Cornell University

Worked under Dr. Nilay Yapici, characterizing the behavioral phenotypes of allatostatin-C receptor mutants in Drosophila melanogaster in order to understand the role these receptors play in facilitating diapausal behavior.

Worked under Dr. David Pizarro, developing a metanormativity scale aimed at discerning an individual’s alignment with moral objectivism or moral relativism.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

Worked under Dr. Manisha Balwani as a secondary coordinator on Alnylam’s Phase III Trial of Givosiran, a gene silencing therapy drug that utilizes small interfering RNA to treat acute hepatic porphyria.

NYU Langone/Columbia University

Worked under Dr. Tanya Sippy and Dr. Rui Costa, assessing the mechanisms underlying sensorimotor transformation in direct and indirect pathway neurons of the posterior dorsal striatum in the context of goal-directed behavior.

Tufts School of Medicine

Currently completing PhD under advisor Dr. Michael Halassa.

Assessing cognitive deficits in schizophrenia through behavior paradigms that recruit the MD-dlPFC pathway with the broader goal of developing clinically relevant biomarkers for executive dysfunction in schizophrenia.