Krystle received her BA and MA from Texas State University and her PhD from Colorado State University in Cell & Molecular Biology.  Her dissertation focused on the dense blood vessel network within the Paraventricular Nucleus of the Hypothalamus.  Specifically, how it develops and is impacted by fetal exposure to excess glucocorticoids.  She currently works in the lab of Dr. Donald DeFranco in the Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology.  Her research focuses on how excess glucocorticoids impact gene expression in male and female embryonic hypothalamic neural progenitor stem cells.  Her overall goals are to determine how changes during development, primarily exposure to excess glucocorticoids, results in physiological and psychological consequences in adulthood in a sex-dependent manner.