Assistant Professor of Psychology and Biology, Smith College
2008, Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of California Berkeley
1997, BA, Biology, Williams College
Research Interests
We study group-living rodents to learn about pathways supporting affiliative social behavior between peers. A second focus is the study of mechanisms (epigenetic and otherwise) by which experience changes the brain and behavior
Major research areas include:
Neural substrates of non-sexual affiliative behavior
Gene-environment interactions and brain development
Neuropeptides and sociality
Fetal programming by gestational daylength