Rebecca C. Knickmeyer, PhD

Biography

Dr. Knickmeyer, Associate Professor in the College of Human Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, has spent 20 years working at the cutting edge of cognitive developmental neuroscience, integrating pediatric neuroimaging and behavioral assessments with state-of-the-art techniques in genomics, metagenomics, and analytical chemistry. She is especially interested in the first 1,000 days of life (conception to late toddlerhood), a unique period of vulnerability and opportunity f