News & Media
The Honeycutt Lab Receives Maine INBRE Funding!
The Honeycutt Research in Affective and Translational [RAT] Neuroscience Lab has received a Maine INBRE Investigator Award (funded through NIH NIGMS) to investigate the behavioral, neural, and epigenomic consequences of early life adversity. This award will support the lab’s research for 3 years, providing research opportunities for Bowdoin’s undergraduates.
Award-Winning Student Research Talks
Summer 2021 RAT Neuro Lab research students gave compelling talks at the annual Northeast Regional IDeA Conference (NERIC)! Congratulations to Emma Noel (‘23) for Best Translational Research Talk, Sydney Bonauto (‘23) for taking 2nd in undergraduate Research Talks, and Seneca Ellis (‘22) for earning Honorable Mention for her Research Talk!
Radio Canada Interview
5/16/2021 - Dr. Honeycutt was recently interviewed for a segment on Radio Canada’s Science Program Les Années Lumière to discuss the biological and neuroanatomical impact of early life adversity and maltreatment on children and their development and wellbeing. Click here for the synopsis and segment (segment in French)
Full-Circle: Student Returns to Maine as INBRE-Funded Assistant Professor
By Kris Reaman (MDIBL)
“We welcome Dr. Jennifer Honeycutt in her return to Maine as an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Bowdoin College and newly-funded INBRE investigator.”
Honeycutt Lab awarded Maine INBRE funding!
Dr. Jennifer Honeycutt has received funding from the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) to conduct research alongside her undergraduate students at Bowdoin College. The funding will support the research aimed at understanding the intersection of anxiety-like behavior and genomic risk (via DNA methylation) following early life adversity. Click HERE to read more about this research!
Neuro at Home: Remote Brain Kits
Bowdoin Assist, Professor Jennifer Honeycutt, along with Lab Instructor Anja Forche, were featured for their efforts in creating experiential lab opportunities that could be completed in students’ homes during COVID remote learning. Shown here is a remote rat brain mounting lab being completed by students in Honeycutt’s Affective Neuroscience Lab course.
Family Connections:
An Interview with Dr. Jennifer Honeycutt
“An illustrated interview with Dr. Jennifer Honeycutt, Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Bowdoin College. We talk about her research on the consequence of early life adversity.”
Artwork by Valentina Ferro
Not all pandemic heroes wear capes
Science help for homebound kids.
”…good-hearted trainees and faculty have stepped up for families as well. Drs Jennifer Honeycutt and Audrey Hammack both reached out to their friends and family via social media offering different kinds of help to beleaguered families and offered some protips on how you can do the same.”
Childhood trauma changes your brain.
…But it doesn’t have to be permanent.
Coverage of our latest paper out in eLife detailing the developmental trajectory of corticolimbic connectivity in male and female rats following early adversity. Click below to read the article!
ANIMAL MODELS OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS CONFERENCE
Dr. Honeycutt was invited to speak at the Animal Models of Affective Disorders Conference at Ruhr-Universität in Bochum, Germany where she shared her recent work utilizing ultrasonic vocalization playback to induce acute anxiety-like behaviors and neural changes.
See the [German language] article below!
A LOOK INTO THE DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOBIOLOGY LAB
By Alexandra Jacullo (NEU ‘21), NU SCI Magazine, June 8, 2018
“On the third floor of Nightingale Hall, part of the infamous maze of buildings on Forsyth Street, is the Brenhouse Developmental Neuropsychobiology Lab. It is in this lab that Dr. Jennifer Honeycutt conducts her post-doctoral research and was generous enough to give some insight into the significant work being done in the lab, as well as a glimpse into what it’s like to be in her position as a post-doctoral researcher.”
TWO BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENTISTS DISCUSS LONG-TERM DAMAGE OF FAMILY SEPARATION
By Prabarna Ganguly, Massive Science, August 8, 2018
"Massive talks with Heather Brenhouse and Jennifer Honeycutt, two prominent behavioral neuroscientists at Northeastern University, to discuss the scientific underpinnings of a social phenomenon that has shaken the US. They discuss the nature of childhood stress, the role of resilience, and the perception of science in the world today."
DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOBIOLOGY LAB POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW RECEIVES NARSAD AWARD
By Sage Wesenberg, Northeastern University, August 29, 2017
"Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher Jennifer Honeycutt in receiving the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Grant, funded by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF)."
Dr. Honeycutt's artwork featured as a figure in a recent chapter written by Brenhouse, Danese, and Grassi-Oliveira entitled: Neuroimmune Impacts of Early-Life Stress on Development and Psychopathology.
WOMEN IN STEM -
JENNIFER A. HONEYCUTT
By Lauren Drogos, Ph.D., Blog Post, February 12, 2017
"Meet our next Woman in STEM: Dr. Jennifer A. Honeycutt. She is a postdoctoral fellow and part-time faculty in behavioral Neuroscience at Northeastern University in Boston."