Teaching Fellow
Gabe Villegas received his B.A. Rutgers University in 2011 and is currently completing his PhD in biochemistry at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, examining the molecular underpinnings governing the regulation of sleep and metabolism. He is a recipient of the Society of Research Scholars Fellowship and has spent the previous two years as a teaching assistant in the molecular biology and biochemistry department. Before attending graduate school, he was a research assistant in the Lewis Sigler Institute at Princeton University studying the molecular basis of drug-induced behavioral changes in the flatworm S. mediterranea.