Shaina (Shae) Weingart
Graduate Student
Advisors: Travis P. Todd, Ph.D. & John Green. Ph.D.
- B.S. Human Biology with minors in Toxicology and Psychology, North Carolina State University 2021
Area(s) of expertise
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
BIO
I am a PhD candidate in the Biobehavioral Psychology Department here at UVM, under the co-mentorship of Dr. Travis Todd and Dr. John Green. Broadly, we are interested in the neural and psychological mechanisms underlying learned behaviors. My research has a specialized focus on the roles of the prelimbic and infralimbic cortices in extinction and renewal within Pavlovian appetitive paradigms. I graduated from North Carolina State University in 2021, where I pursued research in the infectious disease field, investigating the potential link between equine papillomavirus type 2 (EcPV2) and oral squamous cell carcinoma in horses. Additionally, I contributed to an epidemiology and environmental epigenetics research, examining DNA methylation changes in response to environmental exposures and studying their implications for liver cancer prevalence.
Bio
I am a PhD candidate in the Biobehavioral Psychology Department here at UVM, under the co-mentorship of Dr. Travis Todd and Dr. John Green. Broadly, we are interested in the neural and psychological mechanisms underlying learned behaviors. My research has a specialized focus on the roles of the prelimbic and infralimbic cortices in extinction and renewal within Pavlovian appetitive paradigms. I graduated from North Carolina State University in 2021, where I pursued research in the infectious disease field, investigating the potential link between equine papillomavirus type 2 (EcPV2) and oral squamous cell carcinoma in horses. Additionally, I contributed to an epidemiology and environmental epigenetics research, examining DNA methylation changes in response to environmental exposures and studying their implications for liver cancer prevalence.