Dr. Melissa Warden completed her postdoctoral work at Stanford in 2013 in Bioengineering. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT in 2006 and her A.B. in Molecular Biology from Princeton in 1996.
Awards & Honors
Miriam M. Salpeter Fellow 2013 Cornell University
NIH Director's New Innovator Award 2015 National Institutes of Health
Courses Taught
BIOG 4990: Independent Undergraduate Research in Biology
A tiny but important area in the middle of the brain acts as a switch that determines when an animal is willing to work for a reward and when it stops working, according to a new study.