EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Psychology - Behavioral Neuroscience
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut

M.A. in Psychology - Behavioral Neuroscience
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut

B.A. in Psychology, concentration in Neuroscience
Department of Psychology, Colby College

POSITIONS & EMPLOYMENT

2020 - Present
Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience
Department of Psychology & Program in Neuroscience, Bowdoin College

2015 - 2020
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Developmental Neuropsychobiology Lab, Northeastern University

2016 - 2020
Part-Time Lecturer (Instructor of Record)
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University

2016 - 2017
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology, MCPHS University

2010 - 2015
Graduate Teaching Assistant & Course Assistant
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut

2013 - 2015
Instructor of Record
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut

2012 - 2014
Coordinator of Graduate Teaching Assistants
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH FUNDING & AWARDS

2021 - 2025
Principal Investigator: Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE - funded through NIGMS)
Identification of neural and epigenetic biomarkers for affective dysfunction following early adversity
*competitive renewal awarded for 5/1/24-4/30/25

2020-2022
Awardee: National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program (NIH LRP - funded through NIMH)
Sex-specific effects of early adversity on corticolimbic circuit development

2018 - 2020
Principal Investigator: NARSAD Young Investigator Award (BBRF)
Sex-specific alterations in task-based functional connectivity following early life stress

PUBLICATIONS

*indicates supervised undergraduate contributor
former name: J.A. Corriveau

*Bonauto SM, *Patel KA, Honeycutt JA (2025). 22 and 50 kHz rat ultrasonic vocalization playback reveals sex differences in behavior and cFos expression in brain regions associated with affective processing. Behavioural Brain Research, 478:115326.

Granata LE, Chang A, *Shaheed H, Shinde A, Kulkarni P, Satpute A, Brenhouse HC, Honeycutt JA (2024). Examining brain activity responses during rat ultrasonic vocalization playback: Insights from a novel fMRI translational paradigm. eNeuro, 11(10):eNeuro.0179-23.2024.

*Bonauto SM, *Greuel OM, Honeycutt JA (2023). Playback of aversive 22-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations as a translational assay of negative affective states: An analysis of evoked behavior and brain activity. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 153:105396

Honeycutt JA, Young JW, Porcu A, Sabariego M (2022). Editorial: Negative Valence Systems. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16:1014745.

*Ellis SN, Honeycutt JA (2021). Sex differences in affective dysfunction and alterations in parvalbumin in rodent models of early life adversity. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience - Behavioral Endocrinology, 15:741454.

Granata L, Valentine A, Hirsch J, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC (2021). Trajectories of mother-infant communication: an experiential measure of the impacts of early life adversity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15:632702.

Kulkarni P, Grant S, Morrison TR, Cai X, Iriah S, Kristal BS, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC, Hartner JC, Madularu D, Ferris CF (2020). Characterizing the human APOE epsilon 4 knock-in transgene in female and male rats with multimodal magnetic resonance imaging. Brain Research.
Preprint DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-18040/v1

*Soares AR, Gildawie KR, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC (2020). Region-specific effects of maternal separation on oxidative stress accumulation in parvalbumin neurons of male and female rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 338:112658.

Honeycutt JA, *Demaestri C, *Peterzell S, Silveri MM, Cai X, Kulkarni P, Cunningham MG, Ferris CF, Brenhouse HC (2020). Altered corticolimbic connectivity reveals sex-specific adolescent outcomes in a rat model of early life adversity. eLife, 9:e52651
Preprint DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/700666

Gildawie KR, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC (2020). Region-specific effects of maternal separation on perineuronal net and parvalbumin-expressing interneuron formation in male and female rats. Neuroscience, 428, 23-37.

*Coley EJL, Demaestri C, Ganguly P, Honeycutt JA, *Peterzell S, Rose N, Ahmed N, Holschbach M, Trivedi M, Brenhouse
HC (2019). Cross-generational transmission of early life stress effects on HPA regulators and Bdnf are mediated by sex, lineage, and upbringing. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 13:101.

