Dr. Ioana Carcea Awarded Scialog Grant to Study Neural Pathways of Parental Care Under Heat Stress

Dr. Ioana Carcea, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience at NJMS and BHI core member, has been awarded funding through Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems for a collaborative project titled “Thermal Priming and Parental Care: Investigating Conserved Neural Pathways of Parental Care Plasticity in Response to Heat.” Dr. Carcea’s project is a collaboration with Dr. Laura Stein (University of Oklahoma) and Dr. Duncan Leitch (UCLA), and focuses on understanding how rising temperatures affect parenting behavior and neural mechanisms across species.