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Dr Will Swaney

School of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Faculty of Science

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Senior Lecturer in Epigenetics

I study animal social behaviour and its underlying neurobiology. I am particularly interested in how different environments and experiences affect social behaviour and how shifts in phenotype arise from changes in brain networks and neurochemistry. Social behaviour may change within the lifetime of an animal as a result of specific experiences, or related populations may differ as a result of natural selection due to differences in food availability, predation or parasites etc. However emerging evidence indicates that certain experiences and conditions can result in changes in behaviour that persist across generations through non-genetic mechanisms, and this field of behavioural epigenetics is one of my focus areas.

I use a multidisciplinary approach involving behavioural analysis, genetics, neuroscience and pharmacology to explore variation in social behaviour and the importance of inherited epigenetic changes in the expression of behavioural phenotypes.

https://sites.google.com/site/willswaney/

Degrees

2006, University of Cambridge, UK, PhD - Zoology
1999, University of Cambridge, UK, BA (Hons) - Zoology

Academic appointments

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, 2014 - present
Research Associate, McGill University, 2012 - 2014
Post-doctoral Researcher, Utrecht University, 2009 - 2012
Post-doctoral Researcher, Columbia University, 2006 - 2009

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