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Raisa Karim
Hunter College

Raisa Karim is a junior at Hunter College double majoring in Biochemistry and Thomas Hunter Honors (mini concentration on Asian American literature). She is a part of the Yalow Honors Scholars program, secretary of Hunter’s Pre Health Organization, a General Chemistry Peer TA and an Undergraduate Student Government senator. She started her research career with Dr. Allyson K. Friedman and Regis Shanley in the Friedman laboratory on stress susceptibility and resilience in mice. In the summer of 2018, she worked on a project concerning the effect of estrogen on stress coping mechanisms in female mice. In the summer of 2019, she worked with Dr. Corey Baimel and Dr. Adam Carter on encoding valence in the basolateral amygdala to nucleus accumbens circuits using retrograde injections, brain slicing and microscopy. She hopes to return to the Friedman lab in the academic year 2019 to continue working on the reward and dopaminergic system in mice. She is pursuing an MD/PhD career because she wants to gain a deeper appreciation for the benchwork needed to innovate solutions in the clinical setting.
 
Posters/Presentations
  1. R. Karim, E. Blicker, P. Golubwoksi, E. Hernandez, T. Fung, A. Onoichenco, C. Guevara, M. Regis Shanley, and Allyson K. Friedman. “Neuronal Mechanisms Underlying Repeated Variable Social Stress”. Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students; November 2018. Indianapolis, Indianna. Received award
  2. M. Regis Shanley, C. Guevara, A. Seidenberg, E. Hernandez, A. Onoichenco, P. Golubwoksi, R. Karim, A. K. Friedman.“The role of estrogen in mediating stress induced changes in ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons”. 48th Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting; November 2018. San Diego, CA.
  3. R. Karim, C. Baimel, A. Carter. “Valence encoding in basolateral amygdala to nucleus accumbens projections”. 6th Annual Summer Student Research Conference; July 2019. New York, NY.
     4. R. Karim, C. Baimel, A. Carter. “Valence encoding in basolateral amygdala to nucleus       accumbens projections”. NYU CNS SURP Symposium; July 2019. New York, NY.