Awards, Honors and Recognition

2022: Selection to John Hopkins University Early Career Colloquium
2022: Selection to Harvard University INCEPT
2022: Selection to New York University SPINES
2022: Selection to Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series
2022: Selection to Max Planck Florida Institute NeuroMEETS
2021: Selection to Brown University: Carney Institute for Brain Science’s BrainExPo Seminar
2021: SFN Trainee Professional Development Award
2021: BRI Scheibel Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow Award, University of California, Los Angeles
2018: Science Prize, ICLM
2017: Accepted to “Imaging the structure and function of the nervous system” course at CSHL
2017: Helmsley scholarship for “Imaging the structure and function of the nervous system” ($2400)
2014: Summer Research Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Psychology ($3200)
2014–2015: Distinguished Dissertator Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ($18,000)
2013–2014: Event grant for Association for graduate students in psychology (AGSIP) annual symposium
2013: Best presentation: Annual meeting of Association for graduate students in psychology (AGSIP)
2012: Sigma-Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Recipient ($1000)
2012–2013: Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ($17,000)
2010–2011: Chancellors Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ($5000)
2009–2010: Chancellors Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ($5000)
2008–2009: Chancellors Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ($5000)

PUBLICATIONS                                                                                                                                                                                             

Giovanniello, J.R.; Paredes, N.; Wiener, A.; Ramírez-Armenta, K.; Oragwam, C.; Uwadia ,H.O.; Lim, K.; Nnamdi, G.; Wang, A.; Sehgal, M.; Reis, MCV F.; Sias, A.; Silva, A.J.; Adhikari, A.; Malvaez, M.; Wassum.K. A dual-pathway architecture enables chronic stress to promote habit formation. bioRxiv 2023.10.03.560731; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.03.560731

Reis, MCV F., Maesta-Pereira, S., Olivier, M., Schuette, P.J., Sethi, E., Iniguez, E., Chakerian, M., Vaughn, E., Sehgal, M., Nguyen, D.C.T., Yuan, F., Torossian, A., Ikebara, J.M., Kihara, A.H., Dulac, C., Silva, A.J., Kao, J., Khakh, B, Adhikari A (2023). Control of feeding by a bottom-up midbrain-subthalamic pathway. (in revision). 

Sehgal, M., Filho, D.A., Martin, S., Mejia, I.D., Kastellakis, G., Kim, S., Lee, J., Pekcan, A., Huang, S., Lavi, A., Heo, W.D., Poirazi, P., Trachtenberg, J.T., Silva, A.J. (2022). Co-allocation to overlapping dendritic branches in the retrosplenial cortex integrates contextual memories across time. bioRxiv 2021.10.28.466343; DOI (in revision). 

Sehgal, M., Ehlers, V. E., & Moyer, J. R. (2023). Synaptic and intrinsic plasticity within overlapping lateral amygdala ensembles following fear conditioning. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 17, 1221176. DOI

Guo, C., Blair, G. J., Sehgal, M., Sangiuliano Jimka, F. N., Bellafard, A., Silva, A. J., Golshani, P., Basso, M. A., Blair, H. T., & Aharoni, D. (2023). Miniscope-LFOV: A large-field-of-view, single-cell-resolution, miniature microscope for wired and wire-free imaging of neural dynamics in freely behaving animals. Science Advances. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg3918.

Lavi, A., Sehgal, M., de Sousa, A.F., Ter-Mkrychyan, D., Sisan, F., Luchetti, A, Okabe, Bear, C, A., Silva, A.J. (2022) A retrograde mechanism coordinates memory allocation across brain regions. Neuron. DOI

Wang, W; Schuette, P.J.; La-Vu, M.Q.; Tobias, B.C.; Čeko, M; Kragel, P.A.; Reis, F.M.C.V.; Ji, S; Sehgal, M; Maesta-Pereira, S; Chakerian, M; Silva, A.J.; Canteras, N. S.; Wager, T.D.; Kao, J.C.; Adhikari, A. (2021) Dorsal premammillary projection to periaqueductal gray controls escape vigor from innate and conditioned threats. ELife. 

Yousuf, H., Ehlers, V.E., Sehgal, M., Song, C., & & Moyer, J. R., Jr. (2020) Modulation of intrinsic excitability as a function of learning within the fear conditioning circuit. Neurobiology of learning and memory. DOI 

Sehgal, M., Zhou, M., Lavi, A., Huang, S., Zhou,Y., & Silva, A.J. (2018). Memory allocation mechanisms underlie memory linking across time. Neurobiology of learning and memory. DOI 

Lisman, J., Cooper, K., Sehgal, M. & Silva, A.J. (2018). Memory formation depends on both synapse-specific modifications of synaptic strength and on cellularly-specific increases in excitability. Nature Neuroscience. DOI 

Sehgal, M., Zhou, M., Cai, D.J., Lavi, A., Huang, S., & Silva, A.J. (2017). 4.32 - Allocating, Tagging, and Linking Memories, In Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference (Second Edition), edited by John H. Byrne, Academic Press, Oxford, 2017, Pages 621-636, ISBN 9780128052914. 

Zhou, M., Greenhill, S., Huang, S.,Silva, T.K., Sano, Y., Wu, S., Cai, Y.,Nagaoka, Y., Sehgal, M.,Cai, D.J., Lee, Y., Fox, K., & Silva, A.J. (2016). CCR5 is a suppressor for cortical plasticity, and hippocampal learning and memory. eLife.  DOI 

Sehgal, M., Ehlers, V.E. & Moyer, J. R., Jr. (2014). Learning enhances intrinsic excitability in a subset of lateral amygdala neurons. Learning and Memory. DOI 

Sehgal, M., Song, C., Ehlers, V.E. & Moyer, J. R., Jr. (2013). Learning to learn – intrinsic plasticity as a metaplasticity mechanism for memory formation. Neurobiology of learning and memory. DOI

Song, C., Detert, J. A., Sehgal, M., and Moyer, J. R., Jr. (2012). Trace fear conditioning enhances synaptic and intrinsic plasticity in rat hippocampus. Journal of Neurophysiology. DOI