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
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.
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.
Areas of Expertise
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory