Based in Brazil, Fernanda Ferreira is a science writer who covers a range of STEM (and occasionally non-STEM) topics, from textile conservation to vaccine stockpiles.
In her psychology classes at Lewis & Clark College, Krissy Lyon often found herself asking how things in the brain worked. “You’re told, ‘the prefrontal lobe controls executive functions,’ but I wanted to know how,” Lyon explains. Though she discovered answers to many of her questions, others were left unresolved. As a PhD candidate in neuroscience in the Division of Medical Sciences, Lyon now works to find answers to her questions about serotonin-producing neurons.
