Each year, fellows at NIMH have the opportunity to share their work at the NIMH IRP Fellow's Training Day. Post-bacs and post-docs present posters and oral presentations to the NIMH community, giving them the opportunity to foster potential collaboration and build community within NIMH. This year, SFIM post-bacs presented the following posters at Training Day:

  • Cassie Levesque: Afterimages as a method of inducing perceptual reality monitoring errors
  • Esther Lin: Dissociating Feedforward and Feedback Processing of Illusory Face Detection using 7T fMRI
  • Marly Rubin: rt-cog: real-time fMRI monitoring of brain activity and cognitive processes
  • Plyfaa Suwanamalik-Murphy: Examining How Spontaneous Eye Measures Indicate Conscious and Unconscious Sensory Neural Processing
  • Stephanie Swegle: Characterizing CSF volume change as a function of brain activation and alertness at 7T

    • In addition to her poster, Plyfaa Suwanamalik-Murphy was also selected to give an oral presentation on her work with Sharif Kronemer, entitled "The Eyes Know What the Brain Hears."

    Plyfaa giving her Training Day Talk


    We're also excited to share that Sharif Kronemer was announced as the winner of the 2025 Julius Axelrod Memorial Fellowship for Basic Research. This award is presented to an outstanding IRP post-doctoral, research or clinical fellow with the goal of commemorating scientific achievements and facilitate their career growth and development. The winner of this award receives a supplement to help support ongoing research and a travel award.

    Sharif Kronemer - Axelrod Award