May Mansy

May received her B.Sc. with honors in 2009 from the Systems and Biomedical Engineering department in Cairo University. She then worked for two years in the healthcare industry as a software developer at Nebras Technology in Cairo, Egypt. In Spring 2013, she started pursuing her PhD degree in Neural Engineering in the Oweiss lab at Michigan State University. She has been involved in somatosensory integration experiments in the rodents’ whisker system, neural control using optogenetic tools and optical-tetrode assembly. She also gained a lot of experience in the surgical procedure of cranial injections, implantation of recording electrodes and guide cannulas as well behavioral animal training.

In Summer 2014, May moved with the Oweiss lab to the University of Florida, and then transferred to the Biomedical Engineering department in Summer 2015. Her active research topic is to characterize the role of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the premotor area (M2) during goal directed behavior in a delayed reaction time experiment. In the Oweiss Lab, May is currently conducting behavioral training for rodents as well as surgeries to implant neural recording/imaging devices that would potentially give more insight into the nature of the underlying neural ensembles in PFC and M2.