Maayan Krispil-Alon, Ph.D

Maayan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Neuroscience Department, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is interested in mechanisms that are involved in the formation of traumatic memories in the brain, and how they affect emotion and behavior. Dr. krispil- Alon holds a Ph.D. from the Neurobiology Department, at the University of Haifa, under the supervision of Prof. Gal Richter-Levin. Her Ph.D. study focused on sex-specific roles of hippocampal microRNAs in stress vulnerability and resilience. In her current study Maayan is seeking to understand Hippocampal subregions’ connectivity with the Retrosplenial Cortex in contextual memory formation. Maayan lives with her husband in the Bronx and enjoys exploring the beautiful nature surrounding New-York City.