Sean M. Montgomery
Personal Information
		Lab
		Buzsaki Lab		Phone:  973.353.1080 x3130
		Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience		Fax:  973.353.1820
		Rutgers University		email:
		197 University Avenue
		Newark, NJ 07102
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		103 Mercer St. #3		Phone:  201.536.1435
		Jersey City, NJ 07302

Rutgers University: PhD, Neuroscience

9/01 to Present

Reed College: BA, Psychology

9/95 to 5/99

Reinvest in Rutgers Academic Scholarship

9/01 to 9/03

The Neurosciences Graduate Student of the Year Award

2002

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention

2001

NDSEG Graduate Research Fellowship Finalist

2001

Reed College President's Commendation for Academic Excellence

1999

Center for Neuroscience at University of Pittsburgh Fellowship

1998

S.M. Montgomery, M.E. Calhoun, B.R. Fletcher, P.R. Rapp. Arc mRNA expression is induced at similar levels by performance of a well-learned task and exploration of a novel environment. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, November, 2003.

D.L. Buhl, A. Morozov, S.M. Montgomery, K. Harris, E. Kandel, G. Buzsaki. Network patterns in the hippocampus of the HCN1 KO mouse. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, November, 2002.

Rhodes, D. L. & Montgomery, S. Attention-centered spatial asymmetries. Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting, April, 2000.

Rhodes, D. L. & Montgomery, S. Attention-centered reference frames. CSAIL (Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning), Hood River, OR, July 1999.

		Research Assistant	6/99 to 7/01
		Advisor: Dr. Howard Eichenbaum My work included:  behavioral testing and electrophysiology with rats and transgenic and knockout mice, software programming, electrode building, electronic circuit assembly, testing apparatus assembly, computer maintenance and upkeep, software and hardware purchasing, and web authoring.
		The Effect of Low Dose Fetal Alcohol Exposure on Performance of a Hippocampal Dependent Task	3/99 to 5/99
		Advisor: Dr. Shelly Dickinson C57BL/6 mice were exposed to a chronic low dose of alcohol in utero.  After reaching adulthood, the mice were compared to their littermate controls in performance of an odor paired-associates task (developed by Bunsey & Eichenbaum 1996).
		BA Senior Thesis Project	9/98 to 5/99
		Advisor: Dr. Dell Rhodes A set of experiments run on normal human participants investigating how the origin of a particular environment-based spatial reference frame is determined.  As a part of the project I set up and operated an ISCAN eye-tracking system.
		Recording from the Green Crab STG (Bio 381)	11/98 to 12/98
		Advisor: Dr. S. Arch I located and extracted the Carcinus maenus stomatogastric ganglion with adjoining nerve fibers.  I subsequently recorded the firing patterns from various extending nerve fibers in the presence of different concentrations of applied neurotransmitter.
		Center for Neuroscience at University of Pittsburgh Internship	6/98 to 8/98
		Advisor: Dr. Carl Olson I assisted in performing single unit recordings on awake Rhesus macaque monkeys. I was involved in one project recording from dorsolateral prefrontal cortex examining motivation and another project recording from inferotemporal cortex examining aspects of visual perception. I also wrote a C-based program to run human participants in a parallel visual perception experiment.
		Investigation of Superstition in Rats (Psy 373)	4/98 to 5/98
		Advisor: Allen Neuringer Rats were trained to lever press for food and key press for sugar water and were subsequently extinguished. Then, the rats randomly received either a food pellet or access to sugar water on an FI30" schedule and were observed for persistent repetitious behavior.

		Animal Work
		Rat and mouse injections, Stereotaxic Surgery, Rat brain mounting, Slicing, and Staining, In Situ Hybridization, In Vivo Electrophysiology.
		Computer Software
		Macintosh platform, Windows platform, Matlab, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe PageMaker, Canvas, StatView, Norton Utilities, Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.
		Computer Programming
		Java, C++