributions of exictation and inhibition to activity in single OFF pathway cells (Tm1) during full-field flashes of light.

2014-2015 Undergraduate Researcher, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

• Advisors: James Crall, Stacey Combes
• Project: Landing and flight dynamics of bumblebees (Bombus impatiens).
• Appied high-speed 3D videography and image-based automatic tracking to free flight and landing sequences performed by bumblebees in a wind tunnel.
• Conceived, designed, and led experiments investigating the effect of wind on landing dyanmics.

2011-2013 Summer Research Intern, Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center, New York, NY

• Advisors: Victor Reuter, Samson Fine
• Clinical database streamlining, antibody characterization, staining protocol development, and immunohistochemical assays on tissue microarrays.

Publications

Journals

2017 Crall, J.D., Chang, J.J., Oppenheimer, R.L., & Combes, S.A. (2017). Foraging in an unsteady world: Bumblebee flight performance in field-realistic turbulence. Interface Focus. 7, 20160086. doi:10.1098/rsfs.2016.0086.

2016 Chang, J. J.^*, Crall, J. D.^*, & Combes, S. A. (2016). Wind alters landing dynamics in bumblebees. Journal of Experimental Biology. 219: 2819-2822. doi:10.1242/jeb.137976. *Equal contributed to this work.

2013 Gopalan, A., Leversha, M.A., Dudas, M.E., Maschino, A.C., Chang, J.J., Al-Ahmadie, H.A., Chen, Y.B., Tickoo, S.K., Reuter, V.E., & Fine, S.W. (2013). TMPRSS2–ERG rearrangement in dominant anterior prostatic tumours: incidence and correlation with ERG immunohistochemistry. doi:10.1111/his.12153. Histopathology. 63(2), 279-286.

Posters

2018 Chang, J.J. & Behnia, R. (2018). Direct synaptic excitation and inhibition underlie signal dynamics in an OFF pathway cell in Drosophila. RIKEN CBS Summer Program Poster Session, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan. Poster.

2016 Chang, J. J., Crall, J. D., & Combes, S. A. (2016). Bumblebees vary their landing strategy in the presence of wind. Int. and Comp. Biol. 56, E34-E34. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Portland, OR 2016. Oral presentation.

2015 Chang, J.J., Crall, J.D., & Combes, S.A. (2015). Bumblebees vary landing strategy in the presence of wind. Sigma Xi Student Research Poster Session, Swarthmore College. Poster.

Chang, J.J., Crall, J.D., & Combes, S.A. (2015). Touching Down Headfirst: Landing Strategies of Bumblebees in Variable Flow. Int. and Comp. Biol. 55(Suppl. 1), E232-E232. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, West Palm Beach, FL, 2015. Poster and conference abstract.

Crall J.D., Chang J.J., Mistick E.A., & Combes S.A. (2015). Free flight through tough turbulence: Bumblebee flight stability across body size, speed, and flow regime. Int. and Comp. Biol. 55(Suppl. 1), E240. Conference abstract.

Teaching Experience

2019 Assistant in Instruction, Mathematical Tools for Neuroscience (NEU 314), Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

• Taught two undergraduate precepts per week
• Designed and wrote problem set on fundamentals of programming (core Python and Julia, visualization) with applications to neuroscience

2020 Assistant in Instruction, Dynamics in Cognition (NEU 422), Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

• Designed select lecture materials for teaching primary literature in systems and computational neuroscience
• Revised computational problem sets on attractor models for place fields, network models for sequence generation in birdsong, and analysis of real cortical data

Service and Outreach

2015 Student presenter, Concord Field Station Workshop, Bedford, MA. A two day workshop on fieldwork and integrative approaches to research for primary and secondary school teachers. Presented research on insect landing.

2012-2013 Volunteer, Project Angkor, Cambodia. Conducted refraction and visual acuity tests, prescribed reading glasses, and observed surgeries for an ongoing humanitarian mission providing free healthcare, education, and training to the people of Cambodia.

Exhibitions (Art)

2016 Chang, J.J. (2016). Shapes and Veils. Senior Thesis Exhibition, Department of Art, Swarthmore College, List Gallery.

Specialized in

Skills Whole-cell patch clamp electrophysiology, multi-/single-photon imaging, animal behavior, focal cooling.

Software Fusion 360, Adobe suite.

Languages MATLAB, Python, Julia.

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Last updated: December 2021