Education

2000-2005

Doctorate of Philosophy in Biomedical Sciences: Neuroscience

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

Dissertation:  Modeling Age-Related Motor Learning Deficits with Functional Neuroimaging Connectivity Analyses

1994-1999

Bachelor of Science in Applied Psychology,

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

1994-1999

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry,

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

Awards

2005

University of Florida College of Medicine

Graduate Fellowship for Outstanding Research

2005, 2004

Human Brain Mapping Student Stipend Award

2003, 2002

ISMRM Student Stipend Award

1994-1998

Georgia HOPE scholar and Governor Scholar

1993

Georgia Governors Honors Program - Math

Research Experience

2006-current

Postdoctoral research assistant in the Biomedical Imaging Technology Center. 

Primary investigations include:

Mediation of bihemispheric functional connectivity via the corpus callosum

Exploring the neural basis for linguistic conceptual combination

Assessing neural responses to taste perception

2001 - 2005

Graduate research assistant in the Human Functional Neuroimaging Lab. 

Primary investigations included:

Influences of age and learning on functional connectivity

Hunger and neural dysfunction in Prader-Willi Syndrome

Adapting a nonmagnetic keyboard for fMRI