Oriana Williams
Born: Orlando, Florida
B.S Neuroscience and Behavior (2020)
Florida Atlantic University
As an undergraduate student, I studied at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, and obtained a degree in Neuroscience and Behavior. Following graduation, I worked as a research assistant using rodent models to study the thalamus’s role in sleep-dependent memory consolidation during object place recognition tasks. From a young age, neurodegenerative diseases have interested me and have fueled a passion to work to try and understand more about them. The experience I gained working in behavioral neuroscience has led me now as a graduate student to pursue a research path more focused on cellular and molecular biology approaches to study Alzheimer’s Disease. In the Thinakaran Lab, I will be investigating the role of BIN1’s functional role in microglial cells and how this may contribute to neuroinflammatory events in Alzheimer's disease.