Ecaterina Savenco
Graduate StudentMaster’s Thesis in Neuroscience (Harvard Medical School)
B.Sc. in Natural Sciences (University of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova)
Research interest:
A recurring question in my work is how the nervous system enables functions essential for an organism’s survival and interaction with its environment, from molecular mechanisms to circuit-level behavior. Over the years, I have worked on different aspects of the nervous system in health and disease, including research with Parkinson’s disease patients, rodent models of neuromuscular disorders, and studies of dopamine signaling and memory. My background spans molecular, systems, and translational neuroscience, and I have contributed to the development and validation of several neurotechnological methods. In my PhD, I focus more specifically on how the structure of neural circuits in the zebrafish nervous system constrains, enables, and supports computation and behavior.
Publications:
- Bart Lodder, Tarun Kamath, Ecaterina Savenco, Berend Röring, Michelle Siegel, Julie A Chouinard, Suk Joon Lee, Caroline Zagoren, Paul Rosen, Isa Hartman, Joshua Timmins, Roger Adan, Lin Tian, Bernardo L Sabatini. “Absolute measurement of fast and slow neuronal signals with fluorescence lifetime photometry at high temporal resolution.” Neuron vol. 113,21 (2025): 3554-3566.e7. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2025.08.013
- Helena Cockx, Robert Oostenveld, Merel Tabor, Ecaterina Savenco, Arne van Setten, Ian Cameron, Richard van Wezel. “fNIRS is sensitive to leg activity in the primary motor cortex after systemic artifact correction.” NeuroImage vol. 269 (2023): 119880. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119880