Gabrielle Magalhães Ulloa, B.A.
She/Her & They/Them
PhD Student, Boston University Graduate Program in Neuroscience
2017 – 2021: B.A. University of Texas at San Antonio
I received a B.A. in Psychology from The University of Texas at San Antonio, where I was a MARC-U*STAR scholar during my junior and senior years. My introduction to research began as an undergraduate research assistant in Dr. Alicia Swan’s research lab, where I mathematically modeled the symptomatology of anxiety disorder development following traumatic experiences. My work in Swan Lab and neuroscience coursework led me to become fascinated with understanding affective regulation at a circuit level. Shortly before graduating, I joined the lab of Dr. Anthony Burgos-Robles as a research technician, where I studied the role of prefrontal and ventral hippocampal circuitry in fear responding and defensive responses such as avoidance. I am now a second-year PhD student in the Graduate Program for Neuroscience at Boston University in the Meyer Lab. My research focuses on the prefrontal dynamics during approach-avoidance conflict and examines how these dynamics may differ across development. Outside of the lab, I enjoy lounging with my cats, playing role-play games, weight-lifting, and using my Dunkin reward perks.