Michelle Tong is presently an assistant professor of neurobiology at Macalester College (St Paul, MN).
My research is concerned with the molecular mechanisms
underlying learning and memory.
In particular, I am interested in the formation of memories of varying durations. My work is concerned with unfolding the timeline of molecular events which occurs as an organism learns about their sensory environment and how the coordinated sequence of molecular events governs how information is represented and stored. I use odor learning by the olfactory system to study the molecular and structural changes that mediate memory formation and persistence. At present, my work focuses, specifically, on molecular processes involved in long-term memory persistence of incremental, reward-based learning.
