Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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2021 - Present
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences,
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Recent Publications
Sleep-Wake States Are Encoded across Emotion Regulation Regions of the Mouse Brain.
Journal Article eNeuro · November 2025 Emotional dysregulation is highly comorbid with sleep disturbances. Sleep is composed of unique physiological states that are reflected by conserved brain oscillations. Though the role of these state-dependent oscillations in cognitive function has been we ... Full text Link to item CiteElectome network factors: Capturing emotional brain networks related to health and disease.
Journal Article Cell Rep Methods · January 22, 2024 Therapeutic development for mental disorders has been slow despite the high worldwide prevalence of illness. Unfortunately, cellular and circuit insights into disease etiology have largely failed to generalize across individuals that carry the same diagnos ... Full text Link to item CitePrenatal environmental stressors impair postnatal microglia function and adult behavior in males.
Journal Article Cell Rep · August 2, 2022 Gestational exposure to environmental toxins and socioeconomic stressors is epidemiologically linked to neurodevelopmental disorders with strong male bias, such as autism. We model these prenatal risk factors in mice by co-exposing pregnant dams to an envi ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Precise neural circuit editing using engineered electrical synapses
ResearchResearch Scientist · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2027Regulating brain networks that mediate depressive states
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Hope for Depression Research Foundation · 2023 - 2026MULTIREGIONAL ELECTRICAL ENCODING OF SOCIAL AGGRESSION
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2021 - 2026View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Pennsylvania ·
2011
Ph.D.