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I graduated from Indiana University in 2000 with a B.S. in Cognitive Science. Following my 4 year mid-west excursion, I returned to Boston where I began work for Bruce Cohen M.D., Ph.D., at McLean Hospital in Belmont. There I spent two years studying how well peripherally administered choline penetrates the blood-brain barrier in young and old rats. I was also involved in mapping the regions of neuronal activity following antipsychotic drug administration using immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization staining of c-fos protein and mRNA (a common marker for cellular activity). I began my graduate training in neuroscience in 2002 at Brandeis University. Following a year of laboratory rotations I began my thesis research in the Katz lab. Here, I am studying the learning paradigm, 'conditioned taste aversion' (CTA), while recording spike activity from isolated neurons in the amygdala and gustatory center of the cortex in rats, using chronically implanted microwire electrodes.
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 Brandeis University |
 Brandeis University Dept. of Psychology |
 Volen Center for Complex Systems |
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