College of Science Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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McClelland Park, Room 105
650 N. Park Ave, Tucson, AZ 85721-0078
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Presenter Details
Noah Snyder-Mackler, PhD
Associate Professor
Arizona State University
Snyder-Mackler's molecular and computational lab combines demographic and behavioral data with high throughput genomics and the requisite bioinformatic and statistical tools to probe the dynamic interaction between the environment and the genome. They tackle questions from two directions:
- Identifying the molecular mechanisms through which the environment, age, socioeconomic status and lived experiences alter physiology, health and survival.
- Examining the molecular and physiological adaptations that help organisms thrive in extreme environments.
They conduct this work using socially complex nonhuman primates and dogs, where they pair molecular, computational and statistical tools from genomics, behavioral ecology and neuroscience with theories from sociology, evolutionary biology and immunology, to investigate the dynamic interaction between our environments and our bodies.