Monthly Training Grant Breakfasts
Selected Wednesdays at 9:00 AM (unless otherwise noted)
January 22, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Justin Wood, Associate Professor, IU School of Informatics
Topic: “Using controlled rearing to study the development of behavior”
February 12, 2025
CTRD Grad Student Trainees, Swapping Roles. What better way to learn to communicate across our common themes than to present research that’s not your own? Come learn about our trainees’ research in this unique and fun flash-talk format.
March 5, 2025
CTRD postdocs 30 min research talks. Rebecca Westwick (Moczek lab) on “Sex and body size are associated with performance in different cognitive domains in a polyphenic insect” and Isaac Miller-Crews (Rosvall & Hahn labs) on “How behavioral strategies and sex shape brain transcriptome evolution”.
April 9, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Cara Wellman, Professor of Psychological and Brain Science, IU, and Director, Program in Animal Behavior, IU
Topic: Dr. Wellman will lead a discussion on:
- Do we have a responsibility to ensure our science isn’t misinterpreted and/or misused by the lay public?
- What might we do to prevent misuse/misinterpretation?
Below is a link to a Guardian article that motivated this discussion.
May 7, 2025
TBD
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