Annaliese Beery
Associate Professor, Departments of Neuroscience, 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