Honors & Awards:
- Hartig Distinguished Professor (2011)
- Mentor of the Year (2013)
- Troyer Research Fellowship (2015)
- Rho Chi Faculty Member of the Year (2010, 2019, 2023)
Latest Projects & Publications:
Williamson, A.C., LeBlanc, H.R., Gentry, B.G., Wrenn, C.C. Study of daily oral genistein on spatial and olfactory memory in wild-type and transgenic mice that model Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, July 2018
Sulkowski, B.A., Rohr, B.V., Kasra, J.F., Wrenn, C.C. Social behavior of the triple-transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, July 2018
Sulkowski, B.A., LeBlanc, H.R., Williamson, A.C., Rohr, B.V., Gentry, B.G., Wrenn, C.C. Social learning and social behavior of the triple-transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Society for Neuroscience, October 2019
French, E., Baker, D., McCallian, R., Kirk, R., Reilly, M.P., Valdovinos, M.G. Effects of clonidine on progressive ratio schedule performance in Fmr1 knockout mice. Psychopharmacology (2021)
Klein, A.K., Andert, N.J., Sulkowski, B.A., Wrenn, C.C. Performance of 3xTg-AD mince in a social task: identification of confounds in the beahvioral phenotype. Society for Neuroscience, November 2021
Klein, A.K., Andert, N.J., Reiman, K.R., Wrenn, C.C. Relationship between barbering and dominance hierarchy in B6129SF2/J. Society for Neuroscience, November 2022
Cox, A.D., Wrenn, C.C., Valdovinos, M.G. Behavioral Pharmacology in Translational Perspectives on Applied Behavior Analysis, ed. Henry S. Roane, Andrew R. Craig, Valdeep Saini, and Joel E. Ringdahl, The Guilford Press (2024)
Valdovinos, M.G and Wrenn, C.C. ABA Meets Psychopharmacology: The Interaction of Two methodologies in A Practical Guide to Functional Assessment and Treatment for Severe Problem Behavior, ed. Joshua Jessel and Peter Sturmey, Academic Press (2025)
Research Interests:
Learning and memory, Alzheimer’s disease, endocrine
diruptors, Fragile X syndrome