Eskarleth (Skar) Lopez, BS BA

Eskarleth Lopez is a first year Neuroscience PhD rotation student in the Milstein Lab. She is from Sacramento, California and did her undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (B.S.) and Psychology (B.A.) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She found her passion for research when she joined the NIH-funded MARC program and studied host factors associated with astrovirus infection in the Cortez Lab. She decided to explore a different field and joined NIH- PREP at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Here she joined the Marshall Lab where she studied how the lack of mechanical interoception influenced anxiety-like behaviors. With a deepened interest in neuroscience, she applied and joined the Neuroscience PhD program at Rutgers University where she hopes to study different aspects of neuropsychiatric illnesses with Dr. Milstein.