Ganguly P, Honeycutt JA, *Rowe J, *Demaestri C, Brenhouse HC (2019). Effects of early life stress on cocaine conditioning and AMPA receptor composition are sex-specific and driven by TNF. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 78, 41-51.

*Demaestri C, Brenhouse HC, Honeycutt JA (2019). 22kHz and 55 kHz ultrasonic vocalizations differentially influence neural and behavioral outcomes: Implications for modeling anxiety via auditory stimuli in the rat. Behavioural Brain Research, 360, 134-145.
Preprint DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/395772

Honeycutt JA, Chrobak JJ (2018). Parvalbumin loss following chronic sub-anesthetic NMDA antagonist treatment is age-dependent in the hippocampus: Implications for modeling NMDA hypofunction. Neuroscience, 393, 73-82.
Preprint DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/399188

Sinkevicius KW, Kulkarni P, Morrison T, Caffrey Cagliostro MK, Malmberg S, Sabrick J, Honeycutt JA, Trivedi M, Askew K, Ferris CF (2018). RNaseT2 knockout rats exhibit hippocampal neuropathology and deficits in memory. Disease Models & Mechanisms, 11, 1-12.

Honeycutt JA, *Nguyen J, Kentner A, Brenhouse HC (2017). Effects of water bottle materials and filtration on Bisphenol-A content in laboratory animal drinking water. Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 56(3), 1-4.

Grassi-Oliveira R, Honeycutt JA, Holland F, Ganguly P, Brenhouse HC (2016). Cognitive impairment effects of early life stress in adolescents can be predicted with early biomarkers: Impacts of sex, experience, and cytokines. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 71, 19-30.

Honeycutt JA, *Keary KM, *Kania VM, Chrobak JJ (2016). Parvalbumin is differentially impacted across development in the rat: Evidence for age-related decreases in hippocampal calcium-binding protein expression. Developmental Neuroscience, 38(2), 105-114.

McCall N, Mahadevia D, Corriveau JA, Glenn MJ (2015). Adult emotionality and neural plasticity as a function of adolescent choline supplementation in male rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 132, 125-135.

Coane JH, Sanchez-Gutierrez C, Stillman CM, Corriveau JA (2014). False memory for idiomatic expressions in younger and older adults: evidence for indirect activation of figurative meanings. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:764

Corriveau JA, Glenn MJ (2012). Postnatal choline levels mediate cognitive deficits in a rat model of schizophrenia. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 103, 60-68.

SELECTED CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

*denotes mentored undergraduate contributors
Underlined denotes undergraduate presenter
former name: J.A. Corriveau

Honeycutt JA (2024). Early life adversity drives sex-specific changes in hypervigilance and 5-mC DNA methylation of parvalbumin cells in the rat prefrontal cortex. Stress Neurobiology Workshop, Boston, MA

*Noel ES, *Peña YA, *Bonauto SM, *Chen A, *Ellis SN, Hopkins A, Miller S, Honeycutt JA (2023). Early life adversity leads to changes in DNA methylation in parvalbumin cells: Possible age- and sex-specific epigenetic driver of vulnerability in rats. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC

*Reynolds ZD, Patel KN, Patel K, Honeycutt JA (2023). Corticolimbic neural recruitment and behavioral changes in response to early life adversity are sex-specific in rats. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC

Honeycutt JA (2023). DNA methylation changes in parvalbumin interneurons: possible influence on sex-specific risk following early life adversity. International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

*Bonauto SM, *Hocking A, Honeycutt JA (2023). Ultrasonic vocalization playback as a translational tool to reveal sex-specific affective processing following early life adversity in rats. International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada 

*Noel E, *Peña Y, *Chen A, Honeycutt JA (2023). Exploring sex-specific and developmental outcomes of early life adversity on DNA methylation in parvalbumin-containing interneurons. International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

*Bonauto SM, *Ellis SN, *Noel E, *Patel K, *O’Sullivan L, *Hocking A, Honeycutt JA (2022). Early adversity alters affective processing in response to 22kHz ultrasonic vocalization playback probe with sex-specific responses to therapeutic ketamine. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
Abstract selected to highlight in an SfN sponsored Press Conference on Early Life Adversity

