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.

Areas:  I am interested in the intersection of social-environmental contexts and neurocognitive functioning in pediatric chronic illness with the larger goal of developing more effective, scalable behavioral interventions to support functional outcomes in adolescents and families. In particular, I am interested in the biosocial mechanisms that contribute to health behaviors in youths with chronic illness (e.g., food allergy and type 1 diabetes).

Mentor: Amy Hughes Lansing

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.

Mentor:  Diann E. Gaalema

Subprogram: Human Behavioral Pharmacology

Areas: I am interested in the intersection between physical fitness and psychology. Factors I'd like to explore include coping mechanisms, motivation, and body image.

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

Subprogram: Social

Mentor: Elizabeth Pinel