Ann Clemens

The University of Edinburgh

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Bluesky : @annmclemens.bsky.social / @kinshiplab.bsky.social

Title

Neurobiology of Kinship Behaviour

Biosketch

Dr. Ann Clemens pursued her baccalaureate studies at the University of Texas at Austin and postbaccalaureate research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. She returned to Austin to pursue her PhD in the laboratory of Dr Daniel Johnston, where she examined intrinsic plasticity in neurons of the hippocampus. Upon completion of her PhD, Ann moved to Berlin, Germany where she performed a postdoc in the lab of Michael Brecht. Her postdoctoral research focused on uncovering the cellular mechanisms of social-sensory processing from a structure-function perspective. Since 2016, Ann has co-led the Somatosensory/ Rat module of the Neural Systems and Behaviour Course and was a pandemic Grass Fellow in 2020 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Ann is now principal investigator of the Kinship Lab at the University of Edinburgh, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain. The research of Kinship Lab aims to understand the neurobiology and development of natural social behavior.