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John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Date: March 16, 2012
Time: Noon to 1:00 pm
Anthony P. Auger, PhD
Title: "Epigenetic Organization of Juvenile Social Behavior: Do Sex Differences in the Brain Mediate Risk and Resilience for Atypical Social Development?"
Speaker: Anthony P. Auger, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
About the Talk: The developing brain is exquisitely sensitive to endogenous and environmental cues, and subtle, brief, changes in some of these cues during critical periods of brain development can produce lasting consequences on brain function. These gene x environment interactions shape brain development and may underlie individual differences in risk and resilience to disease. As aberrant epigenetic processes are implicated in some mental health disorders, and emerging data indicate that there are sex differences in epigenetic processes during brain development, it is plausible that sexual differentiation of the epigenome may partly underlie sex-biased vulnerability to mental health disorders. Therefore understanding sexual differentiation of the brain will aid in understanding biological pathways to resilience.
About the Speaker: Anthony P. Auger is an Associate Professor within the Department of Psychology and a faculty member in the Neuroscience Training Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Auger obtained a PhD from the Neuroscience and Behavior Program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and did his postdoctoral work within the Department of Physiology at the University of Maryland-Baltimore. A goal of his research is to understand how gene x environment x sex influences neonatal brain development and have lasting consequences on juvenile social behavior. In particular, his current research focuses on the epigenetic programming of juvenile social interactions. An underlying theme of this research is to elucidate how the sex of an individual may play an important role in an individual's risk or resilience to some mental health disorders.
Where: John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216, Second Floor, North Tower
For Further Information: Contact Teresa Palumbo at 263-5837 or palumbo@waisman.wisc.edu
This Seminar Series is partially funded by the John D. Wiley Conference Center Fund, the Friends of the Waisman Center and NIH grant P30 HD003352.
