Nora Wolcott holds a PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from UC Santa Barbara, where she was advised by Dr. Michael Goard. Her dissertation work centers on interrogating how hormone cycles drive changes in spatial representations in the hippocampus using two-photon microscopy.

She received a B.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology and a B.A. in Music Performance from George Washington University, where she first became interested in the genetic blueprint through her work in butterfly development with Dr. Arnaud Martin. Her interests expanded into neuroscience when Nora joined Russel Snell's lab at the University of Auckland, where she conducted Huntington's disease research using a sheep model. Before pursuing a PhD, she worked under Dr. Michael Krashes at the NIH NIDDK, where she investigated the neural circuits underlying feeding behavior.

In her current role as a postdoctoral research fellow for the Datta Lab at Harvard Medical School, Nora is pursuing research at the intersection of systems neuroscience and molecular biology. Ultimately, she hopes to further our understanding of how steroid hormones shape the structural and functional architecture of the brain, and take steps towards making neuroscience accessible for and applicable to all.