About Me

I am a postdoc in Dr. Nirao Shah's lab at Stanford University. I was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I went to undergrad at the University of Oklahoma. After undergrad, I went to grad school at Tulane University in New Orleans, where I got my PhD in Neuroscience while working in Dr. Jill Daniel’s behavioral neuroendocrinology lab. During my PhD, I established that a sex difference in impulse control that is observed in humans (females have better impulse control than males, on average) is also present in rats and it is mediated by neonatal sex hormones. After grad school, my academic journey moved out west, to the Bay Area where I joined Dr. Nirao Shah’s lab, first at UCSF and now at Stanford. In Nirao's lab, I have been immersed in molecular and genetic techniques while studying sexually differentiated social behaviors in mice. Using these techniques, I recently identified for the first time in the vertebrate brain, a neural locus that innately encodes mate recognition in male but not female mice. I am currently on the faculty job market, and I am very excited about starting my own research lab (check out my research section).