Neuroscientist and coder, with a broad range of experience
I’m currently working in a 1-year position as Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Dr. Ashish Raj at UCSF. My main current project focuses on developing techniques to deconvolve ISH data using scRNAseq cell type profiles to map cell types across mouse and human brains. Prior to my current appointment, I worked on and completed my PhD (Neuroscience in 2020) in Dr. Ashish Raj’s lab at Weill Cornell. My dissertation work involved using whole-brain mouse connectomes and spatial gene expression maps to create simple models of network spread explaining tau and synuclein pathology progression in mouse models of disease. Before pursuing my PhD, I completed my undergraduate work at Williams College in 2012, double majoring in Political Science and Psychology, before working in Dr. Peter Balsam’s lab at Columbia performing experiments investigating motivated behavior differences between dopamine D2R overexpressing and wild-type mice. My expertise includes coding and data analysis and visualization using MATLAB, mammalian neuroanatomy, and degenerative disease pathology. Outside of neuroscience, I enjoy spending time with my parrot, Huckleberry, playing piano, hiking & walking, and reading about the ancient through modern era histories of the Americas. The image to the right depicts interconnectivity between hippocampal & entorhinal regions in mice.