Annie G. Bryant

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Hi! I’m Annie, a third-year PhD Candidate working with Dr Ben Fulcher in the Dynamics and Neural Systems Lab at The University of Sydney.

For my thesis research, I’m interested in the nuanced changes to neural dynamics that characterize a given disorder, with a particular focus on Alzheimer’s disease. I integrate multimodal neuroimaging data with highly comparative time-series analysis to better understand how Alzheimer’s disease pathology disrupts functional neural architecture, from individual cells to distributed networks of brain regions.

Before moving to Sydney, I lived in Boston while studying at Northeastern University and researching the relationship between tau pathology and vascular function under the supervision of Dr. Rachel Bennett at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease.

To read more about my current and past research projects, check out my Projects page.

Outside of the lab, you can find me biking, hiking, hammocking, embroidering, roller skating, or FaceTiming with Mojo, my cat back home.

selected publications

  1. Unifying pairwise interactions in complex dynamics
    Oliver M Cliff, Annie G Bryant, Joseph T Lizier, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, and Ben D Fulcher
    Nature Computational Science, 2023
  2. Endothelial cells are heterogeneous in different brain regions and are dramatically altered in Alzheimer’s disease
    Annie Bryant, Zhaozhi Li, Rojashree Jayakumar, Alberto Serrano-Pozo, Benjamin Woost, Miwei Hu, Maya E Woodbury, Astrid Wachter, Gen Lin, Taekyung Kwon, Robert V Talanian, Knut Biber, Eric H Karran, Bradley T Hyman, Sudeshna Das, and Rachel Bennett
    Journal of Neuroscience, 2023
  3. Heterogeneity of tau deposition and microvascular involvement in MCI and AD
    Annie G Bryant, Mary K Manhard, David H Salat, Bruce R Rosen, Bradley T Hyman, Keith A Johnson, Susie Huang, Rachel E Bennett, and Yi-Fen Yen
    Current Alzheimer Research, 2021
  4. Cerebrovascular senescence is associated with tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease
    Annie G Bryant, Miwei Hu, Becky C Carlyle, Steven E Arnold, Matthew P Frosch, Sudeshna Das, Bradley T Hyman, and Rachel E Bennett
    Frontiers in Neurology, 2020
  5. Extracting interpretable signatures of whole-brain dynamics through systematic comparison
    Annie G Bryant, Kevin Aquino, Linden Parkes, Alex Fornito, and Ben D Fulcher
    bioRxiv, 2024
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    Molecular profiling of frontal and occipital subcortical white matter hyperintensities in Alzheimer’s disease
    Annie G Bryant*, Sulochan Malla*, Andrew Li, Benjamin Woost, Nina Wolf, Rojashree Jayakumar, Sudeshna Das, Susanne Veluw, and Rachel Bennett
    bioRxiv, 2024
    *Co-first authors.