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Lessons on Family Relationships From Poison Frogs
Contact: plund@simonsfoundation.org; lectures@simonsfoundation.org
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lessons-on-family-relationships-from-poison-frogs-tickets-1295674650759
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In this Presidential Lecture, Lauren O’Connell will describe her group’s research on the neural basis of social bonds in family relationships, including parental coordination of offspring care and parent-infant affiliation. Her group uses poison frogs, which have complex family units and simple brains, to uncover the neural mechanisms reinforcing familial interactions. She will also present the latest data on how variation in care quality during development shapes brain structure and function in offspring.
About the Speaker:
O’Connell is an associate professor at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, during which time she studied the brain mechanism supporting social networks. She then established her own laboratory at Harvard University, where she worked to build poison frogs as a model system for studying the neural basis of family relationships. In 2017, she moved to Stanford to continue her research on understanding organismal responses to social and environmental stimuli using amphibians. She has received numerous honors, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
SCHEDULE
Doors open: 5:30 p.m. (No entrance before 5:30 p.m.)
Lecture: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (Admittance closes at 6:20 p.m.)
Inquiries: lectures@simonsfoundation.org