PhD. Student, Neuroscience

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts, USA

Current - 2021

Graduate Teaching Certificate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts, USA

Current - 2022

• Research-based strategies for lesson, subject, and program design and development

MSc., Neuroscience

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Massachusetts, USA

2018 - 2016

Biology Degree

University of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, ARG

2015 - 2010

Graduate Research Assistant

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts, USA

Current - 2022

• Designed and built behavioral setup for synchronized behavior and physiology recordings
• Designed experiments and collected terabyte datasets to study hunger and sleep in mice

Technical Associate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts, USA

2021 - 2018

• Provided technical support for lab procedures (surgeries, wet lab, colony management)
• Designed continuous home cage monitoring system for movement, temperature, and food intake

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Massachusetts, USA

2018 - 2016

• Designed experiments and collected data to study maternal behavior in rats

Undergraduate Researcher

University of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, ARG

2015 - 2013

• Tested a novel device to measure escape responses in crabs
• Designed experiments and collected data to study learning and memory mechanisms

Teaching Assistant: Statistics for Brain and Computer Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts, USA

2022

• Taught statistics recitation lectures.

Teaching Assistant: Methods of Inquiry in Psychology

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Massachusetts, USA

2018

• Taught statistics recitation lectures for 20 students.

Instructor of Record: Animal Behavior

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Massachusetts, USA

2017

• Selected topics in animal behavior and designed curriculum.
• Taught weekly seminars in animal behavior for 40 students
• CITRL associate

Two spaced training trials induce associative ERK-dependent long term memory in Neohelice granulata.

Behavioral Brain Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113132

N/A

2021

• Ojea Ramos S., Andina M., Romano A., Feld, M

Interleukin-17a restores sociability in several mouse models for neurodevelopmental disorders.

Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1843-6

N/A

2020

• Reed M.D., Yim Y.S., (…), Andina M., (…), Huh J.R., Choi G.B.

Complete publication list at Google Scholar.

Building a user-driven database of open neuroscience projects

Organisation for Human Brain Mapping

N/A

2021

• bit.ly/OHBM-21-MLA

Data Visualization

Harvard Philantrophy Advisory Fellowship

Massachusetts, USA

2019

• bit.ly/PAF-2019-MLA

Interleukin-17a restores sociability in several mouse models for neurodevelopmental disorders.

Society For Neuroscience

N/A

2019

• Reed M.D., Yim Y.S., (…), Andina M., (…), Huh J.R., Choi G.B

Long-term memory induced by two training trials in the crab Neohelice granulata

Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

N/A

2018

• Ojea Ramos S., Andina M., Feld M

Two-trial long-term memory in the crab Neohelice granulata

Argentinean Society of Neuroscience Research

N/A

2015

• Andina M., Romano A., Feld M

Measuring crab ́s memory: improving conditioning

Argentinean Society of Neuroscience Research

N/A

2013

• Andina M., (…), Romano A., Feld M.

Picower Neurological Disorder Research Fund

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

N/A

2024 - 2022

• Secured $75,000 to lead a collaborative research effort

Arete Fellowship

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

N/A

2021

• Participated on weekly seminars in Effective Altruism discussion panel

IBRO-LARC

Talleres Open Source

N/A

2021

• Secured $5,000 to organize open-hardware workshop in Latin America. https://tallerneurolatam.netlify.app/

Presidential Fellowship

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

N/A

2021

• Secured $43,000 to fund my PhD research

College of Natural Sciences Fellowship

University of Massachusetts Amherst

N/A

2017

• Awarded fellowship to design and teach a first year seminar class

Neuroscience and Behavior Program Fellowship

University of Massachusetts Amherst

N/A

2016

• Secured $27,000 to fund my MSc research

Young ISN Neurochemistry

University of Buenos Aires

N/A

2015

• Secured travel funding to present my Undergraduate Research at a conference

Penelope Herrero

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

N/A

2022 - 2021

• Open Hardware design and fabrication

John Eastman

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

N/A

2021

• FedWatcher. Open Software & Hardware design and fabrication

Idil Tuncali

University of Massachusetts Amherst

N/A

2018 - 2017

• Statistics, R programming, and Analysis of Ultrasonic Vocalizations

Nneka Southwell

University of Massachusetts Amherst

N/A

2017

• Basic laboratory techniques in rodents

Team member

Open Neuroscience

N/A

Current - 2020

• Repository of open-source neuroscience tools
• https://open-neuroscience.com/

Co-founder and team member

Talleres Open Source

N/A

2021 - 2020

• Organization of workshops for Open Source tools in Neuroscience.
• https://talleresos.netlify.app/

NSB Seminar Committee

University of Massachusetts Amherst

N/A

2018 - 2016

• Organization of invited Faculty weekly talks

NSB Mentoring Committee.

University of Massachusetts Amherst

N/A

2018 - 2017

• Organization of first year graduate student activities and mentoring events

FedWatcher: an open-source python software for real-time serial communication with FED3 devices.

https://github.com/matiasandina/FEDWatcher

N/A

N/A

FLOW: an open-source home cage monitoring system of temperature and movement in rodents.

https://github.com/matiasandina/homecage_quantification

N/A

N/A

nobrainr: an open-source simple interface to plot plates from the Mouse Allen Brain Atlas using R.

https://github.com/matiasandina/nobrainr

N/A

N/A

Complete List of Software at Github.

Queen’s Gambit

https://matiasandina.netlify.app/2021/02/queens-gambit/

N/A

2020

Birthday Meritocracy

https://matiasandina.netlify.app/2019/05/birthday-meritocracy/

N/A

2019