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Kathleen A. Killian is an Associate Professor of Biology at Miami University and Associate Director of the Center for Animal Behavior. She is affiliated with the Center for Neuroscience and Behavior and the Center for Animal Behavior. Her research focuses on the intersection of insect immunity, neurogenesis, and behavior, using crickets as a model organism. She investigates how immune system responses influence brain plasticity and social status, with particular attention to cold temperature stress effects on inflammation and behavior. Her lab employs techniques including behavioral assays, immune system assays, histology, immunocytochemistry, and molecular biology methods like RNAi and qPCR.
Her research interests emphasize understanding the mechanistic links between immunity and neural function, particularly in social insects. She has contributed to studies on the maturation of immune systems in crickets and how environmental stressors impact behavior and brain function. Courses taught include Neuroscience seminars, Human Physiology, Neurophysiology, and Graduate Neuroscience Seminars.
No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided text. Her work spans interdisciplinary areas of animal behavior, immunology, and neuroscience, with a focus on translational insights into organismal biology.
