Background
Cambria received a Bachelors of Arts in Biology, with a Specialization in Neurobiology and a minor in Spanish from Boston University in 2017. After graduating, she worked as a Lab Manager/Senior Research Technician for Dr. Jeff Gavornik’s lab in the Department of Biology at Boston University. In the Gavornik Lab, she investigated plasticity in the mammalian brain, primarily focusing on how “lower level” structures such as mouse primary visual cortex are capable of predictive encoding. In this role, she led a collaboration with Dr. Lee Goldstein’s lab to investigate how these processes are effected by traumatic brain injury. In addition to this work, Cambria also worked as a Patient Care Technician in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Hematology/Oncology and conducted clinical research as a volunteer under the mentorship of Dr. Jesse Winer in Tufts Medical Center’s Neurosurgery Department.
She joined the VA CTE/PTSD Brain Bank in Fall 2022 as a Health Science Specialist where she assists in the processing of post-mortem brain tissue to research pathology and molecular biology of traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, and neurodegenerative disease.
Research Interests
Cambria is broadly interested in the progression of neurodegenerative diseases, both in clinical presentation and pathophysiology. She is more specifically interested in the mechanisms involved in neurodegenerative disorders as a result of repeated head injury at the level of individual neurons.
Selected Publications
- Jensen CM, Schecter RW, Gavornik JP (2022, Pre-print) Sex and estrous cycle affect experience-dependent plasticity in mouse primary visual cortex. bioRxiv 2022.03.05.483062
- Price BH, Jensen CM, Khoudary AA, Gavornik JP (2021, Pre-print) Expectation violations produce error signals in mouse V1. bioRxiv 2021.12.31.474652.
- Sarkar S, Martinez Reyes C, Jensen CM, Gavornik JP (2022, Pre-print) M2 receptors are required for spatiotemporal sequence learning in mouse primary visual cortex. bioRxiv 2022.02.09.479792