Fast Track Master's Graduate Students
Katie Copelas
UMass Amherst, 2020, BS Biology, BS Psychology (Neuroscience Track)
Advisor: Mariana Pereira
Research Interests: Circuitry behind maternal behavior in mother rats in an effort to identify subregions of and evaluate recruitment of offspringresponsive populations of the medial preoptic area that project to the infralimbic cortex and the ventral tegmental area during maternal caregiving behavior.
Kelly Fischer
BS in Biochemistry and molecular biology, UMass Amherst
Advisor: Paul Katz
Research Interests: I am interested in deepening our understanding of decision making in the nudibranch sea slug Berghia stephanieae through the use of chemical cues and the animal's olfactory system and a new rapid behavioral assay
Ani Maroyan
BS in Psychology, minor in Biology, UMass 2020
Advisor: Paul Katz
Research Interests: Understanding the olfactory navigation of Berghia stephanieae when their olfactory organs are severed and allowed to regenerate.
