Carolyn (Lindy) McBride is an assistant professor who holds a joint position with the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University.[1] She works on understanding the genetic and neural basis for behavioral evolution through the study of mosquitoes.[2] [3] [4] She has received several early investor awards for her work on genetics, most notably the Rosalind Franklin Young Investor Award in 2016,[5] the Pew Scholars Award in 2015,[6] and the Searle Scholars award in 2016.[7]
McBride received her B.A. in Biology from Williams College in 1998 and her Ph.D. in Population Biology from the University of California, Davis in 2008.[8]