I was awarded a 2023 ILCB post-doc fellowship to work with Adrien Meguerditchian (LPC) and Olivier Coulon (INT). My work focuses on the anatomic changes that occur in baboon development from birth to adulthood, with a special focus on lateralization of grey and white matter. The analysis of these data will permit greater insight into the evolution of the substrate of human language. I plan to apply the same analysis to commonly studied model primate species, in order to create valuable comparative resources for researchers investigating cognitive processes in model species.
After training in evolutionary neuroanatomy and architectonics during her PhD with Todd Preuss (Yerkes Primate Research Center/Emory University, US), I received a Marie Skłodowska Curie Independent Fellowship to further my training in comparative neuroimaging methods with Rogier Mars (Radboud University, NL/University of Oxford, UK), eventually developing comprehensive white matter atlases for the chimpanzee and gibbon. My long-term research goals are to contribute brain organization resources that offer insight into the evolution of large brains across mammalian taxa.