ABOUT ME
Mark (he/him/his) is a PhD student in the Neuroscience Program at UCSF. He received his B.A. in Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Psychology, and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University - New Brunswick in 2016.
During his undergraduate studies, he worked under Dr. George Wagner studying mechanisms of reactive oxygen species and Parkinson’s Disease. After graduating, he worked as a lab manager/technician for Dr. Benjamin Samuels studying neurobiological mechanisms of stress and antidepressant treatment response, as well as, Dr. Kasia Bieszczad studying epigenetic modulation of long-term memory formation.
Currently, he is a graduate student in Dr. Mazen Kheirbek’s Lab at UCSF where he works on research leveraging modern system neuroscience approaches, optogenetics and in vivo calcium imaging, to study neural circuit mechanisms of emotional behaviors.