Yasmeen Zoubi, MS
Evaluating and interpreting complex neuroscience data with scientific rigor.
Focused on neuron morphology, neural data, and scientific AI evaluation
Neuroscience Data & Figures
Sholl Analysis of a CA1 Pyramidal Neuron
A Sholl Analysis performed on a CA1 pyramidal neuron reconstruction obtained from NeuroMorpho.Org (NMO_166409). Peak intersections are observed near the soma and in the axonal apical tuft. Illustrated via Fiji/SNT.
Neuronal Raster Plot
Simulated spike times from six neurons, each showing a brief burst of high-frequency firing at a different time. Illustrated via Veusz.
Strahler Analysis of a Retinal Amacrine Neuron
A Strahler Analysis performed on a retinal amacrine neuron reconstruction obtained from NeuroMorpho.Org (NMO_183775). The branch are color-coded by order and reach a maximum Strahler order of 5. Illustrated via Fiji/SNT.
Basal Ganglia Circuitry Diagram
Diagram of the basal ganglia circuitry illustrating direct and indirect pathways in motor movement, modulated via substantia nigra pars compacta dopamine. Illustrated via Cytoscape.
Research Contributions
Master’s Thesis: “Facilitating NeuroMorpho.Org Curation via Neuronal and Glial Metadata Analysis", George Mason University, 2021
Graduate research on neuronal and glial metadata analysis to support curation and interpretation withiin the NeuroMorpho.Org database.
Coauthored Publication: "Assisted neuroscience knowledge extraction via machine learning applied to neural reconstruction metadata on NeuroMorpho.Org", Springer Open, 2022
Collaborative research on machine learning-assisted extraction of neuroscience metadata from NeuroMorpho.Org to improve biological knowledge organization.
About
I’m a biologist with an M.S. in Biology (neuroscience concentration) and four years of professional laboratory experience in virology and microbiology. My work focuses on evaluating and interpreting complex scientific data, catching errors, and determining whether conclusions are supported by the evidence.
I design and evaluate neuroscience reasoning problems for AI models, and I’ve assessed AI-generated scientific content for accuracy, reasoning, and data interpretation. During my graduate research, I reviewed and corrected named-entity annotations across about 10,000 sentences from neuroscience publications and co-authored the resulting peer-reviewed paper. I also performed neuron reconstructions in Neurolucida for NeuroMorpho.Org.
Tools: Neurolucida, Fiji/ImageJ (SNT), Veusz, Cytoscape.