LIFE Seminar Summer 2024
Genetics, Social Inequality, and Development
Organizer: Laurel Raffington, MPI for Human Development
April 11, 2024, 15:00 – 17:00 (hybrid meeting)
Genetic myths of destiny and race
Laurel Raffington (MPIB) & Sam Trejo (Princeton University)
April 18, 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Tracing origins of modern humans using extant and ancient genomes
Mateja Hajdinjak (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology)
April 25, 2024, 15:00 – 17:00 (online meeting)
GWASs and PGIs*: Foundations, potential utility, and methodological limitations
*GWASs (genome-wide association studies) and PGIs (polygenic indexes, also called polygenic scores or PGSs)
Robel Alemu (University of California)
May 2, 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Family-based approaches to gene-environment interplay in life course depression
Ziada Ayorech (University of Oslo)
May 16, 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Parenting and the intergenerational transmission of (dis-)advantage
Jasmin Wertz (University of Edinburgh)
May 23, 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Nature, nurture and nonshared environment in cognitive development
Robert Plomin (King’s College London)
June 13, 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Noncognitive skills in education: Investigating the interplay between genes, environments, and development
Margherita Malanchini (Queen Mary University of London)
June 20, 2024, 15:00 – 17:00 (online meeting)
Empirical and conceptual issues in the genetics of cognitive aging and dementia
Elliot Tucker-Drob (University of Texas at Austin)
June 27, 2024, 15:00 – 17:00 (online meeting)
Genetics research ethics, outreach, communication, and education
Robbee Wedow (Purdue University)
July 4, 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Genetic research on social science phenotypes: Risks, benefits, and interpretive challenges
Kathryn Paige Harden (University of Texas at Austin)
July 10, 2024, 15:00 – 17:00 (online meeting)
Measuring ageing the longitudinal way: The Pace of Ageing in the Dunedin Study
Terrie Moffitt (Duke University)
July 18, 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Harnessing epigenetics to study the shared nature of development in childhood and biological aging in adulthood
Laurel Raffington (MPIB)