Ugnė Žiaušytė is a postbaccalaureate IRTA in the OCD. She began working in July 2020 after completing her B.S. in Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. As an undergraduate, she first researched the proteomics of Wolbachia infection in Drosophila melanogaster. She later screened a novel small molecule for its application in preventing the progression of alcoholic liver fibrosis. Her final undergraduate project was using MATLAB scripts to analyze grooming data in mice in order to identify the involvement of the basal ganglia in developing OCD-like pathology, with a particular focus on the external Globus pallidus. She hopes to attend graduate school to obtain an M.D., Ph.D. in Epidemiology to study the etiology of mental and brain disorders, with particular interests in the intersection of culture, psychology, and biology.