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General Information
| Full Name | Benjamin Gan-Or |
| Current Location | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Hometown | San Diego, California |
| Languages | English, Hebrew, German, Spanish, Russian |
| Citizenship | USA, Israel |
Education
- 2022
PhD
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
- Neural Networks and Information Processing
- 2010
BA
University of California, Berkeley
- Legal Studies
- Interactions between law and society
Research
- 2014 - 2022
PhD Student
Michael London, PhD, Hebrew University
- Inducing complex movements in the mouse motor cortex
- Cortical control in generating mouse ultrasonic courtship songs
- 2009-2011
Laboratory Manager / Researcher
Shaowen Bao, PhD, UC Berkeley
- Mechanisms of phantom perception and hearing loss-induced plasticity
- Functional deficits in the fragile x mental retardation mouse model
Relevant Skills
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App design in LabVIEW / MATLAB
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E-phys / behavior rig construction
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Complex data analysis in MATLAB
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Small animal surgical procedures
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Multi-unit / single-unit / juxtacellular / intracellular in vivo cortical e-phys (anesthetized and awake)