*Noel E, *Chen A, *Bonauto SM, *Ellis SN, *Peña Y, Honeycutt JA (2022). Exposure to early life adversity produces developmental and sex-specific impacts on anxiety-like behavior and DNA methylation in a rat model. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

Honeycutt JA (2022). Aversive ultrasonic vocalization playback as a means of probing anxiety and hypervigilance in rat models of affective [dys]function. International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland

*Ellis SN, Honeycutt JA (2022). The sex-specific effects of acute ketamine treatment on neural and behavioral outcomes following early life adversity. International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland
Best Undergraduate Poster Award to SNE

*Bonauto SM, Honeycutt JA (2022). Ultrasonic vocalization playback as an affective assay at both neural and behavioral levels: Implications for understanding adversity-induced emotional dysfunction. International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland

*Chen A, Honeycutt JA (2022). DNA methylation as a possible epigenetic driver of anxiety-like behavior in an early life adversity model. International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland

*Chen A, *Noel E, Honeycutt JA (2022). DNA methylation as a possible epigenetic driver of anxiety-like behavior in an early life adversity model. Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience: Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Virtual Symposium (NURVS II)

*Bonauto S, McCue ED, Honeycutt JA (2022). Ultrasonic vocalization playback as an affective assay at both neural and behavioral levels: Implications for understanding adversity-induced emotional dysfunction. Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium, Mount Desert Island Biological Labs, Bar Harbor, ME

*Ellis SN, *Chen A, *Noel E, *Bonauto S, *McCue ED, Honeycutt JA (2021). From biomarkers to novel treatments: A multi-domain analysis of the developmental consequences of early life adversity and the role of therapeutic ketamine. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL

Honeycutt JA, Forche A (2021). Neuro at home: adapting experiential learning from the laboratory to the virtual learning environment with DIY brain mounting kits. Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome: A Virtual Event

*Noel ES, Honeycutt JA (2021). The impacts of early life adversity on DNA methylation. Lightning Talk - Virtual Northeast Regional IDeA Conference, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
1st Place - DRIVEN Translational Talk Award

*Bonauto S, McCue ED, Honeycutt JA (2021). Exploring the impact of sex, age, and early life adversity on responses to ultrasonic vocalization playback. Lightning Talk - Virtual Northeast Regional IDeA Conference, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
2nd Place – Best Undergraduate Student Talk

*Ellis SN, Honeycutt JA (2021). The sex specific effects of acute ketamine treatment on parvalbumin and BDNF following early life adversity. Lightning Talk - Virtual Northeast Regional IDeA Conference, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Honorable Mention – Best Undergraduate Student Talk 

*McCue ED, Honeycutt JA (2021). 22kHz ultrasonic vocalization induced anxiety-like behavior in rats to probe sex differences after early life adversity. Lightning Talk - Virtual Northeast Regional IDeA Conference, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Granata L, Valentine A, Hirsch J, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC (2020). Different models of early life adversity differentially alter development of infant ultrasonic vocalizations, adolescent social behavior, and prefrontal cortex cytokine expression across development. Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome: A Virtual Event

Honeycutt JA, Granata L, Demaestri C, Kulkarni P, Ferris CF, Brenhouse HC (2020). A rodent analogue of the fearful face task via ultrasonic vocalization playback: Evidence from behavioral, neural, and task-based fMRI analyses. American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Annual Meeting

Granata L, Honeycutt JA, Valentine A, Brenhouse HC (2020). Impacts of early life adversity on mother-infant relationship in rats: A potential for ultrasonic vocalizations as an experiential measure in adversity models. International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Annual Meeting

*Hexter JC, Lee H-N, Batallan A, Glenn MJ, Honeycutt JA (2020). The neuroanatomical effects of MK-801 on parvalbumin neurons and perineuronal nets of DISC1 knockout rats. Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience: Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Virtual Symposium. (Oral presentation by JCH, sponsored by JAH)

Gildawie K, *Ryll L, *Hexter J, Peterzell S, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC (2020). Potentiated anxiety-like behavior and prefrontal cortex perineuronal net-enwrapped parvalbumin-expressing interneuron disruption: Sex-specific impact of a two-hit model of developmental adversity. Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Annual Meeting - Cancelled due to COVID-19.

