Katrina Blandino

I completed my undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Smith College. While at Smith, I studied the role of motivation driving peer (same sex) relationships of meadow and prairie voles using operant conditioning. After graduation I worked as a tech in the Dymecki Lab at Harvard Medical School where I had the opportunity to be involved in a variety of studies examining stress and the molecular basis of social behaviors using transgenic mice. Then I worked for over two years as a tech at UMass Amherst where I studied the relationship of chronic stress and alcohol addiction using DREADDs and vapor models of chronic alcohol exposure. In the Maguire Lab at Tufts, my project focuses on the role of neurosteroids in alcohol dependence and addiction.