Projects

Project 1: Connections and stress-related activity of different neuron subpopulations of the central extended amygdala

Project 2: Forebrain regulation of the stress response in chickens

Project 3: Predicting stress sensitivity of laying hens by identifying genetic, incubation and rearing factors

Project 4: Bioinformatic analyses of stress-related genetic data in chickens

Project 5: Genetic and stress effects on the genoarchitecture and transcriptomics of the central extended amygdala

Project 6: Interactions between genetics and early environment on stress responsivity and adaptive capacity

Project 7: Effects of early-life experiences on micro-circuitry in forebrain areas involved in stress regulation

Project 8: Early life conditions and individual differences in range use in free-ranging laying hens

Project 9: Effects of on-farm hatching on behavioural development and stress responsivity in laying hens

Project 10: Developing housing to improve the transition between the rearing and laying periods

Project 11: Effects of early life experience on spatial cognition, neurogenesis and neurohormonal responses to stress

Project 12: Individual variation in tier use in commercial tiered aviaries

Project 13: Effects of housing conditions and of individual differences in space use on hippocampal neuroplasticity

Project 14: Changes in sleep as a measure of stress in laying hens