I joined the Neural Circuits and Memory Lab as a neuroscience graduate student in the fall of 2023. I graduated with a B.S. in Neuroscience and Psychology from the University of Washington. As an undergraduate student, I worked with Dr. Jeansok Kim to study the functional relationship between the dorsal periaqueductal gray and amygdala during fear-conditioning behaviors. Additionally, I worked with Dr. Susan Ferguson to study how different cell types in the anterior cingulate cortex contributed to addictive behaviors. Before becoming a graduate student, I worked as a radiology and surgery technician at an orthopedic surgery institution. Additionally, I worked as a research technician in the lab of Dr. Elizabeth Buffalo to study the activity of hippocampal place cells in nonhuman primates during memory formation and retrieval.
At the University of Michigan, I am studying how cell assemblies in the hippocampus organize their activity to support memory consolidation. I utilize a combination of optogenetics and extracellular electrophysiology to understand how the innate circuit differences in the subregions of the hippocampus differentiate their computations to support this phenomenon.
I also like climbing and skiing
