Cedric Zimmer
University of St Andrews, UK
Biography
Cédric Zimmer completed his PhD in 2010 at Strasbourg University in France. He is currently a research fellow at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience of the Univserity of St Andrews. He is mainly interested by the consequences of stress in animal models and particularly on the long-term effects of early life stress on brain, physiology and behaviour. He has published several papers in reputed journals. (Up to 100 words) Karen Spencer is currently a Lecturer within the School of Psychology and Neuroscience of the Univserity of St Andrews. Prior to this she held a BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellowship between 2007- 2014 at the Univresities of Glasgow and St Andrews. Karen is mainly interested in how early life experiences can shape long-term phenotypic traits, using an integrative approach which spans behaviour, physiology and neuroendocrinology. Karen currently leads the Mechanismsm of Behaviour research group (MoB url: https://mobgroup.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/), which consisits of two postdoctoral fellows, five PhD students and a full time Technician.