Dr. Antonio Aubry is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Scott Russo at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He received his BA in psychology from The City University of New York (CUNY): Brooklyn College and his PhD in behavioral neuroscience from the CUNY Graduate Center. He is broadly interested in how the nervous system enables the execution of behaviors during social interactions. To address these questions, he uses a variety of techniques including whole-brain imaging, detailed behavioral phenotyping, fiber photometry, opto- and chemo-genetics as well as computational analyses. For the duration of this reward, Dr. Aubry will be conducting experiments to determine if pallidal inputs to the cortical amygdala affects the motivation to engage in aggressive social behavior. He will also be determining if the cortical amygdala mediates state-dependent responses to social olfactory stimuli. The results from these experiments will increase the field’s understanding of how non-sensory variables affect what are traditionally known as sensory regions.