Jennifer Quinn is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the Center for Neuroscience & Behavior at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed postdoctoral training at Yale University. Dr. Quinn’s research program investigates how early life stress produces enduring changes in brain and behavior, with a particular focus on threat processing and reward-seeking behaviors. Using an integrative approach that combines circuit-level manipulations, histological techniques, and behavioral analysis in rodent models, her work aims to uncover the neural mechanisms underlying stress vulnerability and resilience. She also explores how social buffering, sex differences, and developmental timing shape stress-related outcomes, contributing to a more nuanced understanding of how stress-sensitive neural circuits emerge and function across the lifespan.
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