Mackenzie Hastings

Mackenzie is a graduate of Washington State University where she studied neuroscience and psychology, received a Bachelor of Science degree, and was an active member of the WSU Honors College. She participated in nationally funded; multi-state research projects that examined the effects of Atrazine induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease, lean phenotype, and sperm epimutation pathology biomarkers. Under the department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, she ran her own research project, using the 4-core genotype, which examined the effects of Kdm5c gene mutations with varying testosterone levels on anxiety and aggression. Her other research interests include Mental Health, Cancer, Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Medical Biotechnology.