Sonja Catherine Vernes is a neuroscientist who is, as of 2022, the head of the Neurogenetics of Vocal Communication Research Group at the University of St Andrews.
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Sonja Vernes holds a UK Research and Innovation future leaders fellowship.
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Sonja Vernes was a laureate for the 2022 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
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Sonja Vernes showed that the FOXP2 team altered neurodevelopment in human and mouse models.
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Sonja Vernes showed the relationship between CNTNAP2 and FOXP2, indicating that the pair can cause various language-related issues.
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Sonja Vernes held a short Wellcome Trust fellowship before joining the FC Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging as a research fellow.
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Sonja Vernes was awarded a Max Planck Society and Human Frontier Science Program grant to establish her own research group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
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Sonja Vernes made use of bats to study speech and language traits.
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Sonja Vernes was the first to make use of bats as a tractable mammalian model of vocal learning.
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Sonja Vernes is particularly interested in the biological mechanisms that underpin human speech.
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Sonja Vernes achieves this by studying how bats learn vocalisations, and the genetic pathways that contribute to language learning and recognition.
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Sonja Vernes was awarded a European Research Council consolidator grant in 2020, for the BATSPEAK project.
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Sonja Vernes is founding co-director of the international research consortium Bat1K.