Dr. Bottenfield is the Senior Academic Program Manager for the Oral Health Sciences (OHS) master's program at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from Eastern Washington University, followed by her M.S. in Forensic Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Anatomy and Neurobiology from Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Her doctoral research evaluated Glial Growth Factor 2 as a treatment in a monkey model of cortical injury under the mentorship of Dr. Tara Moore. Following her successful defense, Dr. Bottenfield continued her research as a postdoctoral associate in the Laboratory of Interventions for Cortical Injury and Cognitive Decline and the Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology. As a postdoc, Dr. Bottenfield continued a portion of her doctoral research focused on the optimization and use of biorthogonal molecules and Click Chemistry to label and quantify newly synthesized myelin in the rhesus monkey brain, which offers a novel new method to assess age-related changes in myelination and remyelination following brain injury. She also investigated task-related activation patterns in rhesus monkey models of cortical injury and aging using the expression of the immediate early gene, c-Fos. In addition, Dr. Bottenfield learned electrophysiology methods and contributed to analyses of injury-related pathology of pyramidal neurons in collaboration with the Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Ultrastructure.