Erin Landry (Economo Lab) received her BS in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in 2018. She became involved with neurophotonics during her rotation in John White’s lab, during which she watched her mentor perform in vivo two-photon calcium imaging in the hippocampus before starting her training in whole-cell electrophysiology in acute hippocampal slices. Erin went on to join the Economo lab, where she now performs extracellular electrophysiological recordings in the motor cortex and the brainstem. Her work aims to understand the relationship between regions of the motor cortex and the intermediate reticular nucleus of the brainstem using optogenetic manipulation of individual neural populations. Erin is in the Biomedical Engineering department, and she expects to graduate in 2023.