Working under the Principle Investigator Dr. Jane Flinn who focuses on rodent studies involving the cognitive and behavioral effects of Alzheimer's Disease and Traumatic Brain Injury. Responsibilities include animal inspection; handling, examining for injury, behavioral/cognitive tests; nesting, circadian rhythm, open field maze, elevated zero maze, Morris water maze, Barnes maze, fear conditioning, and morphological tests; histology, IHC, western blot, and zinpyr-1.Leader of project on the effects of chronic zinc supplementation on the behavior and tauopathy of an Alzheimer’s Disease mouse model containing the APOE4 allele. Responsibilities include team leadership, training new research assistants on various procedures, and scheduling.

I have taught several different classes including Biopsychology, Biopsychology Lab, and Principles of Learning. Additionally I have assisted various associate professors with grading and organization including Biological Bases of Alzheimer’s Disease, Neuronal Bases of Learning and Memory, Neurobiology of Mental Illness, and Current Topics in Neuroscience; Mystery, Madness, & Murder

Worked under the Principle Investigator Dr. Pamela Greenwood whose lab focuses on the cognitive effects of aging in humans and various memory improvement training procedures. Leader of project on Attentional Memory Episodic Training and Methylation Cognitive Psychology. Responsibilities include training new research assistants, giving one-on-one training sessions to participants, and analyzing data through SPSS