Colin received his B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As an undergraduate research assistant in Dr. Rebecca Spencer’s Somneuro Lab, he studied human sleep-dependent memory consolidation through fMRI and EEG studies across different age populations, while also conducting large-scale survey data analysis.
Colin subsequently worked as a research assistant at the United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, assisting with studies of soldier cognitive fatigue, predictive facial and speech tracking, and neuromodulation. In September 2022 Colin joined the Tsai Lab, where he develops human iPSC-derived CNS cell types and 3D biomimetic co-culture models to investigate molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, including APOE- and ABCA7-linked mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease.