Jordan Gross
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Jordan is a senior at New York University pursuing a bachelor's degree in psychology and double minors in child and adolescent mental studies and genetics. Jordan is interested in understanding the neuroscience underlying behavior. During summer 2022, Jordan worked with Dr. Qian Yang at Dr. Hongjun Song's lab at the University of Pennsylvania, investigating an autism risk gene as it relates to cortical development using a human brain organoid model. Additionally, she is currently working with Dr. Julieta Lischinsky at Dr. Dayu Lin's lab to investigate neural circuitry for innate social behaviors, specifically aggression and mating in mice. At the Lin Lab, she is pursuing research on the medial amygdala and if the expression of a specific embryonic transcription factor in mice can predict sex-specific responses to aggression. Jordan plan to apply to Ph.D. programs in behavioral neuroscience and related areas for the fall 2023 cycle with the goal of one day leading research at her own lab. As a researcher, she would like to emphasize the importance of mentorship, especially for fellow women of color in STEM. She would like to pursue research topics using interdisciplinary techniques from neuroscience, psychology, and genetics. She is interested in a variety of topics within behavioral neuroscience, like the neural mechanisms of autism and related social behaviors, memory and Alzheimer's disease, and how learning/experience alters the brain and affects future generations' genes and behavior. |