Dr. Rebecca Knickmeyer
Rebecca Knickmeyer is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development at Michigan State University and Associate Director of the MSU Institute for Quantitative Health Sciences and Engineering. She received her PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge (U.K.) in 2005 and completed her postdoctoral training in the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The goal of Dr. Knickmeyer’s lab is to identify genes and molecular pathways associated with altered brain development in infancy and early childhood through the integration of pediatric neuroimaging with cutting-edge techniques in genomics, metagenomics, and analytical chemistry. She has a particular interest in mechanisms underlying sexual differentiation of the brain and the microbiome-gut-brain axis. She is the author of over 90 scientific publications including manuscripts in high impact journals such as Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, PLOS Biology, and Biological Psychiatry. She is founder and director of ORIGINs (the Organization for Imaging Genomics in Infancy), a working group of the ENIGMA Consortium (Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis), serves on the editorial board of Molecular Autism, and belongs to numerous professional organizations including the Society for Neuroscience, the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics, and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
