About Me

I am a first year PhD student at McGill University, advised by Dr. Gustavo Turecki.

I am interested in studying how genetics and epigenetics lead to long-lasting (mal)adaptive changes in our brain cells that influence human behavior in health and disease. To that end, I have developed an interest in next-generation gene sequencing technologies that can profile brain cells at a single-cell and spatial resolution. I am currently working on projects studying molecular adaptations in the postmortem brains of people with a history of childhood abuse as well as depressed suiciders.

Before my PhD, I spent 3 years working in Dr. Jinyue Liu’s lab at the Genome Institute of Singapore where I studied Parkinson’s disease in midbrain-like organoids using single spatial transcriptomics. My undergraduate degree is from Yale-NUS college in Singapore where I majored in Life Sciences and minored in Physical sciences. I grew up in Lithuania, Kaunas.