Lewis Nuñez
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Lewis Nuñez
Lewis is currently a senior at Hunter College, majoring in Psychology with a concentration in Physiology and a minor in Sociology. His research interests are in the neural mechanisms that underlie motivation, working memory, and decision making. Currently, he works under the mentorship of Dr. Nesha Burghardt as he investigates the neural basis of rewarding effects of methamphetamine in adolescent mice. He is specifically interested in the sex differences in behavior and neural activity following methamphetamine treatment in two strains of mice. During summer 2023, Lewis conducted research in Dr. Theresa Desrochers’ Lab at Brown University while investigating neural activity patterns that underly abstract sequences in humans by using fMRI data. Additionally, he investigated the neurobiology of drug-induced schizophrenia in Dr. Kevin Jones’ Lab at the University of Michigan, where his project focused on the regulation of an activity dependent transcription factor that plays a role in physiological properties of mature neurons. As he is preparing to apply for Ph.D. programs in Neuroscience, Lewis’s main goal is to continue to gather experience with different techniques to answer questions about disruption to neural dynamics involved in decision-making and working memory mediate some disorders. Ultimately, with a passion for teaching and opening more spaces for diversity in science, he would like to pursue a career in academia. |