Join speakers Hans Hofmann, PhD, and Kimberly Rosvall, PhD, for the third session of a collaborative series by the Society for Neuroscience and The Kavli Foundation. Moderated by Alison Bell, PhD, this webinar will explore how brains cope with changing environments, with a focus on neurogenomic mechanisms across diverse model organisms. Presentations and discussions will highlight recent advances in the field and key conceptual questions that together shed light on mechanisms of neural adaptation.
Speakers
Hans Hoffman, PhD
Hans Hoffman, PhD, is a professor at the Institute for Neuroscience at The University of Texas at Austin. Hofmann received a master's degree in animal physiology from the University of Tübingen (Germany), conducted his doctoral dissertation research at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen (Germany), and received a PhD from the University of Leipzig (Germany). He completed his postdoctoral studies in social neuroscience at Stanford University. Hofmann's research focuses on the molecular and neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying individual and species variation in social behavior and its evolution. Working in both laboratory and field settings, he has pioneered the application of genomic analyses in social neuroscience and made several conceptual advances to our understanding of the evolutionary processes that gave rise to the "social brain.”
Kimberly Rosvall, PhD
Kimberly Rosvall, PhD, is a professor at the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior at Indiana University. She received her BS in biology from UCLA and her PhD in biology from Duke University, under the supervision of Steve Nowicki. Rosvall trained as an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University, guided by Ellen Ketterson, Jim Goodson, and Dale Sengelaub. She started her lab at Indiana University in 2014. The Rosvall lab seeks to identify the neurogenomic and physiological bases of behavioral adaptation and plasticity and how these mechanisms change over evolutionary time. It approaches these questions by combining conceptual and analytical tools from animal behavior, neuroendocrinology, evolutionary ecology, physiology, and genomics–almost entirely by studying free-living birds.
Alison Bell, PhD
Alison Bell, PhD, has been a professor at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior since 2005 and is the director of the Kellner Center for Neurogenomics, Behavior, and Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bell earned a bachelor’s degree in history and philosophy of science at the University of Chicago, a PhD in population biology at the University of California, Davis, and was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Bell’s research is focused on individual differences in behavior, using three-spined stickleback fish as a model organism, and integrates approaches from neuroscience, genomics and evolutionary biology to understand why individuals differ from both proximate and ultimate perspectives.
Who can attend this webinar? This webinar will be complimentary.
Will this webinar be available on demand? Yes, this webinar will be available on demand one week from the live broadcast.
Will a certificate of attendance be offered for this event? No, SfN does not provide certificates of attendance for webinars.
How do I access the conference on the live day? After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the event link and the option to download calendar reminders.
What are the technology requirements for attending? This webinar will be hosted on Zoom Webinar. Instructions for joining and participating in a webinar can be found here.
Can I ask the presenters questions? Yes! You can submit any questions before the webinar through the registration form. During the webinar, you can submit questions through the Q&A box.
I have other questions not answered here. Email neuronline@sfn.org with any other questions.
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