Casey Lardner is a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, where she studies stress & resilience in wild NYC rats. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2020, and her B.S. in Biology from The College of William and Mary in 2015. During graduate school, she co-directed Mount Sinai’s neuroscience outreach organization, MiNDS, and hosted a neuroscience storytelling show called “Studying the Brain.” Casey is originally from Virginia, and she loves running, music, and her cat, Kermit.