The Case Western Reserve University community is invited to attend the next Frontiers in Biological Sciences Lecture Series event, hosted by the Department of Neurosciences, Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 4 p.m. via Zoom.
Catherine Dulac, the Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, will present “Neurobiology of Social Behaviors.” Dulac’s lecture will explore progress from her lab research using genetic, imaging, molecular and behavioral approaches to understand how the brain controls specific social behaviors in both males and females, and how areas throughout the brain participate in the positive and negative controls of specific social interactions. She also will describe how new approaches of single cell transcriptomics have enabled researchers to uncover specific cell populations involved in distinct social behaviors and the basis of their activity modulation according to the animal state.
Register online to attend Dulac’s lecture. Email kellyfs@case.edu for more information.
About the speaker
In addition to her position as the Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Dulac is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Her work explores the identity and function of neural circuits underlying instinctive social behaviors in mice, and the role of genomic imprinting in the adult and developing brain. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. She is a recipient of multiple awards, including the National Academy’s Pradel Research Award, the Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience, the Karl Spencer Lashley Award from the American Philosophical Society, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize from the Society for Neuroscience (co-recipient with Mike Greenberg), and the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. She is a member of numerous Scientific Advisory Boards in the U.S. and abroad, and served as the co-chair of the National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee to the NIH Director, BRAIN Initiative 2.0 Working Group.