Nora Wolcott, Ph.D. recently earned her Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at UC Santa Barbara, where she was advised by Dr. Michael Goard. Her doctoral research employed in vivo two-photon microscopy to investigate how endogenous hormone cycles drive changes in spatial representations and neuronal morphology in the hippocampus.

She is currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Datta Lab at Harvard Medical School, where she is investigating the neural basis of spontaneous behavior.

Before graduate school, Nora worked with Dr. Michael Krashes at the NIH NIDDK, investigating the neural circuitry of feeding behavior. She also conducted Huntington's disease research using a sheep model in Dr. Russell Snell's lab at the University of Auckland. Nora earned her B.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from George Washington University, where she studied butterfly developmental genetics with Dr. Arnaud Martin.

Nora pursues research at the intersection of systems neuroscience and molecular biology. She aims to advance our understanding of how steroid hormones shape the structural and functional architecture of the brain, and to help make neuroscience more inclusive, relevant, and responsive to the unique neurophysiological needs of women and underrepresented individuals.