Devyn Cotter, PhD

Devyn received her Bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience Psychology/Biology from Saint Mary’s College of California, her Master’s degree in Neuroscience and Translational Medicine from Queen Mary, University of London, and her PhD in Neuroscience from University of Southern California. She has an interest in brain health across the lifespan, having worked in both aging/neurodegeneration and neurodevelopmental fields. Her current research interests include employing multivariate modeling techniques to understand nuanced relationships between biomarkers of inflammation and multimodal neuroimaging during gestation, infancy, and early childhood. Her overall goal is to characterize inflammatory mechanisms involved in how maternal stress impacts the infant brain.