Kelsea Gildawie
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Kelsea Gildawie
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Behavioral neuroscientist 🧠🔬 | Assistant Professor at Simmons University | Former Tufts IRACDA Scholar | #FirstGen | she/her | 🎮🎸☕️
Two first-author manuscripts submitted this week from my postdoc research and my student was accepted to give a data blitz on her work in my lab! 🎉🎉🎉
August 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Extraordinarily proud of the very first members of the Gildawie Lab (Abby Rish & Sandra Bartlett) for presenting their projects at the Simmons STEM Colloquium!

I’m so excited to keep working with them this summer and continue growing this amazing team!
April 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A whole semester of teaching, admin work, faculty meetings, etc. and now I’m SO ready to get my lab ready for some research!!
December 18, 2024 at 2:25 PM
The face of a very tired but happy #newprof who just finished her last day of teaching for her first semester as an assistant professor!! 😮‍💨

Still have finals next week, but the end is in sight!

Now it’s time to start reading applications for my first undergraduate researchers 🥲
December 12, 2024 at 10:15 PM
New work from my postdoc is now published!! 🎉

We assessed developmental changes in growth and feeding-related gene expression following gestational exposure to medications for opioid exposure (methadone and buprenorphine) in rats 🐁🧠

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
December 9, 2024 at 2:15 PM
MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED!! 🎉

Excited to share another piece of my postdoc work! Stay tuned 😊
November 21, 2024 at 1:58 AM
👋🏻 Hi, it’s been a while! A couple things have changed:

This semester I started my dream job as an Assistant Professor at my alma mater, Simmons University! I’m so grateful to teach and work with these amazing students every day!

Please enjoy photographic evidence of my lifelong academic dream 👇🏻
November 19, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Reposted by Kelsea Gildawie
November 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Some RNAscope in the arcuate nucleus for #FluorescenceFriday ✨🔬
September 29, 2023 at 4:43 PM
Just taught my first class of the semester and one of my students said the vibes were great so I’ve clearly done my job 😂🥹
September 8, 2023 at 12:53 AM
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August 4, 2023 at 5:14 PM
ALSO… I submitted my first, first-author postdoc paper yesterday and I’m PUMPED 🎉🎉🎉
August 5, 2023 at 2:39 PM
👋🏻 Quick intro:

I’m Kelsea & I’m a postdoc at Tufts studying the developmental impacts of early life adversity and prenatal opioid exposure in rats 🐁💉💊

I also teach biopsych at Simmons (my alma mater ❤️) and hope to get a tenure-track position at a PUI in the coming years 🤞🏻

& I love microscopes! 🔬
August 5, 2023 at 2:36 PM