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Eric Barry Keverne to Discuss "Brain Evolution, Hormones, and Social Bonding" April 15
Eric Barry Keverne, professor of behavioral neuroscience and director of the sub-department of animal behavior at the University of Cambridge, will discuss "Brain Evolution, Hormones and Social Bonding" on Tuesday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. in Franklin & Marshall's Bonchek Lecture Hall, Barshinger Life Sciences and Philosophy Building.
The talk, sponsored by the Center for Liberal Arts and Society and the Department of Psychology, is free and open to the public.
Keverne has longstanding experience in behavioral neuroscience and has, in the past 10 years, brought molecular genetic techniques to focus on brain development and investigate how genetic perturbations of the brain influence brain function.
In particular he has employed androgenetic and parthenogenetic chimeras to understand how the imprinted genome influences brain development and has extensively investigated the adult phenotype of mice carrying a mutation in paternally expressed genes.
These studies have led to a co-adaptive evolutionary theory of brain and placental development through genomic imprinting. Pheromonal influences on behavior and endocrine responses in mice is also a longstanding interest and in recent years, together with Piers Emson, he has investigated pheromonal signaling via Erk and Akt phosphorylation to enhance vomeronasal neural regeneration survival.
The talk, sponsored by the Center for Liberal Arts and Society and the Department of Psychology, is free and open to the public.
Keverne has longstanding experience in behavioral neuroscience and has, in the past 10 years, brought molecular genetic techniques to focus on brain development and investigate how genetic perturbations of the brain influence brain function.
In particular he has employed androgenetic and parthenogenetic chimeras to understand how the imprinted genome influences brain development and has extensively investigated the adult phenotype of mice carrying a mutation in paternally expressed genes.
These studies have led to a co-adaptive evolutionary theory of brain and placental development through genomic imprinting. Pheromonal influences on behavior and endocrine responses in mice is also a longstanding interest and in recent years, together with Piers Emson, he has investigated pheromonal signaling via Erk and Akt phosphorylation to enhance vomeronasal neural regeneration survival.
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