The goal of my research program is to bridge our basic understanding of how our brains make and retrieve memories, with how these processes are affected with aging, to ultimately inspire and test behavioral interventions to integrate into a lifestyle to slow or prevent age-related memory loss. My strongest contributions to the field have been in the area of how physical activity affects cognitive and brain aging. We are broadening to consider movement profiles more broadly, including sedentary behavior and sleep. Although my research has focused on the older adult population, it is now apparent how important protective health behaviors during midlife are for limiting co-morbidities that increase risk for age-related cognitive decline, such as metabolic disease, obesity, and chronic inflammation. I would be interested in contributing to research about the developmental risk factors (genetic and experiential) for co-morbidities in midlife that increase odds of accelerated cognitive decline. I can contribute skills-based knowledge on behavioral assessment of physical activity with actigraphy, cognitive assessments, and structural and functional brain imaging analyses.