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Dr. Anne Simon
Behavioural Geneticist
Funding Sources
NSERC Discovery Grant with Early Career Research Award
Research Award (2015-2022)
Genetics of social space in Drosophila melanogaster
Western Strategic Support for NSERC Success
Research Award (2014-2015)
Professional Staff Congress- City University of New York (PSC-CUNY)
Research Award (2009-2010)
Study of Aggregation, a Basic Adaptive Social Behaviour in Drosophila
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD)
Young Investigator Award (2007-2009)
Genetics of Aggregation, a Basic Adaptive Social Behavior in Drosophila
UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART)
Pilot Funds from a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant (2005-2006)
Recognition of social contact in Drosophila
UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology
Training Support (2005-2006)
Investigation of the role of monoamine and steroid pathways in modulation of behavior, the stress response and the immune response in Drosophila.
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Tennenbaum Family Interdisciplinary Center (July 2003)
Study of Brain basis of the creative process, using Williams’ syndrome as a model
The John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation
Postdoctoral fellowship (1999-2001)
Involvement of steroid hormonal pauses of aging adults in brain degeneration
French Foundation for Medical Research
Doctoral Research Fellowship (1998)
Study of the role of the Drosophila gene linotte, incoding a tyrosine receptor kinase homologous to the human gene RYK, in the central brain development
French Minister of Higher Education and Research
Doctoral Research Fellowship (1994-1997)
Study of a gene involved in memory and development of the brain in Drosophila melanogaster: the gene linotte
Western Interdisciplinary Development Initiatives (IDI) Program
Research Award (2021)
Western Internal Science
Research Award (2022)
NSERC Discovery Grant with Early Career Research Award
Research Award (2022-2027)
Genetics of social space in Drosophila melanogaster
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