Howdy! My name is Jackie, and I am a PhD student in UBC’s Graduate Program of Neuroscience. Prior to UBC, I completed my Honours Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa. My current training is focused on translational neuroscience. I am interested in understanding how cognitive/affective processes interact at the level of the brain, and how these processes go awry in various forms of psychopathology. My research employs naturalistic paradigms during functional MRI to probe these questions – with a particular focus on Functional Connectivity (FC) analyses.