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