Biography I am a doctoral student in the Neuroscience Training Program at UW-Madison. I received my B.S. in neuroscience and sociology from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 2018. My primary area of research in the Cahill lab focuses on understanding the cellular signaling pathways that underly dendritic spine structural plasticity in cognition. I am also interested in neuro-psychiatic disorders and understanding …
Biography I’m a Ph.D student and ICTR/NIH TL1 Predoctoral Fellow in the Cahill Lab, studying the underlying mechanisms of debilitating neuropsychiatric conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). My ultimate goal is to study & develop novel therapeutic targets for OCD with a particular interest in the mechanisms of action driving psychedelic & psychoplastogenic compounds. Above …
Biography I graduated with a B.S. in Psychology and B.A. in French from Aquinas College in 2014. Prior to joining the Cahill Lab, I received my Master of Biology at Northern Michigan University in 2017. During my time at Northern, I successfully characterized the anatomical expression of a novel neuropeptide, TMEM35, in the hamster brain, …