Advisor: Ilia Karatsoreos
Research interests: I study metabolism at the organismal and cellular level, and specifically how it is affected by circadian rhythms and endocannabinoid signaling
Advisor: Gerald B. Downes
Research interests: The function, development, and evolution of neural circuits underlying cognition, Advisor: Gerald B. Downes
Agnes Lacreuse, Elena Vazey
Research interests: Aging, Alzheimer's disease. Interested in exploring the biological underpinnings of sex differences in the onset and neuropathological manifestation of Alzheimer's disease.
B.A. Psychology, minor in Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Advisor: David E. Moorman, Elena Vazey
Research interests: Decision making, specifically addiction models of decision making in rodents. My work so far has focused on targeted drug manipulations to theoretically based cortical subregions to understand the neurobiological and behavioral underpinnings of risky decision making.
B.S. Economics, Neurobiology, Economic Decision-Making, and Social Systems, UMass Amherst, May 2018
M.S. Neuroscience and Behavior, UMass Amherst, Sept. 2019
Advisor: Youngbin Kwak
Research interests: Neural mechanisms underpinning monetary choices and the role of risk and social pressure in economic decision-making