Zeena Ammar graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. During her time there, she took part in the Co-op program working in the Research and Development department at Bard Medical. Her undergraduate research involved building a quantitative database for a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease and extracting data on the relationship between amyloid-beta levels and cognitive task performance. During her final year at Georgia Tech she worked with the Grady Trauma Project and helped in collecting psychophysiological data to measure fear response in pregnant women across their pregnancy. As a graduate student, Zeena worked in the neuroscience program at Emory University working with Dr. Sarah Shultz at the Marcus Autism Center.
Aiden Ford graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2017 with a B.S. in Physiology & Neurobiology and Neurodevelopment & Health, and minors in Anthropology and Neuroscience. Her undergraduate thesis examined the behavioral and neurostructural phenotype of the TS2-neo mouse model of Timothy Syndrome mediated-autism spectrum disorder. Post-graduation, Aiden accepted the Donald J. Cohen Fellowship in Developmental Social Neuroscience and moved to Atlanta to study patterns of social visual engagement from infancy to toddlerhood with Drs. Ami Klin, Warren Jones, and Sarah Shultz. She continues this line of research now as a graduate student with Dr. Sarah Shultz in the neuroscience program at Emory University and specifically investigates the mechanisms by which dyadic social experience contributes to infant neurobehavioral development.