Zachary Pennington, PhD
Zachary Pennington, PhD, is an instructor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He completed his bachelor's degree in psychology at UCLA, followed by a PhD in behavioral neuroscience at UCLA under the supervision of Michael Fanselow. For his postdoctoral fellowship, he joined the laboratory of Denise Cai, where he has developed and utilized a range of open-source imaging technologies to understand how stress alters neural circuits. His research focus is on understanding how stress results in lasting alterations in neural circuits, predisposing individuals to mental health conditions.
