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Aleksandra K. Bruchey Dr. Gonzalez-Lima lab My interest in neuroscience started when I was a student at the University of Sarajevo Dental School, and continued after I moved to the United States. I spent four years working as a research assistant at Louisiana State University Medical Center before enrolling into the graduate program for molecular neuroscience at Vanderbilt University, from which I transferred to the University of Texas at Austin. The process of moving between several laboratories enabled me to work on many different levels of brain analysis, and gave me valuable experience with numerous techniques, from single-cell electrophysiology to animal behavioral training. Currently, I am working on systems-level analysis of brain metabolic changes related to extinction learning and recall. Additionally, I am involved in a project aimed at investigating memory-improving effects of the mitochondrial respiration enhancer, methylene blue. Being a member of Dr. Gonzalez-Lima’s laboratory not only has been an invaluable learning experience, but it has also allowed me an opportunity to integrate and apply various scientific principles that I have learned over the past nine years in my pursuit of understanding how the brain works.