Jeanne M. Wehner, Ph.D
Dr. Wehner received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Biochemistry in 1976. She received postdoctoral training at the Dight Institute for Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota studying brain second messenger systems with an emphasis on protein kinases. Her interest in neurogenetics was furthered as a visiting investigator at the Jackson Laboratories where she began using mouse models to explore the genetic regulation of neurochemical processes in the brain. In 1982, she became an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG). She currently is an IBG fellow and a Professor of Psychology as well as member of the Neuroscience program.
After joining the faculty at Colorado, Dr. Wehner became interested in merging her interest in biochemistry with functional outcomes related to behavior using the mouse. Modeling behavioral processes of relevance to human behavior and then determining the genetic regulation of these behaviors has been the major emphasis of her laboratory in recent years. She uses inbred strain recombinant inbred strains, and transgenic mouse models as well as quantitative trait loci analyses in her research.
Dr. Wehner had a Research Scientist Development Award from NIAAA from 1991-1996 and 1997-2002. She has served on numerous grant review committees and currently serves on the NIMH Board of Scientific Counselors. She is an Associate Editor for Behavioral Neuroscience and Behavior Genetics. She has directed the graduate training program at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics for many years and is the program director of a training grant from NIMH. Her teaching includes: graduate level courses in Behavior Genetics, the Molecular Basis of Behavior, and lectures on the molecular basis of learning and memory. She has taught short courses in mouse behavior for the Society for Neuroscience and has participated in The Jackson Laboratory’s short course, Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics.
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