Gene Robinson - Solving the “Nature vs Nurture” Dilemma
Robinson holds a University Swanlund Chair at the University of Illinois. He is also the director of the University of Illinois Bee Research Facility, director of the Neuroscience Program, leader of the Neural and Behavioral Plasticity Theme at the Institute for Genomic Biology, and a professor of entomology with affiliate appointments in the Departments of Cell & Developmental Biology, Natural Resources& Environmental Sciences, and Animal Biology and in the Beckman Institute of Science and Technology. He is the author or co-author of over 200 publications, pioneered the application of genomics to the study of social behavior, led the effort to gain approval from the National Institutes of Health for sequencing the honey bee genome, and heads the Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Consortium.
Website: www.life.illinois.edu/robinson.
This talk was recorded at TEDxUIUC 2010 (April 10, 2010).