Born and raised in New Jersey, Audrey graduated from Yale in 2017 with a degree in psychology. She became interested in mental health advocacy early in college and sought to understand both the social determinants and neurobiological underpinnings of psychopathology through research. Audrey completed her undergraduate senior thesis with Avram Holmes on how depressive symptomatology affects error processing and reward-seeking behavior. After graduation, she moved on to the NIH where she studied epigenetic changes in alcohol use disorder with Falk Lohoff. For her thesis work in Ted's lab, Audrey characterized hierarchical axes of brain development. In her first project, she showed that functional connectivity develops along the sensorimotor-association (S-A) axis using 4 large-scale neuroimaging datasets (Luo et al., 2024, Nature Communications). For her second paper (Luo et al., in revision at Nature Communications), she investigated development along white matter tracts to identify a previously overlooked developmental axis: a deep-to-superficial axis. Interestingly, the ends of tracts proximal to cortex develop along the S-A axis. During her time in the lab, she has won several travel awards including those from Society of Biological Psychiatry and Flux Congress. Audrey is a newly minted PhD and is back in the wards to complete her MD/PhD training. She is continuing to work in the lab during medical school and is constantly finding excuses to visit PennLINC.