Stacy Chu is a sophomore studying neuroscience at Columbia University. Since joining the Cognitive Neurophysiology Research Group as a student research assistant in January 2007, she has become interested in the use of advancing neuroimaging techniques in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy patients. Her primary research involves morphometric analyses using MRI with the goal of better understanding seizure-induced changes in brain structure. She is interested in applying morphometric techniques to study the relationship between those changes and the locations of seizure foci.

Stacy’s interest in scientific research was first piqued while she worked on a genetics project conducted at the Waksman Institute at Rutgers University in 2005. There she worked with gene analysis techniques to isolate and determine two mRNA sequences from the Artemia franciscana genome and published them in the National Center for Biotechnology Information database. Since then, she has been finding her learning endeavors as a student to be greatly steered by her research interests.

An avid violinist and artist, Stacy enjoys performing as a freelance ensemble musician and editing art for publication as the production manager for the Columbia Political Review. She also enjoys skiing, basketball, and dark chocolate.