I joined the Carvelli lab following my postdoctoral research on dopaminergic neurotoxicity of methylmercury in Dr. Michael Aschner lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In the Carvelli lab, I am studying the effects caused by long-term exposure to the psychostimulants, such as amphetamine. I use C. elegans model and in vitro cell cultures to identify the epigenetic mechanisms implicated in the long-term effects caused by amphetamine in the dopaminergic neurons.