Emily Joyce

Emily is a PhD student in the Dynamical Neuroscience (DYNS) program at UC Santa Barbara in Dr. Michael Beyeler's lab. She previously worked with EM connectomics datasets at Janelia and at the Allen Institute, where she conducted research in cell typing and neural circuitry in sensory areas. During this time, she also developed open-source tools to analyze neuronal morphology and connectivity.

Emily is an inaugural UC Noyce Graduate Student Fellow, one of five graduate students selected across the UC system. Her research focuses on understanding information processing in retinal bipolar cells to improve prostheses that stimulate these cells directly. She uses cell- and circuit-level computational modeling to study how retinal stimulation may give rise to richer visual percepts, including color.

In her free time, she enjoys gardening, training her dogs and learning how to surf.