About me

I am a Research Scientist in the Biology Department at MIT and the Broad Institute, working jointly with Sara Prescott and the Biology of Adversity Project. I am broadly interested in autonomic physiology, how interoceptive information is detected and processed, and how these circuits change during stress and disease. I completed my PhD with Steve Liberles at Harvard Medical School, where I used mouse genetic tools to deconstruct cell type-specific sensory functions of the vagus nerve and became fascinated by the bidirectional communication between the body and the brain that drives physiology and perception. I was a postdoc with Yoav Gilad at the University of Chicago, where I used human stem cells to study how genetic variation interacts with environmental stress during brain development. Prior to my doctoral work, I studied applied statistics and genetics in the UK on a Marshall Scholarship.