I am a BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Hoekstra Lab at Harvard University where I am using arboreal and non-arboreal deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) as a comparative system to uncover the neural basis of the evolution of skilled motor behavior.

I recieved my PhD in 2019 from the Biological and Biomecial Sciences program at Harvard University. In my dissertation project, I investigated the relationship between neuronal activity pattern and activity-regulated gene expression. Before grad school, I was a reserch technician in the Gotoh Lab at the University of Tokyo.