Jared Watters is a doctoral student at SUNY Upstate Medical University, studying neuroscience. He received his Bachelor of Science in neuroscience from Central Michigan University in 2014. He worked with Dr. Yunlei Yang during a lab rotation in 2015, where he studied how caffeine affected food-intake and anxiety. He is currently working with Dr. William Brunken to examine how the extracellular matrix protein known as laminin affects the development of vasculature in the retina.