Experience

• University of Mary Washington

  Assistant Professor

  I teach multiple courses that prepare our students for careers in research and allied health professions. These include Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, Neuroethology, and multiple seminars on neurobiology.
  I also maintain an active research laboratory aimed at engaging undergraduate students in research. The studies that we perform focus on understanding the naturalistic social behavior of laboratory mice, and the physiological (primarily neurological) systems that control these behaviors. The overarching goal of these studies is to understand the neural processes involved in conveying dominant (and subordinate) social status to animals, and whether these traits are intrinsic to the animal or are determined by environmental stimuli. Results from our studies can be applied to both clinical (i.e. modeling human pathology) and ethological (i.e. understanding ecological and evolutionary processes) fields of science.

• Medical University of South Carolina

  Post-Doctoral Fellow

  Designing and executing experiments to assess the role of stress neuroendocrine systems in relapse to cocaine.

• Medical University of South Carolina

  PACD Scholar

  Mentoring students at liberal arts universities through competitive research programs at a large, well equipped lab facility. This included designing and executing research projects, compiling and analyzing data, and preparing presentations for local and international conferences.

• Charité - NeuroCure Exzellenzcluster

  Postdoctoral Fellow - Animal Outcome Core Facility

  Building and executing behavioral phenotyping studies to comprehensively assess the behavioral pathology (or healthy behavior) of rodent models of psychiatric diseases.