Granata L, Gildawie KR, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC (2019). Maternal separation paradigms differentially influence pup communication and prefrontal cortex perineuronal net development in male and female rats. American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL

Honeycutt JA, Granata LE, Demaestri C, Kulkarni PP, Ferris CF, Brenhouse HC (2019). Ultrasonic vocalizations as a means of inducing anxiety via potential threat exposure: Evidence from behavioral, neural, and fMRI analyses in the rat. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL. Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Award (to JAH)

Granata LE, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC (2019). Modulating behavioral effects of early life adversity by targeting prefrontal cortex NMDA NR2A subunits in adolescent rats: impact on infant-caretaker communication, cognition, and anxiety. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL; and International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, IL

Granata LE, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC (2019). Sex-specific effects of maternal separation on sonographic structure and acoustic properties of juvenile rat ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs). Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Gildawie KR, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC (2019). Anxiety-like behavior and prefrontal cortex perineuronal net dysfunction: impact of a two-hit model of developmental adversity in male and female rats. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL; and International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, IL

Gildawie KR, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC (2019). Maternal separation leads to sex-specific alterations in the formation of perineuronal nets around parvalbumin-expressing interneurons in the developing rat prefrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala. Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Meeting, Washington, D.C.

*Soares AR, Gildawie KR, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC (2019). Developmental effects of maternal separation on oxidative stress accumulation in fast-spiking parvalbumin neurons in prefrontal cortex of male and female rats. NEURON Conference, Quinnipiac University, North Haven, CT; Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL
Susanna Bliss Tieman Outstanding Poster Award: to ARS (NEURON)
Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Travel Award (to AS; sponsored by JAH)

*Shaheed HB, Demaestri C, Brenhouse HC, Honeycutt JA (2019). A picture’s worth a thousand words, but a sound can make you anxious: ultrasonic vocalization playback differentially influences neural and behavioral outcomes in a rat model of anxiety. NEURON Conference, Quinnipiac University, North Haven, CT

Honeycutt JA, *Demaestri C, Cai X, *Mehta R, Kulkarni PP, Ferris CF, Brenhouse HC (2018). Altered corticolimbic connectivity in a rat model of early adversity: Evidence from fMRI and neuroanatomical tracing suggests sex-dependent effects of early experiences. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA

Ganguly P, Honeycutt JA, *Rowe J, *Ryll L, *Demaestri C, Brenhouse HC (2018). Effects of early life stress on AMPA receptor composition and cocaine conditioned place preference are sex-specific and driven by TNF. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA

Gildawie KR, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC (2018). Early life stress leads to sex-specific alterations in the formation of perineuronal nets around parvalbumin-expressing interneurons in the developing rat prefrontal cortex. International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA; and Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

Honeycutt JA, *Demaestri C, Cai X, *Mehta R, Kulkarni PP, Ferris CF, Brenhouse HC (2018). Altered corticolimbic connectivity across development in a rat model of early adversity: Evidence from fMRI and neuroanatomical tracing suggest sex-dependent effects of early experience. International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA

Gildawie KR, Honeycutt JA, Brenhouse HC (2018). Early life stress leads to sex-specific alterations perineuronal net formation in the rat prefrontal cortex. Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Honeycutt JA, *Demaestri C, *Peterzell S, Brenhouse HC (2017). Early life adversity and precocial maturation: Sex-specific changes in basolateral amygdala-derived innervation of the prefrontal cortex. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C. 

Honeycutt JA, *Demaestri C, *Peterzell S, Brenhouse HC (2017). Early life adversity and precocial maturation: Sex-specific changes in basolateral amygdala-derived innervation of the prefrontal cortex. Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience SfN Social Poster Session, Washington, D.C. Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Travel Award (to CD; sponsored by JAH)

Gildawie KR, *Goff SA, *Rowe-Hill JR, Honeycutt JA, Ganguly P, Thompson V, Brenhouse HC (2017). Alterations in developmental microglia morphology and pro-inflammatory cytokine release resulting from early life stress and lipopolysaccharide injection in rats. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.

