As a research technician in the Axel Lab, Eliza worked with Dr. Marlin for two years studying how traumatic experiences in one generation may have behavioral and anatomical effects on their offspring. Before joining the lab, Eliza graduated from Middlebury College in 2017 with high honors in neuroscience and a minor in anthropology. She first discovered her love of the brain by reading about the origins of Homo sapiens, and has since been intrigued by how evolutionary pressures could create such a complex and nuanced organism. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Maria Tosches’ lab at Columbia, studying the evolution of neural circuits in the vertebrate forebrain using the salamander Pleurodeles waltl. She is also co-president of Women in Science at Columbia, where she is able to join together her passions for science communication and advocacy in the broader Columbia community.

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