About Us

Erin Kinnally is a biological psychologist with expertise in the fields of primate behavior, neuroscience and epigenomics. Dr. Kinnally obtained her PhD at the University of California, Davis and was a Paul Janssen Postdoctoral Fellow in Translational Neuroscience at Columbia University. She is now an Associate Professional Researcher in the department of Psychology at UC Davis and director of the Biobehavioral Assessment program. She is also a CNPRC core scientist. Recent funding sources include NICHD, NIAID, NIMH, NIH Office of the Director, the Harry Frank Guggenheim foundation and Escher Foundation for Autism. She is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Primatology and Environmental Epigenetics.

Webpage: https://erinkinnally.ucdavis.edu/

Lesly Ceniceros graduated from UC Davis with a B.S in Human Development and has been largely interested on the impacts of early life stress. Her work has examined the effects of prenatal relocation stress across various metrics of postnatal resilience during BBA (Ceniceros et al., 2021). Recent awards include Division 6: Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology Pipeline Scholar.