Isabella Anna Bodziony
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Isabella is currently a senior at Hunter College pursuing a major in Psychology with a concentration in Physiological Psychology, and minors in Art History and Biology.
They have spent the summer working in Dr. Marina Picciotto’s lab, examining the epigenetic regulators in context-dependent fentanyl tolerance. She has spent the previous summer working in Dr. Jill Becker’s lab, researching the sex differences of socialization on dopamine levels in rats, using a virus called GRAB DA to track the dopamine levels with the use of fiber photometry. Isabella has been working in Dr. Nesha Burghardt’s lab since January 2024, their first project regarding the sex differences of conditioned place preference in C-57 and 129 Sv mice when injected with methamphetamine. Currently, she is investigating the effects of prenatal exposure to curcumin on behavioral behaviors in adult mice. Isabella’s research interests lie within addiction studies, more specifically, neurogenesis for addiction recovery, as well as the effects that opioids have on the brain. |