Julia is a PhD student in the Neuroscience Curriculum who joined the Cohen lab in 2024. Julia graduated from Saint Louis University with a B.S. in Neuroscience in Fall 2022. There she worked in Dr. Fenglian Xu’s lab where she studied the neurotoxic effects of GPR183 activation in cortical neuronal cell culture. In addition, she worked with Dr. Jill Waring’s Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience of Aging lab where she collected EEG data from human participants to determine the interaction between aging and emotional processing. In the Cohen lab, Julia is studying how tau knockdown is neuroprotective and how we can leverage this for Alzheimer’s disease therapies. Outside of the lab, Julia enjoys exploring the outdoors, playing pickleball with friends, and trying new foods.