Honeycutt JA, *Demaestri C, *Peterzell S, Brenhouse HC (2017). Early life stress leads to precocial corticolimbic circuit maturation. Boston Area Neuroscience Group SfN Chapter Meeting, Boston, MA

Ganguly P, Honeycutt JA, *Rowe-Hill JR, *Demaestri C, Brenhouse HC (2017). Sex-specific effects on potential TNF-α derived changes in GluA2-containing AMPARs after early life stress. Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, Montreal, Canada

Kulkarni PP, Honeycutt JA, Trivedi MS, Brenhouse HC, Nedelman M, Gamber K, Ferris CF (2016). APOE ε-4 knock-in rat model of Alzheimer’s Disease – sex differences in cognitive behavior and gray matter microarchitecture: Insights on the neuropathology of disease progression using MRI. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA

Honeycutt JA, Holland FH, Ganguly P, Grassi-Oliveira R, Brenhouse HC (2016). Early adolescent biomarkers and neuronal expression of parvalbumin are predictive of cognitive dysfunction. Neurobiology of Stress Workshop, Irvine, CA

Honeycutt JA, *Keary KM, *Kania VM, *Chaluparambil MM, Chrobak JJ (2015). Chronic  ketamine administration differentially alters parvalbumin expression as a function of age and time of sacrifice: Evidence for dynamic protein expression. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL

Corriveau JA, *McMahon C, Chrobak JJ (2014). Impact of age and chronic ketamine treatment on parvalbumin expression in rats: Evidence for variation in protein expression. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.

Corriveau JA, *Purohit P, Chrobak JJ (2013). Age-related distribution of parvalbumin-expressing GABAergic interneurons within the rat hippocampus and surrounding cortices. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA

Chrobak JJ, Chen C-M, Long LL, Corriveau JA (2013). Yesterday, four hours, thirty and five minutes ago: competition between spatial memories in the rat and the effects of acute and chronic ketamine. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA

Glenn MJ, Corriveau JA, *St. Laurent R, *Helm SR (2013). Dietary intervention with the essential nutrient choline in rat models of schizophrenia. Society for Neuroscience Conference, San Diego, CA

Corriveau JA, *Carmona VE, *LaRossa C, Chen C-M, Chrobak JJ (2012). Predicting error type: Temporal and pharmacological manipulations of proactive interference in a delayed match-to-sample radial water maze task. Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA

Corriveau JA, Hinman JR, *LaRossa C, Salamone JD, Chrobak JJ (2011). “Episodic” memory in the rat: The short and long term retention of a trial-unique conditional discrimination following NMDA antagonist treatment. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.

Corriveau JA, Glenn MJ (2010). Attenuation of cognitive deficits with adolescent choline supplementation in a rat model of schizophrenia. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA  

Saporta AN, Corriveau JA, Mahadevia D, Glenn MJ (2010). Efficacy of imipramine and prenatal choline supplementation to combat behavioral despair in adult female rats as a function of prenatal stress levels. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA

Corriveau JA, Glenn MJ (2009). Past availability of dietary choline modulate subsequent choline intake and adult choline levels mediate athe anxiolytic effects of enrichment. Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium, Bar Harbor, ME

Corriveau JA, Glenn MJ (2009). Preventing severe psychosis: Anti-schizophrenic properties of supplemental choline in a rat model of schizophrenia. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL. FUN Session. 

