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  • Sociogenomics and the Dynamic Genome: A New Perspective on Nature and Nurture

Sociogenomics and the Dynamic Genome: A New Perspective on Nature and Nurture

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

7:30–9 p.m.

Presidents Hall, Franklin Hall

Lecturer

2018—Gene Robinson

Swanlund Chair; Director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This lecture will describe the roots of sociogenomics and how it provides a new framework for understanding the relationship between genes and social behavior. The key discoveries underlying this framework will be discussed: 1) Brain gene expression is closely linked with behavior, across time scales, from physiological to evolutionary; 2) Environmentally induced changes in gene expression mediate changes in behavior; and 3) The relationship between genes and behavior is highly conserved, from animals to humans.

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