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I am a neuroscientist broadly interested in the neural bases of motivated behavior. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Howe Lab at Boston University, where I use fiber photometry to investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of striatum-wide signaling of the neuromodulators dopamine and acetylcholine.
I got my PhD in Neurobiology at Duke University in the Motivated Memory Lab and the Laboratory for Psychiatric Neuroengineering. My graduate research combined human fMRI and rodent in-vivo electrophysiology to investigate the neural signals underlying anticipation and its influences on learning and memory. In addition to the Department of Neurobiology, I was also a part of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, and Certificate for College Teaching program.
Prior to graduate school, I zig-zagged my way between studying rodent models, human cognitive neuroscience, and human structural brain abnormalities in the Arnsten Lab, with Donna Rose Addis while she was in the Schacter Lab, and in the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Lab.
I got my PhD in Neurobiology at Duke University in the Motivated Memory Lab and the Laboratory for Psychiatric Neuroengineering. My graduate research combined human fMRI and rodent in-vivo electrophysiology to investigate the neural signals underlying anticipation and its influences on learning and memory. In addition to the Department of Neurobiology, I was also a part of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, and Certificate for College Teaching program.
Prior to graduate school, I zig-zagged my way between studying rodent models, human cognitive neuroscience, and human structural brain abnormalities in the Arnsten Lab, with Donna Rose Addis while she was in the Schacter Lab, and in the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Lab.