Hi! My name is Lisette and I’m a graduate student in the Neuroscience PhD program at Emory University. I graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2021 with a double major in Psychology & Romance Studies (Italian) and a minor in Neuroscience. After college, I joined the lab of Geoffrey Schoenbaum at the National Institute on Drug Abuse as a post-baccalaureate fellow. Using in vivo electrophysiology, we examined the neural circuits mediating associative learning and decision-making, and how alterations in those circuits contribute to maladaptive behaviors in neuropsychiatric disorders. I plan to continue exploring how the brain controls behavior in grad school. Outside of lab, I enjoy hanging out with my friends, working out, going on walks along the BeltLine, and watching Formula 1.

Strange but true: I don’t think any movie made before 2010 is good…