Katherine Bryant

Katherine is a postdoctural fellow in neuroscience at Aix-Marseille Université (AMU). Her work focuses on the anatomic changes that occur in baboon development from birth to adulthood, with a special focus on lateralization of grey and white matter. The analysis of these data will permit greater insight into the evolution of the substrate of human language. She plans to apply the same analysis to commonly studied model primate species to create valuable comparative resources for researchers investigating cognitive processes in model species. After training in evolutionary neuroanatomy and architectonics during her PhD, she received a Marie Skłodowska Curie Independent Fellowship to further her training in comparative neuroimaging methods with Rogier Mars, eventually developing comprehensive white matter atlases for the chimpanzee and gibbon. Her long-term research goals are to contribute brain organization resources that offer insight into the evolution of large brains across mammalian taxa.