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.
| SATURDAY |
| 2:00 pm | Check-In Begins |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | FRAMING 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 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | FROM 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 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | THE 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 pm | THE 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 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| 3:30 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
Last Updated: March 5, 2010