Autumn Hudock

Autumn Hudock received her B.A. in Anthropology at UNC Charlotte. She then completed her M.A. with a focus on human evolution and osteology. She is currently working with Dr. Carol Marchetto, studying how stem cell models can help researchers understand and treat neurodegenerative disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Other areas of interest include using cerebral organoids to model hominin and primate brains for the purpose of comparison for anatomically modern human brains, as well as the ethical considerations of using iPSC and hESCs in anthropological and neurological research.