Dalton Conley - Princeton
Reconciliation: Modelling GxE Across the Lifecourse
Date: 03/09/2017 (Thu)
Time: 3:30pm- 5:00pm
Location: Seminar will be held on-site: Gross Hall 230E
Organizer: Dan Belsky
Meeting Schedule: Login or email the organizer to schedule a meeting.
All meetings will be held in the same location as the seminar unless otherwise noted.
8:30am - Belsky
9:00am - Belsky
9:30am - Dalton @ Grey House w/ Caspi Moffitt Postdocs
10:00am - Dalton @ Grey House w/ Caspi Moffitt Postdocs
10:30am - Dalton @ Grey House w/ Caspi Moffitt Postdocs
11:00am - Bryce Bartlett
11:30am - James Shah
12:00pm - Lunch- Emma Zang, Laura Bellows, Josh Rivenbark, Bryce Bartlett
12:30pm - Lunch-
1:00pm - Lunch-
1:30pm - James Moody
2:00pm - Giovanna Merli
2:30pm - Angie O'Rand
3:00pm - Prepare for seminar
3:30pm - Seminar Presentation (3:30pm to 5:00pm)
6:30pm - Dinner: Dan Belsky, Scott Lynch
Additional Comments: Abstract: It is now recognized among many scholars that most socio-behavioral outcomes evince both strong genetic and environmental components that contribute to their variation in natural populations. The next step in reconciling nature and nurture, then, is to properly model gene-environment interplay. In this talk, I will discuss a series of attempts to apply econometric methods for causal inference--namely, a natural experiment framework--to genome-wide data available in social surveys to model gene-by-environment interaction effects. Examples in this vein include deploying the Vietnam draft lottery, twin differences in birth weight, cohort change, and sibling differences in genotype (polygenic scores) to questions of health, development and socioeconomic attainment across the life course. In addition to trying to properly operationalize E, I will discuss alternatives to conceptualizing and measuring genetic regulation of plasticity that may inform GxE models.