Hi! I’m Dr. Travis Goode (“Good”)!

I (he/him) am a Research Fellow in Medicine (Postdoctoral Fellow) working in the Hippocampal Memory and Adult Neurogenesis Lab of Dr. Amar Sahay. We are members of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and the BROAD Institute of Harvard and MIT. You can learn more about my research here!

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I am a first-generation college graduate and scientist, with strong research interests and expertise in the neurobiology of affective learning and memory. I grew up in East Tennessee—my family, like many others, was deeply impacted by addiction. I have experienced the immense burden that mental illness can place on a family, and I am now committed to promoting and improving therapeutic treatments for psychiatric disease.

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I have a decade+ of experience in preclinical circuit and behavioral neuroscience research. I received my Bachelor’s (BA) in Psychology (Biology Minor) from the University of Tennessee in 2011, where I worked in the lab of Dr. Matthew A. Cooper. In 2018, I completed my Ph.D. in Neuroscience in the lab of Dr. Stephen Maren at Texas A&M University. I am grateful to have been supported by a number of prestigious awards throughout my career, including a predoctoral F31 NRSA, a Young Investigator Grant from BBRF, and (for my current project) a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute of Mental Health.

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Moving forward, I aim to establish a fun, inclusive, and high-caliber basic neuroscience laboratory that studies the neurobiological bases of learning, memory, and motivation. I am committed to fostering a responsible, healthy, and exciting research environment, with an emphasis on supporting and growing next-gen researchers, and in doing all I can to help increase our knowledge about the brain and translating these preclinical insights for therapeutics outcomes.

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Outside of the lab, you can find me playing guitar and video games, and running/working out!