Steve Cole - University of California-Los Angeles
Social Regulation of Gene Expression
Date: 04/21/2016 (Thu)
Time: 3:30pm- 5:00pm
Location: Seminar will be held on-site: Gross Hall - 270
Organizer: Jenny Tung
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All meetings will be held in the same location as the seminar unless otherwise noted.
8:30am - Breakfast w/ Jenny Tung, Seth Sanders
9:30am - Noah Snyder-Mackler
10:00am - Tauras Vilgalys
10:30am - OPEN
11:00am - Katherine King
11:30am - Amanda Lea
12:00pm - Lunch w/ Elizabeth Frankenberg, Duncan Thomas
1:30pm - Jay Pearson
2:00pm - Giovanna Merli
2:30pm - Asia Maselko
3:00pm - Seminar Prep
3:30pm - Seminar Presentation (3:30pm to 5:00pm)
6:00pm - Dinner: Dan Belsky, Jenny Tung, Noah Snyder-Mackler
Additional Comments: Relationships between genes and social behavior have historically been viewed as a one-way street, with genes in control. Research in social genomics has begun to challenge this view by discovering broad alterations in the expression of genes across differing socio-environmental conditions. This talk will summarize the emerging field of social genomics and its efforts to identify the types of genes subject to social regulation, the psychological and biological signaling pathways mediating such effects, and the genetic polymorphisms that modify their impact across individuals. Mammals appear to have evolved distinct gene regulation regimes to capitalize on the changing threats and affordances associated with sociality. Regardless of how well these adaptations may have served us under ancestral conditions, they now create a deep molecular connection between our personal environmental histories and the cellular and molecular processes that shape our future health and behavioral trajectories.