David Walker, a Ph.D. student at The University of St Andrews in Scotland discusses his research looking at the impact of early life stress and long-term outcomes in quails. He also explored the impact of the hormonal stress response later in life. 

Interview by Dr. Julie Ann Lough

Published in:

David J. Walker, Cédric Zimmer, Maria Larriva, Susan D. Healy, Karen A. Spencer. Early-life adversity programs long-term cytokine and microglia expression within the HPA axis in female Japanese quail. Journal of Experimental Biology 2019 : jeb.187039 doi: 10.1242/jeb.187039

Walker DJ, Spencer KA. Glucocorticoid programming of neuroimmune function. Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2018;256:80-88.