PSEDI Seminar Speaker Series presents Dr. Tamara Franklin

Pharmaceutical Sciences for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (PSEDI) presents Dr. Tamara Franklin

The effects of maternal immune activation on early development: brain and behaviour

Dr. Tamara Franklin obtained her Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Z) and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Monterotondo). She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Dalhousie University, where she has served on the Faculty of Science Equity Committee and has chaired the departmental Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee. She is also on the board for the CAN and is a recent Council Member of the Nova Scotian Institute for Science. Her team’s research focuses on describing how the brain generates appropriate social behaviours, and the neural mechanisms of social dysfunction related to diseases like autism spectrum disorder and Alzheimer’s disease.