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. My research goal is to contribute to our understanding of human health through my love of neuroscience and cellular biology.