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Member Profiles
Leslie
Kerr
Current Research Projects: Influences of
hormonal alterations due to neonatal handling and maternal separation
on the development of normal mammary glands in female mice: environment-gene
interactions. (CIHR, pending)
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I
am a behavioral neuroscientist whose preclinical research investigates
the influence of stress and coping on physiological mechanisms underlying
illness and disease. Specifically, my research examines how stressors
influence physiological and cellular mechanisms involved in mammary
gland development, cancer growth and chemotherapeutic efficacy. To
date, my research has been preclinical, that is, conducted using
infrahumans (mice and rats) and the stressors used were either more
physical (slight footshock) or physical and psychological (e.g. odour
of a conspecific, social housing, maternal care). My current research
is funded by internally allocated CIHR (Canadian Institutes for Health)
operating grants. In addition to her formal research training at
the university level, I worked for one year between my B.Sc. and
M.Sc. studies at Health and Welfare Canada (Toxicology Division)
as a research technician on a project studying the effects of on-toxic
levels of lead and mercury on sight, hearing, somatotopic sensations
in adult male and female macaque cynomologus monkeys. I am a member
of the Society for Neuroscience and the American Association for
Cancer Research.