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Frances Champagne is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and serves as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Queen’s University in Canada and pursued her Master's in Psychiatry at McGill University, where she also earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience. Her doctoral research focused on the role of mother-infant interactions in shaping brain development. In 2004, she received a fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for postdoctoral research at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, specializing in the influence of imprinted genes on social behavior development. From 2006 to 2017, she was on the faculty of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University, where she established a research program examining the epigenetic influence of early life experiences. Her research interests include gene-environment interplay, developmental trajectories, epigenetic inheritance, and social neuroscience, with a focus on how these factors shape neural and behavioral outcomes.
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