ABOUT ME

My research career began as a summer student in Dr. David Ginty’s lab through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Exceptional Research Opportunities Program. After completing my BA in 2012, I joined the Ginty lab as a research assistant before applying to PhD programs. For graduate school, I joined the Program in Neuroscience (PiN) at Harvard University. In Dr. Susan Dymecki’s lab, I studied how serotonergic neurons give rise to behavior, specifically, how a specialized subset, the Drd2-Pet1 neurons, impact social behavior.

 

In early 2021, I stared my postdoctoral fellowship in Dr. Nicola Allen’s lab at the Salk Institute studying the role of astrocyte secreted factors in neurodevelopment and neurodevelopmental disorders. 

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