Bio
Marco Alarcon earned his bachelor’s degree in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior at University of California, Davis. As an undergraduate, he conducted research in Dr. Karen Zito’s lab, where he performed mutagenesis experiments on the protein PSD-95 to investigate its role as a regulator of dendritic spine plasticity. Now a PREP@UCD scholar in Dr. Christina Kim’s lab, he will investigate the effects of psychedelics on the activity of neurons in the nucleus accumbens of mice, with the goal of paving the way for the development of new treatments for certain brain disorders. He hopes to eventually earn his PhD in neuroscience.