Campus Political Activities courtesy of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Animal studies reveal that the molecular wiring of the brain can be altered by heredity, the environment, and their interaction. A deeper molecular understanding of these interactions could be a potent antidote to societal concerns of genetic determinism for human behavior. But this requires a framework that better integrates animal and human behavioral genetic studies, a long-standing problem in the field. This lecture will explain the underlying science. Turning the tables, Professor Robinson will also invite your ideas on why this problem persists and how we might bridge the gap.

About the speaker:
Gene Robinson | website
CAS Professor and Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois