Rebecca M. Shansky

1 month ago | thetransmitter.org | Rebecca M. Shansky |Rachel Buckley |Angie Voyles Askham |Austin Coley

“Becca! Becca! I have something to tell you!”During a conference coffee break in 2019, I looked up to see a long-time colleague approaching me with what appeared to be great urgency. What could his exciting news be? I wondered. He looked at me and beamed. “I studied a female!”On the surface, you might not think that the simple act of performing an experiment on a female mouse should be cause for such celebration.

1 month ago | thetransmitter.org | Rebecca M. Shansky |Paul Middlebrooks |Claudia Lopez Lloreda

Rebecca Shansky is professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where she directs the Laboratory of Neuroanatomy and Behavior. Her team uses rodent models to explore the links between brain structure and function, focusing on how individual differences in response to trauma shape long-term memories. Shansky earned her Ph.D. in neurobiology at Yale University and completed postdoctoral work at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai before joining the faculty at Northeastern in 2011.