Harvard University | 2023 - Present
Ph.D. Candidate, Neurobiology
Brigham Young University | 2017 - 2022
B.S. in Neuroscience, Minor in Mathematics
Graduate:
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2023-2026
$147,000, 1 of 2552 recipients
Undergraduate:
Neuroscience Honored Student (Valedictorian), Brigham Young University, 2022
Goldwater Scholarship, Barry M. Goldwater Foundation, 2021
$7500, 1 of 408 recipients out of 5000+ applicants
Garth L. Lee Teaching Award, BYU Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2021
Top 10% of teaching assistants in past 5 years based on student evaluations
First-Place Oral Presentation, BYU Student Research Conference, 2021
College Undergraduate Research Award, BYU College of Life Sciences, 2021
$3000, 1 of ~130 recipients
College Undergraduate Research Award, BYU College of Life Sciences, 2020
$3000, 1 of ~130 recipients
Brigham Young Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2019-2022
Full-tuition, awarded to top 5% of college
Brigham Young Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2017-2018
Half-tuition, awarded for high school academic merit
Harvard University | Aug 2023 - Present
Graduate Research Assistant, Advisor: Dr. Pascal Kaeser
University of Utah | May 2022 - May 2023
Laboratory Technician, Advisor: Dr. Peter West
Brigham Young University | May 2019 - April 2022
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Advisors: Dr. Jeffrey Edwards, Dr. Jordan Yogason
Brigham Young University | Sept 2019 - April 2021
Teaching Assistant, General & Organic Chemistry
Semesters: Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021
Everett, A.C., Graul, B.E., Ronstroem, J.W., Robinson, J.K., Watts, D.B., Espana, R.A., Siciliano, C.A., Yorgason, J.T. (2022). Effectiveness and relationship between biased and unbiased measures of dopamine release and clearance. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 13(10), 1534-1548. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00033
Winzenried E.T.,* Everett A.C.,* Saito E.R., Miller R.M., et al. (2023). Effects of a true prophylactic treatment on hippocampal and amygdalar synaptic plasticity and gene expression in a rodent chronic stress model of social defeat. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(13), 11193. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241311193
*co-first authors
Talks:
2022 Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, St. George, UT. (2022, Feb. 25). Modeling aspects of dopamine release and reuptake using fast scan cyclic voltammetry.
2021 Student Research Conference at BYU’s College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Virtual. (2021, Feb. 27). Exploration of the Michaelis-Menten kinetics of the dopamine transporter.
2021 Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, Virtual. (2021, Feb. 19). Effects of the ketogenic diet on hippocampal long-term potentiation.
2020 Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, Logan, UT. (2020, Feb. 7). Prophylactic treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder with mifepristone and propranolol in rat models.
Posters:
Everett, A.C., Valentine, N.J., Skouson, P.M., Holdaway, M., Edward, J.G. (2021, Nov. 11). Exploring the mechanism of “forgetting" with electrophysiology. College of Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Award Conference, Provo, UT.
Everett, A.C., Graul, B.E., Watts, D.B., España, R., Siciliano, C., Yorgason, J.T. (2021, Nov. 8-11). Modeling aspects of dopamine release and reuptake using fast scan cyclic voltammetry. Society for Neuroscience, Virtual.
Everett, A.C., Miller, R., Saito, E., Winzenried, E., Smith, C., Boyce, Z., Edwards, J.G. (2021, Nov. 8-11). Effects of prophylactic treatment on hippocampal and amygdalar synaptic plasticity and gene expression in a rodent model of PTSD. Society for Neuroscience, Virtual.
Everett, A.C., Tolman, B.M., Ronstroem, J.W., Wadsworth, H.A., Yorgason, J.T. (2021, March 8). Modeling the enzymatic kinetics of the dopamine transporter in the striatum. BYU's Library/Life Sciences Undergraduate Poster Competition 2021, Virtual.
Miller, R.M., Winzenried, E.T., Boyce, Z.J., Kimball, S.R., Neal, E.J., Johnson, T.J., Everett, A.C., Brantley, A.R., Edwards, J.G. (2019, Nov. 1). Prophylactic treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder with mifepristone and propranolol. Snowbird Neuroscience Symposium, Snowbird, UT.