Ashley Juavinett
Research
My research and writing focuses broadly on education and careers in the field of neuroscience, with a focus on best practices for introducing biology students to programming. Part of this work involves capitalizing on open access datasets as course-based undergraduate research experiences and developing scaffolds for such datasets that will enable students to ask their own questions of cutting edge data. I would like to understand the extent to which these approaches create realistic and engaging research experiences in the classroom, encourage students to persist in computational work, and ultimately retain a broad array of students in neuroscience.
Select Publications
- Zuckerman, A., Lo, S.M., Juavinett, A.L. Mentorship for Transfer Student Success in STEM Research: Mentor Approaches and Reflections. CBE Life Sciences 23(27): 1–17.
- Tan, T., Tomaszycki, M., Martinez Acosta, V., Juavinett, A.L. Centering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Graduate Admissions. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. 22(2):A137-A159.
- Zuckerman, A. & Juavinett, A.L. (2024). When Coding Meets Biology: The tension between access and authenticity in a contextualized coding class. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2024), March 20–23, 2024, Portland, OR, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages.
- Shah, S. & Juavinett, A.L. (2022). The Mismatch Between Neuroscience Graduate Training and Professional Skill Sets. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience. 21(1):A35-A46.
- Juavinett, A.L. (2020). So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist? Columbia University Press (New York, NY).
- Juavinett, A.L. (2020). Learning How to Code While Analyzing an Open Access Electrophysiology Dataset. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience 19(1):A94-A104.
- Juavinett, A.L., Bekheet, G., Churchland, A.K. (2019). Chronically-implanted Neuropixels probes enable high yield recordings in freely moving mice. eLife 8:e47188. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47188.
Biography
Ashley Juavinett earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from UC San Diego in 2016. Afterwards, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She returned to UC San Diego as teaching faculty in 2018.
