Melissa T Manners is an Assistant Professor at Rowan University. She received a BA in Biology, a Minor in Psychology at Rutgers University in 2007, and a PhD in Pharmacology and Physiology at the Drexel University College of Medicine in 2016. She served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania from 2016 to 2019 and as an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia from 2019 to 2023. Her research interests include molecular mechanisms underlying the behavioral effects of chronic stress, how gene expression and molecular mechanisms are affected by disease state and drug treatment, bioinformatics, regulatory factors in gene expression, and neuroscience.