Mentor: Donna Toufexis

Subprogram: Biobehavioral

Areas: Behavioral neuroscience, the development of habitual behavior, sex differences, stress

Mentor: Sayamwong Hammack

Subprogram: Biobehavioral

Areas: My research focuses on the effects of chronic stress and the mechanism how chronic stress might produce anxiety like behavior, using transgenic mouse model. I am also interested in the neuropeptide called the pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and its effects on anxiety like behavior.

Mentor: Sayamwong Hammack

Subprogram: Biobehavioral

Areas: My areas of interest include stress and anxiety and their effects on the brain, as well as the role of stress in reinstating behaviors related to addiction.

Areas: I am interested in investigating the biopsychosocial underpinnings of drug dependence and interventions to more effectively treat it.

Subprogram: Social

Mentor: Elizabeth Pinel