Kristen began her position as an Assistant Professor in the Pharmacology Department at WCM in June 2016. She received her PhD in 2010 from Duke University, where she studied estrogen-mediated neural plasticity during learning and memory in Christina Williams’ lab. She then completed her postdoc in the laboratory of Thomas Kash at the UNC School of Medicine, where she characterized peptide signaling mechanisms of binge alcohol drinking and investigated the effects of chronic exposure to stress and alcohol on
