Cristin GavinCristin Gavin received her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, while training remotely at The Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida. Her research interests have focused on understanding the synaptic mechanisms tat mediate structural and functional changes during experience-dependent plasticity, and how these processes can contribute to cognition, as well as specific behaviors such as learning and memory. After completion of her doctoral training, Dr. Gavin returned to UAB for a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. J. David Sweatt, where she focused on understanding the synaptic mechanisms leading to neuronal dysfunction in an animal model of Pitt Hopkins Syndrome (PTHS). Dr. Gavin is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Co-director of the undergraduate neuroscience program at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. Read More Read Less