Throughout my scientific career I have utilized light microscopy to probe dynamic processes within the nervous system. I completed my MD/PhD at the University of Maryland School of Medicine with Dr. Thomas Blanpied. There I collaborated with Dr. Eric Betzig to develop super-resolution techniques to measure actin polymerization at the synapse of living neurons with unprecedented resolution. Following completion of residency in adult neurology at UCSF in 2016, my postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Vikaas Sohal focused on two questions: First, how does abnormal synaptic function impair the ability of prefrontal circuits to encode relevant information during social behavior? Second, how is information relevant to different types of behavioral information encoded in parallel during behaviors? My laboratory at the U uses transcriptomic and optical imaging methods to define heterogeneous cell populations which compose cortical representations of social, contextual, and anxiety-related information.