As a PhD student in Neuroscience at Tulane University, my research employs the use of in vivo 2-photon excitation microscopy to evaluate the effects of aging on subcellular structural plasticity in the cerebral cortex.

Currently, I’m working with an interdisciplinary team of scientists on a NIA Program Project Grant (P01AG071746) to evaluate whether healthy vs. unhealthy (i.e. hypertensive, diabetic) models of female aging prior to menopause can alter the efficacy of postmenopausal estrogen therapy in cortical synaptic plasticity and neurovascular coupling. Click the following link to read more about this work: https://www.estrogenppg.tulane.edu/