Jenelle Wallace is a graduate student in the Molecules, Cells, and Organisms program (MCO) at Harvard. She grew up in Tucson, Arizona, with her first exposure to neuroscience at the University of Arizona in the lab of Dr. Carol Barnes. She earned a B.S. from Stanford University in 2013 and completed an honors thesis in the lab of Dr. Karl Deisseroth. She joined the Stevens lab in 2014 and is interested in neural-immune interactions in adult plasticity. Jenelle Successfully  defended her thesis in April 2020.