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Melek Firat Altay
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioMelek Firat Altay earned her PhD in Neuroscience from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she studied alpha-synuclein heterogeneity in the context of Parkinson’s disease and other synucleinopathies. In 2024, she joined the Andreasson Lab as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow to explore how immune responses influence Alzheimer's disease pathology and progression. An enthusiast of science communication, she acts as the City Coordinator for the Pint of Science Festival at Stanford/Palo Alto. A trained musician, she also hosts podcasts for the New Books Network, featuring newly published works in biology, neuroscience, biotechnology, and music history and aesthetics.
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Chuyi Cui, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioDr. Chuyi Cui is a postdoctoral scholar in the Human Motor Control and Neuromodulation Lab at Stanford University School of Medicine. She earned her Ph.D. in Biomechanics and Motor Control, with a minor in Gerontology, from Purdue University. Her doctoral research focused on understanding gait control and stability in healthy aging, through comprehensive investigations of the kinematics and kinetics of adaptive locomotion in young and older adults. At Stanford, her postdoctoral research expanded to clinical populations, aiming to uncover the mechanisms underlying gait dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases. Under the guidance of Dr. Helen Bronte-Stewart, she contributes to clinical trials on closed-loop deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's Disease, utilizing advanced neuromodulation technology to develop and evaluate DBS therapies that adapt in real time to patients' motor fluctuations and alleviate gait symptoms.
