Taylor Doolittle is the Duque-Wilckens Lab Manager and Research Assistant. She received her bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the University of Chicago, and has multiple years of lab experience as well as some experience working with human patients. Her goal in life is to discover new mechanisms behind psychiatric illness, particularly anxiety disorders such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), that would eventually lead to better, longer-lasting treatments than is currently available. 

    Taylor began her neuroscience research experience while she was still a senior in high school, studying the regenerative effects of sex hormones on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) at an Emory University lab. While attending college at UChicago, she worked in the Mason Lab looking at prosocial behavior and empathy in rodents, while also assisting with data collection for an Autism mouse model. Throughout her high school and college years, Taylor volunteered at the Atlanta VA Hospital helping veterans with PTSD and TBI, and was able to photograph a brain surgery up close. After getting her degree, she worked as a nurse assistant at a psychiatric hospital. She is now happy to be back in the academic research world and is excited to be a part of the Wolfpack.

    In her free time, Taylor likes to explore the city and enjoys being in nature. She has multiple artistic hobbies from photography to a recent interest in interior design. Overall, she can’t stop thinking about neuroscience and will talk about it to whoever is willing to listen.