Biography
Originally from northern California, Olivia moved down to San Diego to study Physiology and Neuroscience at UCSD, where she worked with Dr. Jill Leutgeb. In the Leutgeb Lab, she studied spatial learning and memory networks to decode how specialized cell types in hippocampus and medial entorhinal cortex (grid cells!) represent space and time using in vivo electrophysiology. In the fall of 2017, Olivia moved to Chapel Hill to pursue a PhD in neuroscience. She is interested in studying the role of the serotonin system in anxiety during her time in the Kash Lab.
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