Reward Motivation and Decision-Making

Tina completed her MS in biology, with a concentration in neurobiology, at Rutgers-Camden in 2020 in the lab of Dr. William Saidel. Her MS thesis work explored circuitry involved in spatial memory utilizing a teleost model. In 2026, Tina received her PhD in Neuroscience from Drexel University College of Medicine in the lab of Dr. Jacqueline Barker. Her doctoral work examined the effects of chronic, low-dose ethanol exposure on reward motivation, decision-making, glutamate receptor subunit expression, and neural correlates which may contribute to aberrant reward seeking.