2024
2022
Research Interests: I research a sensorimotor gating circuit using electrophysiological field recordings and Immunohistochemistry
Advisor: Karine Fénelon
Research Interests: How endogenous and exogenous psychoactive chemicals modulate the nervous system on molecular and behavior levels
Advisor: Elena Vazey
2021
Advisor: Joe Bergan
Research Interests: Interested in uncovering the neural circuits underlying social behavior in animal models. Currently using fiber photometry and advanced genetic techniques to uncover the social behavior network.
2020
2019
Research Interests: Investigating neural circuits underlying social behavior using mouse models
Advisor: Joseph Bergan
M.S., Biology with specialization in Human and Animal Physiology and Endocrinology, Saint
Petersburg State University, Russia 2007
Advisor: Josef G. Trapani
Trapani Lab
Research Interests: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Investigations of Sensorimotor System Development
Research Interests: Aging and sex differences in reversal learning and cognition
Research Interests: Neurobiological and cognitive mechanisms involved in delay discounting and effects of uncertainty on economic decision-making
2018
Research Interests: Probiotics and the Brain Gut Pathway. Reproduction. Animal Welfare.
Advisor: Melinda Novak
2017
Dissertation Title: "An adult zebrafish brain atlas to investigate SHH mediated cell-cell signaling in adult neurogenic zones"
2016
Dissertation Title: "Probiotics as a treatment for increased nighttime activity in rhesus macaques (macaca mulatta) displaying self-injurious behavior"
2015
Research Interests: Primate cognition and behavior
Advisor: Melinda Novak
Dissertation Title: "Associations between anxiety and attention in laboratory-housed Rhesus Macaques (macaca mulatta)"
Research Interests: Pharmacology and mechanism of action of the sigma receptor
Dissertation Title: Investigating effects of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin on the dopaminergic SH-SY5Y cell line
Research Interests: Animal Behavior, specifically primate stress and anxiety as well as canine cognition
Advisor: Melinda Novak
2014
Research Interests: The Effects of Disrupted Posture on Bi-Manual Coordination.
Advisor: Richard van Emmerik
Dissertation Title: Postural instabilities and the maintenance of bi-manual rhythmic movements
Research Interests: Primate Behavior and Cognition
Advisor: Melinda Novak
Dissertation Title: Behavioral effects of construction activity on...
B.S. Biology, University of Maine Orono (May 2010)
Research Interests: Modeling and assessing chronic stress in rodents
Dissertation Title: Increased body weight in adulthood following a peripubertal stressor and proposed mechanism for effects of increased adiposity on estrogen-dependent behaviors
Research Interests: The enduring effects of stress during puberty on female mice
Dissertation Title: The role of ER-Alpha and the ovaries in the enduring altered behavioral response to pubertal immune stress
2012
Research Interests: Motor Control and Coordination, Motor Speech Disorder Apraxia
Advisor: Richard van Emmerik
Dissertation Title: Motor Control and Coordination, Motor Speech Disorder Apraxia
Position: Owner of YoYoExpert; Co-owner of YoYoNews
Research Interests: Neurobiological and Behavioral Effects of Alcohol Addiction
Advisor: Heather N. Richardson
Position: Senior Associate, Scientific Communications; Eli Lilly and Company
M.S. Biology, San Francisco State University, May 2009
2011
Research Interests: Axon/Glial Interactions in Axon Guidance
Advisor: Rolf O. Karlstrom, Michael J.F. Barresi
2010
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: Regulation of Trio Splice Variants by 17beta-Estradiol and 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-P-Dioxin
Position: First year medical student (class of 2015) University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2010
Research Interests: The Influence of Peripubertal Stress on Altered Adult Response to Estradiol
Position: Medical Student, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
2009
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Advisor: Melinda Novak
Dissertation Title: Sexually Differentiated Object Preference in Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta)
Position: Physician Assistant in Urgent Care
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: MDMA and Methamphetamine: An Investigation of a Neurochemical and Behavioral Cross-Tolerance in the Rat
Position: Research Associate, R&D, Seaside Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: Event=Related Potential Indices of Attentional Gradients Across the Visual Field
Position: First year medical student, UMass Medical School.
2007
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: The Time-Course of Developmental Cell Death in the Spinal Nucleus of the Bulbocavernosus of Mice
Position: Intern, Planned Parenthood International, Santiago, Chile
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: Female Sexual Receptivity: The Effect of Stress at Puberty on Sexual Receptivity in Female Mice
Position: Pharmacovigilance Associate, Genzyme, Cambridge, Mass.
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: Seeing and Knowing Ability of Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta)
Position: Research Technician II, Division of Neuroscience, Laboratory of Behavioral Biology at Harvard Medical School's New England Regional Primate Research Center, Southborough, Massachusetts
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: What Mediates the Interaction Between Semaphorin and Rac at the Developing Synapse?
Position: Surgery residency program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Montefiore, Bronx, New York.
2006
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Colorado State University, September 2009
Dissertation Title: Melanopsin-Immunoreactive Retinal Ganglion Cells in the Mongolian Gerbil Retina
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Endocrinology
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: The Role of Ghrelin in Estrous Behavior Interactions with Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone
Position: Clinical Development Associate, US Exploratory Implementation, Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: Neurochemical Identity of c-Fos Expressing Neurons in the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus
Position: Instructor & Laboratory Manager Science Department, Sierra Nevada College
2003
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: Role of Cell Death in Respect to Sexual Differentiation of the Vasopressin Neurotransmitter System
Position: Medical student at SABA University of Medicine
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: The Role of Corticotropin Releasing Factor Receptors in the Suppression of Estrous Behavior
Position: Second year primary care/family practice resident, Worcester Program for Family Medicine and Community Health
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: A Systematic Exploration of Tool Use in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)
2002
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: Do the Vasopressin Cells of the Mouse Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis and Medial Amygdala Contain Androgen and Progesterone Receptors: An Immunocytochemical Study
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: The Effect of Endogenous Neurotrophic Factors on the Development of the Rat Perineal Muscles
Position: Medical Student, University of Massachusetts Medical School
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Flashing Light on c-Fos Expression in the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus of the Mongolian Gerbil
Position: Baystate Surgical Residency Program, Baystate Medical Center
2001
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: Characterization of Perineal Muscles and Motoneurons in the Nakes Mole-Rat (Heterocephalus Glaber)
Position: Consultant, Global Enrollment Optimization, Clinical Development Organization, Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: Effects of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin on Estradiol Induction of Progesterone Receptor Gene Expression in the Hypothalamus and Preoptic Area of the Rat Brain
Position: Cell Biology Department (Lab of Gary Stein), UMass Medical School, Worcester
1999
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation Title: Sensory Axon Growth During Drosophila Metamorphosis
Position: Adjunct Professor of Biology, Southern Connecticut State University and Manchester Community College
Research Interests: Circuitry behind maternal behavior in mother rats in an effort to identify subregions of and evaluate recruitment of offspringresponsive populations of the medial preoptic area that project to the infralimbic cortex and the ventral tegmental area during maternal caregiving behavior.
Advisor: Mariana Pereira
Research Interests: I am interested in deepening our understanding of decision making in the nudibranch sea slug Berghia stephanieae through the use of chemical cues and the animal's olfactory system and a new rapid behavioral assay
Advisor: Paul S. Katz
Research Interests: Understanding the olfactory navigation of Berghia stephanieae when their olfactory organs are severed and allowed to regenerate.
Advisor: Paul S. Katz