Lisa received her BS in Biomedical Science from Auburn University in 2009 and worked as a microbiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 - 2013. In 2014, she became a laboratory researcher at FSU's College of Medicine in several neuroscience labs, and she joined the Williams Laboratory in 2018. Lisa's many skills include but are not limited to a variety of molecular biology techniques, immunohistochemistry, transgenic mouse colony management, rodent brain surgery, and rodent behavior analysis.