Becca Betty

Degrees

MA English, Millersville University 
BA English, Penn State Altoona
BS Biology, Penn State Altoona

Specialization

Science Writing 
Critical Disability Studies

Interests

Science Fiction 
Dystopian Studies
Trans* and Disabled Futures
Speculative Biology 

Passions and Distractions

Games (board, card, video)
Dogs and animals in general
Making bad art

Sample Publications

Manjila, S. B., Son, S., Parmaksiz, D., Kline, H., Betty, R., Wu, Y., Pi, H.-J., Shin, D., Liwang, J. K., Kronman, F. N., Bjerke, I. E., McGovern, K., Silverman, J., Paul, A., & Kim, Y. (2025). Brain-wide connectivity and novelty response of the dorsal endopiriform nucleus in mice. Cell Reports, 44(7). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115827

Kronman, F. N., Liwang, J. K., Betty, R., Vanselow, D. J., Wu, Y-T., Tustison, N. J., Bhandiwad, A., Manjila, S. B., Minteer, J. A., Shin, D., Lee, C. H., Patil, R., Duda, J. T., Xue, J., Lin, Y., Cheng, K. C., Puelles, L., Gee, J. C., Zhang, J., & Kim, Y. (2024). Developmental mouse brain common coordinate framework. Nature Communications, 15(1), 9072. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53254-w

Betty, Becca. (2024) Cordyceps, COVID-19, and Care: Investigating Disabled Futures in HBO’s The Last of Us. Made in Millersville Journal. https://www.mimjournal.com/becca-betty

Manjila, S., Betty, R., Kim, Y. (2022) Missing pieces in decoding the brain oxytocin puzzle: Functional insights from mouse brain wiring diagrams. Frontiers in Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.1044736