I am a Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Hoekstra Lab at Harvard University where I am studying the neural circuit basis of differences in climbing behavior between arboreal and non-arboreal deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus).

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.

Neuron image by Anastasia Nizhnik and Kelsey Tyssowski. This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This image is a representation of my graduate research: a neuron contains a metaphorical machine that takes in activity patterns and outputs a corresponding gene expression program.