Curriculum vitae
Experience
Python programing including NumPy, PyTorch, TensorFlow, pandas, Matplotlib
Matlab programming
R programing
Signal processing, Image processing, Machine learning
2D and 3D graphics programming in OpenGL
Psychtoolbox programming for precise stimulus presentation and observer’s interface
Optical imaging (Wide-field Calcium Imaging, Voltage sensitive dyes, intrinsic signal optical imaging)
Analyzing imaging data, physiological and behavioral data
Teaching
2022 Lecture, Introduction to programming with python (course), HackerU College, Israel
2021 Lecture, Introduction to programming with python
(undergraduate class), Achva Academic College, Israel
2021 - 2022 Lecture, python programing (6-7 grade elementary school),
Alicecode program for young girls
2021 - 2023 Teaching assistant, From molecule to neuron
(undergraduate class), The Hebrew University, Israel
2020 - 2023 Teaching assistant, Introduction to cellular physiology
(undergraduate class), The Hebrew University, Israel
2019 Teaching assistant, advanced laboratory in neuro-biology
(undergraduate class), Bar-Ilan University, Israel
2019 Teaching Assistant, laboratory methods in life science
(undergraduate class), Bar-Ilan University, Israel
2016 - 2018 Teaching assistant, advanced laboratory in neurophysiology
(graduate class), Bar-Ilan University, Israel
2015 Teaching assistant, human research lab course
(undergraduate class), Bar-Ilan University, Israel
2015 Teaching Assistant, laboratory methods in life science
(undergraduate class), Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Education
2020 - 2023 PhD studies, Computational neuroscience
Medical Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Supervisor: Dr. Ariel Gilad
Thesis title: “Tactile perception mechanisms in the cortex of behavioral mice”
2015 – 2019 PhD studies, Computational neuroscience
Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Supervisor: Prof. Hamutal Slovin
Thesis title: “Neural Mechanisms of Depth Perception from motion parallax in the Visual Cortex
of Behaving Monkeys and perception in humans”
2011-2014 M.Sc, Computational Neuroscience
Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, cum laude
Thesis Title: "The Effects of Spatial Attention on Neuronal Population Activity in V1 of Behaving Monkeys"
Supervisor: Prof. Hamutal Slovin
2008-2011 B.Sc, Life Science
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Academia achivments
Academia presentations
- Ma’ayan Gadot, Ariel Gilad, Tactile perception mechanisms in the cortex of behaving mice, 5th IMRIC Retreat
(Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada) (Israel, 2022)
Academia posters
- Ma’ayan Gadot, Ariel Gilad, Tactile perception mechanisms in the cortex of behaving mice, ,iSFN annual meeting (Israel, 2022)
Best swift poster presentation and poster prize.
- David Levitan, Ma’ayan Gadot, Ariel Gilad, , iSFN annual meeting (Israel, 2022)
- Ma’ayan Gadot, Ariel Gilad, Tactile perception mechanisms in the cortex of behaving mice,
Medical Neurobiology Young Researchers Conference (Israel, 2021)
- Ma’ayan Gadot, Gregory C. DeAngelis Hamutal Slovin, Dynamic Perspective: effects on Humans’ Depth Perception
and on Neural Activity in monkey’s V1, Gouda annual retreat Young Researchers Conference (Israel, 2018)
- Ma’ayan Gadot, Itay Shamir, Hamutal Slovin, The effects of attentional field size on neuronal population responses in V1 of behaving monkeys,
"From Synapses to Circuits in Health and Disease" The 6th Inter-Academy Symposium (IAS) of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin, Germany, May 2018). Invited poster
- Ma’ayan Gadot, Itay Shamir, Hamutal Slovin, The effects of attentional field size on neuronal population responses in V1 of behaving monkeys,
iSFN annual meeting (Israel,2015).
Best swift poster presentation and poster prize.
- Ma’ayan Gadot, Itay Shamir, Hamutal Slovin, The effects of attentional field size on neuronal population responses in V1 of behaving monkeys,
SFN annual meeting (Chicago, USA, 2015)
Academic summer schools
- Deep learning course and project. Neuromatch academy (zoom international course, 2022)
- Cold spring harbor laboratory - Computational Neuroscience: Vision (New York, 2018)
Scholarships and awards
- Helmsley Scholarships to attend CSHL summer course (2018)
- President's scholarships to outstanding Ph.D. students on behalf of Bar-Ilan University, 2016-2020.