#  Kayla Kruger 

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**Thesis advisor:** Stephen Liberles  
  
**Rotation labs:** Stephen Liberles, Lauren Orefice, Meenakshi Rao  
  
**For me, home is:** Philadelphia, PA

**Undergraduate degree(s):** University of Pennsylvania, Neuroscience & Criminology

**Research experience before PiN**: Undergraduate and post-bac research in Nick Betley’s lab studying how the brain prioritizes competing needs, maladaptive feeding behavior, and the cerebellar feeding circuit

**Current research interests:** gut-brain signaling, neurobiological underpinnings of eating disorders

**Interests outside lab:** Running, being in nature, spending time with my dog & two kittens



 

 

 





 

 

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