Welcome!

Hi! I'm Ashley Holloway and I'm a PhD candidate at Northwestern University, working in the Lerner Lab. I'm primarily interested in individual differences in affective behaviors and habit formation.

Previously, I worked with Dr. Mark Wainwright at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago as a research associate. There, I elucidated the mechanism by which thrombin down-regulated astrocytic glutamate transporters, and determined how preventing that down-regulation affected depressive-like behaviors after traumatic brain injury (TBI) in mice. I've also worked as a research assistant in the Rhodes Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where I examined the role of hippocampal neurogenesis in voluntary exercise-induced extinction of conditioned place preference for cocaine.

Outside of research, I love connecting with people on Twitter, speaking up about mental health issues, mentoring, baking, lifting, and cross-stitching!