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Genes & Behavior
Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar
March 13-14, 2010
Ventura Beach Marriott
Ventura, CA

Related Meeting Information
The Genes & Behavior Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar was held in conjunction with the Genes & Behavior Gordon Research Conference. Please refer to the Genes & Behavior GRC web page for more information.

The Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar on Genes & Behavior is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The meeting will focus on new insights and common principles arising from recent studies on the relationships between genes and behavior, and we are particularly interested in bringing together researchers using both “traditional behavioral models” and “traditional genetic models,” as well as researchers studying human behavior genetics. We will be joined by a carefully selected group of senior scientists who will serve as mentors, but the vast majority of speakers and attendees will be junior scientists.


Contributors

SATURDAY
2:00 pmCheck-In Begins
3:00 pm - 3:15 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pmFRAMING KEY QUESTIONS IN GENES & BEHAVIOR
3:15 pm - 3:33 pm Jonathan Flint (Oxford University)
"How genes influence behavior: lessons from mouse genetics"
3:33 pm - 3:37 pm Discussion
3:37 pm - 3:55 pm David Clayton (University of Illinois)
"Integrating levels of analysis in genes and behavior"
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm Discussion
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmFROM GENES TO BRAIN TO BEHAVIOR
Discussion Leaders: John Hildebrand (University of Arizona) and Claudia Lutz (University of Illinois)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm Akira Sakurai (Tohoku University)
"Identification of genes and neurons that determine female sexual receptivity in Drosophila"
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:15 pm Z. Sophia Liang (University of Illinois)
"Scouting behavior in honey bees has a distinct neurogenomic profile and is influenced by glutamate and octopamine"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm Pete Lovell (Oregon Health Sciences University)
"ZEBrA: A web-based brain expression atlas of the songbird transcriptome"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:05 pm Zoe Donaldson (Columbia University)
"Use of lentiviral technologies to induce germline transgenesis in an ethologically relevant model species"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm General Discussion
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 10:30 amTHE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT ON GENES & BEHAVIOR
Discussion Leaders: Catherine Rankin (University of British Columbia) and Jesse Weber (Harvard University)
9:00 am - 9:20 am Viara Mileva (University of Toronto at Mississauga)
"Monoamine genes, environment, and maternal behavior"
9:20 am - 9:25 am Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am Jenny Tung (Duke University)
"Socially mediated gene-environment interactions in wild baboons"
9:45 am - 9:50 am Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am Michael Cressy (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories)
"Experimental evolution of rutabaga suppression: modeling epistasis underlying behavior"
10:10 am - 10:15 am Discussion
10:15 am - 10:30 am General Discussion
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 12:30 pmTHE EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOR
Discussion Leaders: Hopi Hoekstra (Harvard University) and Rinaldo Bertossa (University of Groningen)
11:00 am - 11:20 am Abigail Wark (University of Washington)
"Genetics of schooling behavior in threespine sticklebacks"
11:20 am - 11:25 am Discussion
11:25 am - 11:45 am Kate Ihle (Arizona State University)
"Genetic loci associated with hormonal response to vitellogenin gene knockdown and ovary size in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)"
11:45 am - 11:50 am Discussion
11:50 am - 12:10 pm Masato Yoshizawa (University of Maryland)
"Evolution of an adaptive behavior in the cavefish Astyanax"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm General Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 3:30 pmPoster Session II
3:30 pmGordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm.

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