INVITED TALKS, PANELS, & SELECTED SYMPOSIA/COLLOQUIA (past 7yrs)

2024:
-Celebrating Maine INBRE - Invited Speaker, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
-Intramural Research Program Seminar Series - Invited Speaker, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD
-Career Panel - Panelist, Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium, Mount Desert Island Biological Labs, Bar Harbor, ME
-Biology Seminar Series - Invited Speaker, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

2023:
-Biological Basis of Addiction Panel - Invited Speaker & Panelist, Maine Biomedical Innovation and Technology Conference, Portland, ME
-Governor Mills 5th Annual Opioid Response Summit - Invited Speaker & Panelist: The State of Addiction Research in Maine, Portland, ME
-Diverse Roles of Parvalbumin-Expressing Neurons in Behavior - Symposium Speaker, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
-Behavioral Neuroscience Seminar Series - Invited Speaker, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
-Neuroscience Seminar Series - Invited Speaker, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
-Hope College Neuroscience Program Seminar - Invited Speaker, Hope College, Holland, MI

2022:
-Press Conference on Consequences of Early Life Adversity on the Brain - Panelist, Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, San Diego, CA
-Society for Neuroscience Professional Development Workshop - Chair: “Beyond the Rainbow: Empowering LGBTQ+ Trainees and Colleagues Toward Successful and Authentic Careers, Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, San Diego, CA
-Science Communication and Social Media - Guest Lecture, Communicating Science Course, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory INBRE Summer Course, Bar Harbor, ME
-Ultrasonic Vocalizations: A Window into the Rodent Brain? - Symposium (Chair & Speaker), International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Glasgow, Scotland
-Neuroscience Institute Seminar Series - Invited Speaker, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
-MDI Science Café: Growing Maine’s Scientific Workforce - Panel Speaker, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
-Leading Edge Parenting and Family Life Panel - Panel Speaker, Leading Edge Fellow Program Virtual Panel on Parenting as an Early Career Researcher/Faculty

2021:
-Maladaptive Motivated Behavior Seminar Series – Invited Speaker, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
-Maine INBRE External Advisory Committee Meeting - Investigator Presenter, Mount Desert Island Biological Labs, Bar Harbor, ME
-Maine Biological & Medical Sciences Symposium - Invited Speaker, Mount Desert Island Biological Labs, Bar Harbor, ME
-Shea Lab - Invited Speaker, Lab of Stephen Shea, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
-Wellesley College Biological Psychology Course - Invited Lecture, Wellesley, MA

2020:
-Ask A Scientist Segment - Invited Speaker (via Facebook Live), Asheville Museum of Science, Asheville, NC
-Boston College Postdoctoral Association - Panelist: Advice on the Academic Job Market, Boston, MA
-John Stark High School Psychology Course - Guest Speaker, Weare, NH
-Trinity College Neuroscience Program Lecture Series - Invited Lecture, Hartford, CT
-Winter Conference on Brain Research - Speaker: Sex differences in neurodevelopmental abnormalities arising from early life insults, Big Sky, MT - 2020 Travel Fellow

2019:
-Northeastern University Nu Rho Psi Induction - Invited Induction Speaker, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
-Conference on Affective Modeling - Invited Speaker, International Graduate School of Neuroscience, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany
-Northeastern Undergraduate Researchers of Neuroscience (NEURONs) Meeting - Invited Speaker, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
-Bowdoin College Department of Psychology - Invited Seminar, Brunswick, ME
-Colby College Department of Psychology - Invited Seminar, Waterville, ME
-Providence College Department of Psychology - Invited Seminar, Providence, RI
-Western New England University Department of Neuroscience - Invited Seminar, Springfield, MA
-Quinnipiac University Department of Psychology - Invited Seminar, North Haven, CT

2018:
-University of North Texas Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience Seminar Series - Invited Speaker, Fort Worth, TX
-Elizabethtown College Department of Psychology - Invited Seminar, Elizabethtown, PA
-Northeastern University Nu Rho Psy Meeting - Invited Speaker, Boston, MA
-Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Meeting - Symposium Speaker: “Neurocircuitry and neuroplasticity over the lifespan”, Atlanta, GA - 2018 Travel Award
-Brookline High School Neuroscience Club - Invited Speaker, Boston, MA
-Williams College Department of Psychology - Invited Seminar, Williamstown, MA

TEACHING: COURSES TAUGHT

Bowdoin College (Assistant Professor)
Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory: Affective Neuroscience (2020, 2021, 2022)
Physiological Psychology (2021x2, 2022, 2023)

