Kylie McPherson, B.A.

Research Interests

Kylie was a post-baccalaureate fellow in Hope Lab from 2014 to 2015. She studied the molecular alterations that occur in context-specific methamphetamine reinstatement, functional alterations in context-specific cocaine sensitization, and self-administration and extinction of food seeking. As of 2018, Kylie is a neuroscience graduate student at the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health & Science University in Dr. S. Ingrams Lab using electrophysiology techniques to understand cellular and circuit changes that occur in response to inflammatory pain within the descending pain modulatory pathway.