During my postdoctoral training at UCLA I studied changes in neuronal plasticity in the cortex after stroke and with normal aging using in vivo imaging techniques. Now that I became an independent investigator as an assistant professor on the tenure track at Tulane my laboratory will continue investigating cortical dynamics in vivo and how these dynamics are affected by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. After several meetings and conversations with my colleagues here at Tulane Dr. John McLachlan and Dr. Sarah Lindsey, experts in the endocrinology field and collaborators on this project, I got interested in the potential effects on the brain of BPA, a synthetic compound with estrogenic activity.
