Matt Boisvert received his PhD in Neuroscience in 2018, working in the lab of Nicola Allen. Through his graduate work, he demonstrated that astrocytes adopt an injury-like profile in the aging brain through a combination of genetic profiling and microscopy. He continued to address how universal these glial inflammatory signals are, and their impact on physiology, with a postdoctoral fellowship studying fruit fly glia at Oregon Health and Science University. Matt leverages a broad background in molecular biology for his current work in the drug discovery space, validating and demonstrating the capabilities of new instrumentation for Araceli Biosciences.