About the Summer Research Institute

• Biology  (Faculty Representative: Professor Jon Snow)
• Chemistry (Faculty Representative: Professor Christian Rojas)
• Cognitive Science (Faculty Representative: Professor John Morrison)
• Computer Science (Faculty Representative: Professor Smaranda Mursesan)
• Environmental Science (Faculty Representative: Professor Elizabeth Cook)
• Mathematics & Statistics (Faculty Representative: Professor Daniela De Silva)
• Neuroscience & Behavior (Faculty Representative: Professor John Glendinning)
• Physics and Astronomy (Faculty Representative: Professor Reshmi Mukherjee)
• Psychology (Faculty Representative: Professor Kate Thorson)

About one-third of SRI students in a given summer work with mentors whose academic home is at Barnard College. All other students work with mentors at Columbia (including the Medical School, Mailman School of Public Health, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Zuckerman Institute, and others), NYU, the Icahn School, The Rockefeller University, and many others across New York City. Below, find a list of Barnard mentors participating in SRI this year:

Biology

• Bauer, Elizabeth, ebauer@barnard.edu (Neural mechanisms underlying emotional memory)
• Callahan, Hilary, hcallahan@barnard.edu (Ecological genetics)
• Glendinning, John, jglendin@barnard.edu (Chemical senses, ingestive behavior, food likes and dislikes)
• Mansfield, Jennifer, jmansfield@barnard.edu (Developmental genetics, Vertebrate development)
• Miranda, JJ, jmiranda@barnard.edu (Genome organization of human viruses associated with cancer)
• Morton, Brian, bmorton@barnard.edu (Evolution of plastid DNA)
• Pischedda, Alison, apischedda@barnard.edu, (Evolutionary Genetics & Animal Behavior)
• Resetarits, Emlyn, eresetarits@barnard.edu (Aquatic Ecology, Parasitology, Invertebrate Zoology)
• Snow, Jonathan, jsnow@barnard.edu (The cellular stress responses of the honey bee)

Chemistry

• Austin, Rachel, raustin@barnard.edu, Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry C-H and C-O bond activation Inorganic neurochemistry
• Buzzeo, Marisa, mbuzzeo@barnard.edu, Biological Physical Chemistry (The Buzzeo group uses electrochemical techniques to study fundamental properties and develop sensing applications of redox-active biological molecules.)
• Campbell, Michael, mcampbell@barnard.edu, Inorganic Chemistry (The Campbell group studies structure/function relationships in transition metal complexes and materials, for applications including catalysis and chemical sensing.)
• Crowther, Andrew, acrowthe@barnard.edu, Vibrational Properties of Nanomaterials, Chemistry of Graphene, Raman Spectroscopy, Reaction Dynamics
• Rojas, Christian, crojas@barnard.edu, Organic Synthesis (Rojas and his students develop and apply new reactions for organic chemical synthesis, especially in the area of amino sugar synthesis. Another current interest is working with Prof. Christina Vizcarra's group on the synthesis of small-molecule inhibitors of actin assembly)
• Vizcarra, Christina, cvizcarra@barnard.edu, Biochemistry (The Vizcarra lab studies the biochemical mechanisms of proteins that regulate the cytoskeleton, with wide-ranging applications in metalloneurochemistry, the auditory system, and drug discovery.)

Cognitive Science

• Morrison, John, jmorrison@barnard.edu (identifying general principles for attributing representations and inferences to the brain, especially when those representations and inferences involve probabilities)
• Senghas, Ann, asenghas@barnard.edu (researching the ways in which language learners and language users create ordered systems from disordered input and how this ability develops over the lifespan

Computer Science

• Muresan, Smaranda, smuresan@barnard.edu (Human-Centric Natural Language Processing)
• Simko, Lucy, lsimko@barnard.edu (Usable Privacy and Security)
• Toler-Franklin, Corey, ctolerfr@barnard.edu (Computer Vision & Graphics, Biomedical AI)
• Tseng, Tiffany, ttseng@barnard.edu (HCI, Creativity Support Tools, Learning Technologies)

Environmental Science

• Cook, Elizabeth, ecook@barnard.edu (Sustainability and Urban Ecology)   
• Mailloux, Brian, bmailloux@barnard.edu (Arsenic in groundwater, Geomicrobiology)

Math & Statistics

• Knizel, Alisa, aknizel@barnard.edu (Probability/Statistics)
• Students should be in touch with Barnard Faculty Department Rep Daniela De Silva (ddesilva@barnard.edu) to discuss possibilities of working with Columbia University mentors.

Neuroscience & Behavior

• ​Balsam, Peter, pbalsam@barnard.edu (Adapting behavior to changing environments)
• Bauer, Elizabeth, ebauer@barnard.edu (Neural mechanisms underlying emotional memory)
• Casey, BJ, bcasey@barnard.edu
• Fernandez, Maria, mfernand@barnard.edu (Neural mechanisms underlying aggressive behavior and territoriality and the relation between the circadian clock and social behaviors, using Drosophila melanogaster as a model system)
• Glendinning, John, jglendin@barnard.edu (Chemical senses, ingestive behavior, food likes and dislikes)
• Gutierez, Gabrielle, ggutierr@barnard.edu
• Romeo, Russell, rromeo@barnard.edu (Effects of pubertal maturation on brain and behavior)
• Silver, Rae, rsilver@barnard.edu
• White, Alex, alwhite@barnard.edu (Visual perception, attention & reading)

Physics & Astronomy

• Halpin-Healy, Timothy, healy@phys.columbia.edu, (Phase transitions, critical phenomena, and the renormalization group)
• Mukherjee, Reshmi, muk@astro.columbia.edu (High-energy astrophysics and astroparticle physics)

Psychology

• Greene, Michelle, mgreene@barnard.edu, (cognitive psychology; visual perception)

• Koleen McCrink, kmccrink@barnard.edu (cognitive development; mathematical and spatial cognition)

• Thorson, Katherine, kthorson@barnard.edu (psychological and psychophysiological reactions during interpersonal interactions)