Kaitlyn received her bachelors of arts in biology with a concentration in neuroscience from Kalamazoo College in 2018. She found her passion for Neurodegenerative diseases and Immunology while working on her masters in biochemistry and molecular biology at Wayne State University. She is now in the Neuroscience program at MSU and has joined Dr. Marcia Gordon’s lab. Kaitlyn currently works on characterizing the effects of cellular senescent microglia in models of Alzheimer Disease.