Advanced Course on Genes, Circuits and Behavior

Advanced Course on Genes and Behavior
October 29 to November 10, 2012
National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore



Teachers:
Jean-Francois Ferveur, Universite de Bourgogne, France
Jonathan Flint, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, UK
Ralph Greenspan, University of California, San Diego, USA
Gaiti Hasan, NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore
Laurent Keller, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Ksenija Marinkovic, University of California, San Diego, USA

Genetic studies of diseases that affect human behavior suggest that while the underlying cause maybe genetic, environmental factors are hugely influential in disease manifestation and progression. To understand genetic vs environmental contributions to behavior it is necessary to study it in a context where both can be manipulated. The proposed course will begin by a series of lectures, paper discussion and experiments that will investigate genetic paradigms of behavior in a relatively simple genetic model - Drosophila melanogaster. This will be followed by lectures on social insects (specifically ants) where environment plays a strong role in deciding behavioral outputs. The second half of the course will go onto studies of human behavior and nervous system function. The entire workshop is planned in the context of evolutionary development of the nervous system and behavior.

The course will run over two weeks and will consist of an intensive set of lectures, discussions and research paper presentations by registered participants.


Organisers :
Gaiti Hasan, NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore
Ralph Greenspan, University of California, San Diego, USA
 

Please click here for the course schedule


Background reading for Ralph Greenspan lectures


Background reading for Jean-Francois Ferveur lectures

 

Background reading for Laurent Keller lectures


Background reading for Jonathan  Flint lectures


             
Background reading for Ksenija Marinkovic lectures

 

The course will be over by the evening of  Friday November 9, 2012


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