Alanna Carey is a Ph.D. candidate in Neurobiology in the Biology Program. She is from Acton, Massachusetts, and she received her BS in Biology and Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in May 2016. Prior to starting at Boston University, she worked as a Research Assistant in the lab of Dr. Beth Stevens at Boston Children’s Hospital exploring the role of microglia and the complement system in development and Schizophrenia. She is now advised by Dr. Jerry Chen; she is using a genetically diverse mouse model to understand how genetic contributions influence variations in learning at the gene-expression, circuit, and behavioral levels in an automated home-cage, goal-directed learning task. Her expected graduation date is Spring 2027, where her future goal is to investigate how specific cell-types mechanistically influence learning disorders and disabilities in learning and memory, utilizing genetic diversity.
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