{"id":669,"date":"2020-04-30T19:58:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T19:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/?page_id=669"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:24:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:24:47","slug":"julia-badyna","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/people\/julia-badyna\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Badyna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-666 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/04\/JB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/04\/JB.jpg 717w, https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/04\/JB-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>Julia is a PhD candidate in the biological sciences department at Carnegie Mellon, mentored by Dr. Eric Yttri. She studies how decision-making strategies change in response to increases in environmental uncertainty and the role of the striatum in this process.\u00a0 She utilizes mice trained on a two-armed bandit Y-maze task and optogenetic manipulations to answer her research questions.<\/p>\n<p>Julia graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017 with a B.S in neuroscience as well as minors in Chemistry and French.\u00a0 She enjoys spending her free time exploring new restaurants around Pittsburgh and cheering on the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Penguins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia is a PhD candidate in the biological sciences department at Carnegie Mellon, mentored by Dr. Eric Yttri. She studies how decision-making strategies change in response to increases in environmental uncertainty and the role of the striatum in this process.\u00a0 She utilizes mice trained on <span class=\"more-button\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/people\/julia-badyna\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-669","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ParWiy-aN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/669\/revisions\/924"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.bio.cmu.edu\/yttri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}