Victoria Brown-Kennerly

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Assistant Professor College of Science and Health Department of Biological Sciences St. Louis Main Campus, Missouri vbrownkennerly64@webster.edu Office: (314) 246-8645
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Bio/Research

Victoria Brown-Kennerly is an Associate Professor of Biology in the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Webster University. She teaches various courses in biology, genetics, and bioinformatics. Her research currently focuses on animal behavior using harvester ants as a model social ...

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Bio/Research

Victoria Brown-Kennerly is an Associate Professor of Biology in the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Webster University. She teaches various courses in biology, genetics, and bioinformatics. Her research currently focuses on animal behavior using harvester ants as a model social system to study sensory perception, pathfinding, communications, and innate behaviors. Her students participate in the national SEA-PHAGES bacteriophage discovery project and the Citizen DNA Barcode Network using genetics to study biodiversity. At Webster University, she has earned awards including Advisor of the Year, Learning Happens Everywhere, and Women of Webster. Brown-Kennerly earned a BS in Biology from University of Michigan, and a PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Emory University. She was a postdoctoral Damon Runyon Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle and an NIH K01 Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis. She is named on two patents: ‘Genome Editing of Cytochrome P450 in Animals,’ and ‘Method and identification of mRNA ligands to FMRP and their role in fragile X syndrome and associated disorders.’

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