Amir Alayoubi has joined the lab as a 1st year rotation student through the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Neuroscience program. Amir was recently a lab manager at California State University San Marcos, where he received his B.A. in Psychological Science, and investigated the neuroendocrine mechanisms of postpartum depression and anxiety in mice. Amir is interested in studying the individual differences that underlie susceptibility and resilience to acute, chronic, and early life stressors.
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Our primary goal is to understand the processes that shape evolutionary trajectories. We focus on the mechanisms of convergent evolution of behavioral and morphological traits. We link molecular, neural, and developmental mechanisms to their consequences for organismal phenotypes, and we investigate the neural and hormonal mechanisms of context- or experience-dependent changes in behavior.
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