Northeastern University (Lecturer)
Biological Psychology (2016, 2019)
Clinical Neuroscience (2018x2)
The Art of Neuroscience (Independent Study, 2018)
Undergraduate Teaching Experience (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Learning & Motivation (2019, 2020)
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity (Guest Lecture)
Clinical Neuroscience Proseminar Graduate Course (Guest Lecture)
Ethics & Professional Issues Graduate Course (Guest Lecture - social media)

MCPHS University (Adjunct Assistant Professor)
Introduction to Psychology (2016, 2017)

University of Connecticut (Instructor)
Physiological Psychology (2015)
Introduction to Psychology (2013-2015)
Introduction to Psychology Laboratory (2010-2014)
Introduction to Psychology Honors Laboratory (2011-2012)

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

Award for Fostering Diversity & Inclusion, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (2024)
Gratitude Award, LGBTQ+ Resource Center Rainbow Graduation, Northeastern University, Boston, MA (2020)
Travel Fellowship, Winter Conference on Brain Research, Big Sky, MT (2020)
Leadership Development Program, Society for Neuroscience (2019-2020)
Trainee Professional Development Award, Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL (2019)
Travel Award, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Meeting, San Deigo, CA (2018)
Travel Award, Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Meeting, Atlanta, GA (2018)
Symposia Travel Award, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington DC (2017)
Travel Award, Neurobiology of Stress Workshop, Irvine, CA (2016)
Institute of Teaching & Learning Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of Connecticut (2015)
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut (2015)
Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut (2010 – 2015) 
APA 2014 Dissertation Research Award Recipient, American Psychological Association (2014)
Neuroscience Fellowship, University of Connecticut (2012 – 2014) 
Summer Special Projects Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Connecticut (2010 – 2014)
Advanced Doctoral Summer Fellowship, University of Connecticut (2012)
Edward Colgan Prize in Psychology, Colby College (2010)
Research Scholars Program for Underrepresented Groups in the Sciences, Colby College (2009 – 2010) 
Psi Chi National Honor Society, Colby College (2007 – 2010)
Dean of Faculty Award for Student Special Projects, Colby College (2009)
 

LEADERSHIP & SERVICE

LGBTQIA2S+ Sub-Committee Member, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2023 - Present)
Faculty Advisor, Bowdoin Chapter of Out in STEM (oSTEM) (2022 - Present)
Travel Award Committee Member, Stress Neurobiology Workshop (2024)
Judge - Trainee Poster Awards, Stress Neurobiology Workshop (2024)
Out in STEM (oSTEM) Mentor, mentoring two LGBTQ+ graduate students (2019-2021)
Skype a Scientist Program (2017 – 2021)
Council Member, Boston Area Neuroscience Group (SfN Chapter) (2017 – 2020)
Reviewer: Undergraduate Travel Award Committee, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience  (2018)
Judge: Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo, Northeastern University (2018)
PLOS Blog #SfN15 Twitter Contributor (2015)
American Psychological Association Member (2014 – 2015)
Representative (BNS), Graduate Student Advisory Committee, University of Connecticut (2011 – 2013)
President, BRIDGE (LGBTQ+ Organization), Colby College (2009 – 2010)
Colby Emerging Leaders Program (2007)

EDITORIAL & REVIEW ACTIVITY

REVIEWING EDITOR
Frontiers in Emotion Regulation and Processing

GUEST ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

AD-HOC REVIEWER
Behavioural Brain Research
Brain Research
Developmental Psychobiology
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
European Neuropsychopharmacology
Hormones and Behavior
Molecular Psychiatry
Nature
Neurobiology of Stress
Neuroscience
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Nutritional Neuroscience
Pharmacological Reports
Physiology & Behavior
PLoS ONE
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Psychopharmacology
Stress
Translational Issues in Psychological Science

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS

Society for Neuroscience
Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience
International Behavioral Neuroscience Society
International Society for Developmental Psychobiology
Organization for the Study of Sex Differences
Boston Area Neuroscience Group (Council Member; SfN Local Chapter)
500 Queer Scientists
The Science and Entertainment Exchange
Out in STEM (oSTEM)
 

*Please contact me for a complete copy of my Curriculum Vitae including mentoring, professional development, and service activities.