Courtney Rivet-Noor

Courtney was born in raised in Michigan. She attended the University of Michigan where she studied Neuroscience. After undergrad, Courtney earned her PhD from the University of Virginia in Neuroscience with a focus on Neuroimmunology. In grad school, she studied the role of the microbiome and the mucus layer in stress-induced depression. As a post-doctoral scholar in the Rawls lab, Courtney will be studying the role of HNF4a in transcriptional regulation of intestinal programs in inflammatory disease, viral infection, and microbiome/mucus disruption.