Updates
Fall 2023: Stories of WiN
I am now working as an editor and writer for Stories of WiN - a project that tells the stories of Women in Neuroscience through interviews and written profiles.
Check out the profiles I’ve written here!
And follow us on Instagram!
Fall 2022: CTSI TL1 Training Program
I’m honored to have been accepted into NYU’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s TL1 Training Program. This program will support my postdoctoral research and will facilitate my training in conducting translational research.
Spring 2022: NYU Postdoctoral Fellow
This February I am joining the Froemke Lab at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine as a Postdoctoral Fellow! I am beyond thrilled to have been given this opportunity and can’t wait to get started.
Post-defense covid-friendly celebration with my committee
December 2021: Dr. Winokur!
This December I successfully defended my dissertation! I am exhausted and filled with joy and gratitude.
If you are interested in learning about my doctoral research, my dissertation document will be available to those affiliated with UMass Amherst this Spring (2022), and will be open to the public in Spring 2023. Publications of this work are also coming soon! Sign up for my news letter to receive updates, and feel free to send me an email if you have questions.
Fall 2020: First Radio Appearance
I had a fantastic time as a guest on the radio show “We Know Some Stuff” - a show that interviews graduate students about their research area. I discussed how neuroscientists study maternal behavior and postpartum depression, and related my more biological work to its broader impacts and significance for helping mothers who are struggling with PPD.
With my advisor Dr. Mariana Pereira at SfN, October 2019
Fall 2019: SfN
At the 2019 Society for Neuroscience Conference in Chicago I shared some of my early maternal gene network analyses.
At the Center for Research on Families Awards Reception, UMass Amherst, May 2019
Spring 2019: Grants & Awards
I am so grateful to have received two grants and a fellowship from the UMass Amherst Graduate School, the Psychology Department’s Rayner Memorial Fund, and the Center for Research on Families this Spring! What a tremendous honor! To read more about my projects that are now being supported through these funds, check out these links:
Presenting research for the Wiley Young Investigators Symposium at the Parental Brain conference, July 2018
Summer 2018: Parental Brain Presentation
I was honored to win the Wiley Young Investigators award at the 2018 Parental Brain conference in Toronto, Canada. It was a fantastic opportunity to meet so many exceptional researchers and to share my work with them.