Hunter Lanovoi is a Ph.D. Candidate at Rutgers University. His dissertation work defines the role that oxytocinergic neuromodulation in the central nucleus of amygdala plays in the changes in social decision-making observed during sickness. His work has found that, in mice, social decision-making during sickness depend on social rank and sex and that responses from oxytocin receptor expressing neurons in the central amygdala signal salient conspecifics. In tandem Hunter is actively engaged in science policy, having served as the former president of the Science Policy and Advocacy group at Rutgers (SPAR). Hunter holds a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Rollins College.
