2028

I am majoring in neuroscience and biology with a minor in health care management. Broadly, I investigate neurodegeneration, which has fascinated me since high school. Before learning about neurodegenerative diseases, I thought that scientists had conquered their understanding of disease pathology. However, I was wrong, and I have since been investigating how choroid plexus morphology and perfusion change after the onset of Alzheimer’s disease using various imaging modalities as a part of the Detre Lab. I also hope to be able to find unique pathological indications and connections to neurodegenerative disease from MRI scans.

I am also studying Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in Drosophila as a means of assessing whether single-gene changes can lead to a rescue of ALS phenotypes as a part of the Song Lab. In the future, I plan to translate my findings in Drosophila to IPSC models.

Outside of research, I am involved in Grey Matters at Penn, a neuroscience journal club. I have a fun time making illustrations for the articles and diving into fascinating neuroscience topics that are often not discussed. I am also involved in Penn’s Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT). In my free time, I like running.

Fall 2025 CURF Grant Recipient (Louis H Castor, M.D., C’48 Undergraduate Research Grant)
Johnson Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania
Robeson Cooper Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania

Academic Major(s): Biology, Neuroscience

I am a Psychology and Linguistics double major and a Linguistics MA submatriculant at the College of Arts and Sciences, and I am broadly interested in how people interpret meanings in semantics-pragmatics interface phenomena and canonical psycholinguistic areas like language production and comprehension. For instance, I am currently working with Dr. Florian Schwarz and Dr. Paloma Jeretič on unpacking the meaning of vice versa in formal semantics and investigating the constraints placed on the available meaning of vice versa. Beyond research, I enjoy reading non-fiction books in Cognitive Science; watching SNL, stand-ups, and K-dramas; and learning foreign languages.