Welcome! I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Christoph Kellendonk at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute. My research interests include in aging, dopamine, acetylcholine, learning & decision making.
I completed my PhD at Brown University studying the effects of early life adversity on the dopamine system with the combined mentorship of of Drs. Kevin Bath, Michael Frank and Christopher Moore. My thesis assessed the effects of unpredictable and adverse early experiences on reward learning and decision making, using behavioral, molecular and computational neuroscience approaches. This work was supported in part by a F31 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Meghan Gallo 