Kelly Tennant PhD

Dr. Kelly Tennant is a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research-funded post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Craig Brown’s lab at the University of Victoria. Her current research interests include behavioral assessment in mouse models of stroke, functional plasticity of blood vessels and neurons both in the intact brain and the stroke-affected brain, and the role of comorbid conditions on recovery of function. Tennant earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Texas (Austin) where she was a recipient of a National Institutes of Health pre-doctoral award. Her dissertation work focused on how aging affects the ability to learn new motor skills or re-learn those skills after a stroke and how motor skill learning changes functional movement representations in the motor cortex. Her current work utilizes in-vivo two-photon imaging combined with behavioral measures of forelimb function to determine how changes in neurons and vasculature contribute to poor post-stroke recovery in diabetic mice.