Micah is a second year graduate student in the Neuroscience PhD program. She attended Baylor University in Waco, TX where she earned her BS in Neuroscience and was part of the McNair Scholars Program. Her past work as an undergraduate includes training in sleep and cognitive neuroscience as well as the regulation of gene expression. Additionally, she is broadly interested in elucidating the mechanisms involved in depression and other complex brain disorders while also advocating for mental health awareness. 

Ph.D. student a part of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Iowa interested in studying the connection between sensory hypersensitivity and negative affective brain states using rodent migraine models. My primary research expertise involves the execution of an intricate experimental pipeline, denoted as "Electomics," which has been novelly created to study the complexities of brain-behavioral relationships.

Ben brings to the team substantial expertise in epigenomics, bioinformatics, and behavioral expertise in stress and migraine-related studies.