Author: Anne Yilmaz

Presenting: CARTA Student Symposium

CARTA, UC San Diego

Every year, the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) hosts a student symposium. It’s a chance for students, faculty, outside researchers, and funders to get a glimpse into the research and interests of students within the anthropogeny Ph.D specialization track. Since I am a recent member of CARTA, my talk served as my introduction to others within the organization.

If you’d like to view my five-minute talk called “Basic Memory Science: Recognition and Long-term Memory” or the talks of my colleagues, you can do so here. (This link will eventually become private by the organization. Please contact me if you do not have access and would like to view the talk.)

CARTA: Impact of Infectious Disease on Humans & Our Origins

CARTA, UC San Diego

 

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Due to COVID-19, CARTA’s symposium for spring quarter was cancelled and replaced with an online-only symposium on infectious disease. Though some people may have “pandemic burnout” and may not want to listen to talks about infectious agents, there is a fantastic group of speakers taking part in this virtual event tomorrow. If you’re interested in salmonella, COVID-19, Zika, etc., I recommend dropping by or viewing the recording on the event page. I’ll be attending!

Link to event page.

 

Working from Home in a Pandemic

Personal Blog, Resources, UC San Diego

Adding to the plethora of “here’s how I do it!” posts online, this is how I (attempt) to work from home during the COVID-19 lockdown. This post is not meant to instruct you on how to maximize productivity—personally, I think there are more important things to worry about right now—rather, it’s meant to validate the emotions of those feeling similarly and (hopefully) provide someone with a new coping strategy.

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CARTA: Exploring the Origins of Today’s Humans

CARTA, UC San Diego

 

 

This week, I’ll be attending the CARTA symposium on the Origin of Humans as an anthropogeny specialization track student. 

It will be my first CARTA symposium and I’m excited to see what kinds of discussions our speakers have with one another.

If you want to watch/attend, it is free and will be broadcast. I’d love to discuss topics with people afterward.

Link to event page.

 

 

Officially joined CARTA!

CARTA, Personal Blog, UC San Diego

Anthropogeny

I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)! I will be a part of this wonderful, interdisciplinary program as Ph.D anthropogeny specialization track student. CARTA is a one of a kind program that brings together researchers from the biological, biomedical, and social sciences, as well as scholars from the arts and humanities, with important technological input from the physical, chemical, and computing sciences. Together, researchers aim to understand humankind, how we got here and where we’re going.

Link to the CARTA webpage.

First-Year Project — Complete!

Psychology, UC San Diego, Wixted Lab

This year, I was the opener for our department’s year-end “Little APS” event. It went well!

I presented a new type of lineup procedure that some argued could be the new “future” lineup. Our analyses showed that it is *not* a superior lineup. However, we received great feedback from audience members about an alternate model we could fit to the data as well as alternative conditions worth running that may aid in confirming our initial findings.

Q&A with Emerald Alumni Sami Edge

Daily Emerald, University of Oregon

Former Emerald editor-in-chief Sami Edge participated in an alumni spotlight. In it, she talked about two memories that were formative during my time on the sports desk: the sexual assault allegations that came out against three men’s basketball players, and the multimedia “innovation” pieces such as my one on the University of Oregon hockey team. (She also gave me a little shout-out by name, which I’ll include after the substantive content because I think it’s cute!) 

Sami on the sexual assault case:

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Welcome

Personal Blog

 

 

 

 

My name is Anne Yilmaz and I’m a Ph.D candidate doing memory research in the Wixted Lab at University of California, San Diego.

This site is meant to chronicle personal and professional milestones as well as my current journey through graduate school. You can see my most recent posts below.

If you’re looking for something specific, there is a navigation menu at the bottom of this page. Click the “+” to view it. From there, you have the option of perusing content by category (e.g. Psychology, CARTA, Univ. of Oregon, etc.) or using the search bar to find a post. The site is not optimized for mobile, but I hope you find your way regardless.

I recommend viewing the site chronologically starting from the home page, but my favorite categories are “Resources,” “UC San Diego,” or “Stories & Features” for those wishing to dig a little deeper.

Thanks for visiting!

-A.Y.