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My research focuses on the intersection between neuroscience and behavior across species and age
My research focuses on the intersection between neuroscience and behavior across species and age
About
About
I am a scientist and educator with primary research interests in the overlapping areas of animal cognition, behavior, and neuroscience.
Currently I am a Research Scientist at the Durham VA Medical Center to continue my research as a Career Development Awardee or CDA2 investigating noninvasive audiovisual neurostimulation as as a potential treatment for neuropathology in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. My lab was relocated July 1st, 2025 from Atlanta, GA.
Previously, my lab was at the Atlanta VA Medical Center in the Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation. I currently have collaborations with Dr. Machelle Pardue, Director of the Emory Eye Center.
I am affiliated with collaborator and post-doc mentor Dr. Annabelle Singer in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
My current and future research examines conserved neural mechanisms altered by neurodegenerative disease to influence learning and memory across species and age.
Education
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in the lab of Dr. Annabelle Singer.
Emory Goizueta Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Research Education Component Trainee 2022-2024
Ph.D. in Psychology at Emory University in the Neuroscience and Animal Behavior program. In the lab of Dr. Gregory Berns, I investigated perceptual and reward processes in dogs through awake, unrestrained functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).
Masters degree in Psychology at University of North Carolina Wilmington under Dr. Kate Bruce and Dr. Mark Galizio investigating odor concepts and behavioral pharmacology of the odor span task in rodents.
Bachelors degree in Psychology at Christopher Newport University working in the labs of Dr. Andrew Velkey and Dr. Jason Hart.
Georgia Certified Beekeeper
Georgia Certified Beekeeper
AKA - fascinating eusocial species that also produce honey
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