GRADUATE STUDENT
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
COGNITION, BRAIN & BEHAVIOR

UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND
BSC IN BEHAVIORAL BIOLOGY, (FIRST CLASS HONORS) 2017

THESIS TITLE:  The Concealed Fitness Costs of Neonicotinoid Insecticide Exposure in the Parasitoid Wasp Nasonia vitripennis

EMAIL: EMMALAURENT@G.HARVARD.EDU

RESEARCH

 I am interested in understanding the neural substrates of social behavior, their interactions with memory, and how these domains are modulated by affective context.

PUBLICATIONS

Laurent, E., Davidesco, I., Poeppel, D., Dikker, S. (in prep ). Inter-brain coupling distinguishes social- from stimulus-driven synchrony.

Laurent, E., Whitehorn, P., Cook, N., Shuker, D. (in prep ). The hidden costs of neonicotinoids in a pest-controlling wasp.

Davidesco, I., Laurent, E., Valk, H., West, T., Dikker, S. Milne, C., Poeppel, D. (in revision, Current Biology ). Brain-to-brain synchrony between students and teachers predicts learning outcomes. bioRxiv  644047; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/644047

Roberts, A., Alzagatiti, J., Ly, D., Chornak, J., Campbell, C., Razee A., Richards, J., Hoang, M., Alipio, J., Laurent, E., Kumar, A., Khan, U., Stark, R., Zavradyan, G., Baibussinov, A., Buck, R., Ma, Y., Jafarpour, A., Lewis, J., Natarajan, A., Garcia, M., Deutsch, E., Hernandez, S., Mendoza, S., Carmona, J., Agundez, B., Fink, A., Hussain, A., Arisaka, K., and Glanzman, D. (in press, eNeuro ). Induction of short-term sensitization by an aversive chemical stimulus in zebrafish larvae.

PRESENTATIONS

Davidesco, I., Wallisch, P., Azeka, S., Valk, H., Laurent, E., Suzuki, W., Dikker, S. (2020, July). Brainwaves: Portable EEG in neuroscience undergraduate education. Poster to be presented at the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research 2020 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.

Davidesco, I., Laurent, E., Valk, H., West, T., Dikker, S., Milne, C., Poeppel, D. (2019, October). Brain-to-brain synchrony predicts long-term memory retention more accurately than individual brain measures. Talk presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Davidesco, I., Laurent, E., Azeka, S., Valk, H., Dikker, S., Suzuki, W., (2019, October). Brainwaves: An EEG-based neuroscience program. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Dikker, S., Valk, H., Laurent, E., Morrison, D., Burgas, K., Azeka, S., Brooks, T., Suzuki, W., Davidesco, I., Poeppel, D. (2019, March). mindHIVE: An accessible cognitive neuroscience research platform for students and researchers. Talk and poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2019 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.