Kara Fulton is a neuroscientist and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. She holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brown University and a bachelors degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests include neuroethology, sensory neuroscience, and correlative electron microscopy.

She is broadly interested in how animals use olfaction to explore their environments and learn through social interactions. Her PhD research contributed to the development of cost-effective methods for correlative electron microscopy of large volumes. She used these techniques to generate a dense connectomic reconstruction of mouse olfactory bulb interneurons and analyze how structural wiring underlies olfactory computations. Her postdoctoral research combines behavior, neural recordings and histology to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the formation of food preferences.

She enjoys working with motivated students who are interested in pursuing a career in neuroscience. She is an active member of the volume electron microscopy (vEM) community and association for chemoreception sciences (AChemS).