Gloria Choi

Gloria Choi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Investigator in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Choi joined the faculty of MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 2013 and The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory in 2019. She received her bachelor's degree from University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from Caltech, where she studied with David Anderson. She was a postdoctoral research scientist in the laboratory of Richard Axel at Columbia University. Choi's lab studies the interaction of the immune system with the brain and the effects of that interaction on neurodevelopment, behavior and mood. For example, she is particularly interested in learning how cytokines, families of proteins that immune cells use to communicate, may act as neuromodulators that influence the development and activity of neurons in the cortex. To learn more visit here.

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