【GIR Open Seminar】 Dr. Andres Bendesky / Columbia University (U.S.A.)

Date	2025.12.3 (13：00 - 14：30)
Venue	Event Space, 1st. Fl., West Tokyo Global Innovation Co-Creation Center (Kaiko-kan), Fuchu Campus, TUAT
Speaker	Dr. Andres Bendesky
Affiliation	Columbia University (U.S.A.)
Title	"The evolution of social behaviors in nature and under domestication" ＜Abstract＞ What mechanisms underlie the vast diversity of social behaviors we observe in nature? I will present how we leverage extreme variation in social behaviors between populations of a species and between closely-related species of vertebrates to discover the genetic, neuronal, and endocrine bases of this variation. This work has identified unifying principles and a few surprises about the evolution of social behavior.
Language	English
Intended for	Everyone is welcome to join
Organized by	Institute of Global Innovation Research, Global Research Hub “Research Center of Informatics for Human-Animal Interaction”
Contact	Institute of Global Innovation Research, Institute of Agriculture Prof. Tsuyoshi Shimmura e-mail: shimmura(at) go.tuat.ac.jp
Remarks	This seminar will only be held face-to-face. Publications The genetic basis of parental care evolution in monogamous miceBendesky A, Kwon YM, Lassance J, Lewarch CL, Yao S, Peterson BK, He MX, Dulac C, Hoekstra HENature. 2017 Apr 27;544(7651):434-9. Evolution of a novel adrenal cell type that promotes parental careNiepoth N, Merritt JR, Uminski M, Lei E, Esquibies VS, Bando IB, Hernandez K, Gebhardt C, Wacker SA, Lutzu S, Poudel A, Soma KK, Rudolph S & Bendesky ANature. 2024 May 30 Catecholamine receptor polymorphisms aﬀect decision-making in C. elegansBendesky A, Tsunozaki M, Rockman MV, Kruglyak L, Bargmann CINature. 2011 Apr 21;472(7343):313-8

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【GIR Open Seminar】 Dr. Andres Bendesky / Columbia University (U.S.A.)