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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
Allyson J. Bennett, PhD, is a developmental psychobiologist on the faculty of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison where she teaches courses in experimental psychology, research methods, and animal cognition. Comparative studies by Dr. Bennett and her colleagues have contributed new insights into how interplay between genes and environments affects neurobehavioral development across the lifespan. She is the author of numerous publications on behavior, physiology, genetics, and neurobiology in prosimians, Old World monkeys, and chimpanzees. She also studies how specific features of the environment affect laboratory animals, providing empirical evidence to help inform animal model development and evolving standards for animal welfare, particularly those that also affect scientific outcomes. She is the Director of the Harlow Center for Biological Psychology at UW-Madison. Dr. Bennett has served on NIH scientific grant review panels, is past associate editor for Developmental Psychobiology, and a reviewer for a number of other scientific journals. She has a long-standing commitment to public education, dialogue, and engagement about the value and conduct of animal research. She is a senior editor of Speaking of Research, where she has blogged about animal research over the past eight years. Dr. Bennett is former chair of the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Animal Research Ethics, former president of the Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology, APA Division 6, and a member of the PRIM&R Board of Directors.
Monday, December 12, 2022
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET