Computational neuroscience researcher.
Grace has been involved with FSU's Swing Dance Club and FSU's ESA S.E.E.D.S chapter, Second Harvest of the Big Bend,
FSU Mathematics Department, and Unconquered by Debt.
My mom's chili.
Grace's primary research interests are in social and developmental neuroscience, computational neuroscience, and neurotoxicology. Grace conducted research as a Directed Individual Study (DIS) student at FSU this year under Dr. Elizabeth Hammock. In the fall semester, she finished work on her project from the previous year on oxytocin, an important hormone in social behavior, as an anti-inflammatory to cultured microglial cells, which are the innate immune cells of the brain. In the spring, Grace has been pursuing a project on the expression of oxytocin in mouse vaginal cells. Both of these projects have implications for our understandings of social behaviors, especially in regards to matters like neurodevelopment, birth, and maternal behaviors. In the summer, Grace will be conducting research with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base. The work will be focusing on understanding and modeling the visual systems of insects.