I am a third-year MD/PhD student/first-year graduate student studying Parkinson's Disease (PD) using a mouse model of idiopathic PD and a fly model of alpha-synuclein (the protein that characteristically aggregates in PD neurons) toxicity. I hope to approach disease pathogenesis from an aging and metabolism perspective by using metabolomic analysis in a PD mouse model to furnish targets for genetic or pharmacological manipulation in the fly and in mammalian cells. 

My past research experience also involves the circuits of pain and somatosensation in the mouse spinal cord, oxytocin receptor cells, post-stroke needs and care delivery for young stroke survivors (this research post also involved several opportunities for science communication), and cognition and memory in healthy aging.