Dr. Gabriela Manzano Nieves is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Conor Liston at Weill Cornell Medicine. She received her BS in biology with a concentration in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Puerto Rico, and a master’s in public affairs and PhD in neuroscience from Brown University. As an undergraduate, Dr. Manzano worked in the lab of Dr. Gregory Quirk studying the neurocircuitry of fear extinction learning. During her graduate work, in the lab of Dr. Kevin Bath, Dr. Manzano focused on understanding how early life stress impacts neuronal development of fear circuits. Dr. Manzano’s doctoral work was supported by the National Science Foundation-Graduate Research Fellowships Program and the NIH Blueprint F99/K00 awards. Her postdoctoral work in the Liston lab, supported by the NIH Blueprint F99/K00 award, has focused on creating behavioral equipment to test how reward behaviors change in adolescence and adulthood, and implementing multiple calcium imaging techniques to record neuronal activity in the awake behaving pre-adolescent and adolescent mice. For her K99/R00 BRAIN Initiative project, she uses a combination of molecular, systems, and computational techniques to examine how the adolescent prefrontal cortex integrates activity to produce increased reward seeking behavior during adolescence.