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Kristina Nielsen is an Associate Professor in the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on the neural circuits underlying object recognition, with a particular interest in how visual information is transformed across different processing stages in the visual cortex. She studies the early stages of the visual system, such as the retina, where visual stimuli are represented similarly to pixels in a digital format. This initial representation is often inefficient, necessitating additional processing to create a more abstract and useful form of visual information for supporting complex functions of the visual system. Nielsen is particularly interested in how these transformations enable robust object recognition, despite changes in conditions like position or color. Her lab employs various techniques, including two-photon calcium imaging, extracellular recordings, psychophysics, and immunohistochemistry, to investigate the structure and function of circuits in higher-level visual areas and the plasticity of these circuits in the adult brain.
Johns Hopkins University • Baltimore, MD
Teaching and conducting research in the field of neuroscience, with a focus on neural circuits and visual information processing.
Department of Pathology - PhD in Pathobiology. GRE is not required.