Dr. Laura Prolo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. After receiving her A.B. in Biology and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, she completed her MD and PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford University. She remained at Stanford for Neurosurgery residency, then completed a fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery at University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital.

The Dassama laboratory at Stanford performs research directed at understanding and mitigating bacterial multidrug resistance (MDR). Efforts to combat MDR involve two broad strategies: understanding how resistance is acquired in hopes of mitigating it, and identifying new compounds that could serve as potent antibiotics.

Dr. Laura Gwilliams is jointly appointed between Stanford Psychology, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Stanford Data Science. Her work is focused on understanding the neural representations and operations that give rise to speech comprehension in the human brain. To do so, she brings together insight from neuroscience, linguistics and machine learning, and takes advantage of recording techniques that operate at distinct spatial scales (MEG, ECoG and Neuropixels).

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Kabir Peay
Talk Title: Resource economics of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis vary with competitive context and nitrogen addition
Event: 2019 Ecological Society of America - Laura received an additional award for her abstract in the form of additional travel support from the Plant Population Ecology Section of the ESA.
Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: Mechanisms of generalist host range in the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis
Event: 3rd international Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting