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Jenn Ingemi is an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Behavioral Neuroscience Program at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on understanding how the nervous system coordinates complex behaviors, particularly through the study of neural circuits in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. She investigates the role of neurotransmitters like tyramine in modulating motor programs essential for escape behaviors.
Dr. Ingemi's work identified tyramine as a key neurotransmitter and elucidated the neural circuitry underlying the C. elegans escape response. Her findings reveal how synaptic activity and ion channels precisely regulate neural circuits to execute coordinated behaviors. She holds a position in the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience and is affiliated with Northeastern's Nightingale Hall facilities.
Her research emphasizes the interplay between sensory input and motor output, challenging assumptions about how connectomes relate to behavioral outcomes. While no specific awards or publications are listed here, her contributions bridge molecular mechanisms and behavioral outcomes in model organisms.
