Dr. Ames Sutton Hickey (she/her)

Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience (2023)
Temple University (Philadelphia, PA)

ames.sutton@temple.edu

Ames’ research interests

motivated behavior, feeding dysregulation, neural circuits, ethologically-relevant behavioral testing, open source neuroscience, diversifying science teaching and research

Education & Training

2018 - 2022, Bethesda, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Michael Krashes lab
National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK)
Click here to see some of Ames’ work from the Krashes lab.
2016 - 2018, Cambridge, MA
Postdoctoral Researcher, Kay Tye lab
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Click here to see some of Ames’ work in the Tye lab.
2010 - 2016, Ann Arbor, MI
PhD in Molecular and Integrative Physiology, labs of David Olson and Martin Myers Jr.
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Some of Ames’ PhD work has been published in the Journal of Neuroscience, PNAS, and Scientific Reports.
2006 - 2010, Bloomington, IN
B.S. in Biology, with Honors
Honors Thesis in Dr. Gregory Demas’ lab, Department of Biology

broader interests

When not in the lab, you can typically find Ames traveling with her wife and two cats, roasting coffee, raving about the magnificence of Steph Curry, cycling, hiking, or catching a local show.

Dr. Ames Sutton Hickey (she/her)

Education & Training

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

University of Michigan

Indiana University

broader interests

When not in the lab, you can typically find Ames traveling with her wife and two cats, roasting coffee, raving about the magnificence of Steph Curry, cycling, hiking, or catching a local show.