Dr. Anne Simon

Biography

Anne Simon is a Behavioural Geneticist and the lead of Simon Lab at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. Her research focuses on the genetic basis of social behavior using Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit fly. Simon Lab characterizes the neuro-anatomical circuits that underlie observed phenotypic changes in social behavior and explores the effects of stress and aging on the sociability of flies. Anne obtained her Ph.D. in 1998 in Paris, France, working in the laboratory of Thomas Préat, a renowned specialist in the field of learning and memory in Drosophila. Following her doctoral studies, she pursued post-doctoral training in the field of fly behavior at the laboratory of Seymour Benzer, who is known as the father of behavioural genetics.

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