Chiaki Santiago

I am a 4th year Neurosciences PhD Student in Dr. Brenda Bloodgood's lab. Prior to graduate school, I got my B.A. at Vanderbilt University. While there, I was a part of the Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery, where I worked on a project that was studying how metabotropic glutamate receptors are preclinical candidates for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder. Since then, I joined Dr. Bloodgood's lab to understand how activity-dependent gene transcription work to add flexibility to our neuronal circuitry. Specifically, I would like to understand how activity-dependent gene transcription changes or adapts neuronal representations of space.