Tara Keck (born November 26, 1978, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American-British neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, at University College London working in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology, and Pharmacology.
[1][2] She studies experience-dependent synaptic plasticity, its effect on behaviour[3] and how it changes during ageing and age-related diseases.
[4] She has worked in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund on approaches for healthy ageing.
[13] Professor Keck completed her postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Munich, Germany with Tobias Bonhoeffer and Mark Hübener.
[14] She received an MRC Career Development Fellowship from the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) in 2010[15] and subsequently started her own lab at King's College London in the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology.