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 auditory representation in direct and indirect pathway neurons of the posterior dorsal striatum in the context of reward-driven behavior.

Tufts School of Medicine

Worked under Dr. Peter Juo to conduct a focused genetic screen to identify the neuropeptide that mediates a feedback pathway that couples muscle activity with the trafficking of the glutamate receptor GLR-1 in the distal, upstream neuron AVA.

Currently working under Dr. Michael Halassa, conducting sleep assay experiments to understand the underlying thalamocortical circuitry that guides decision making during awake and REM/non-REM sleep states.