The public is invited to attend a free presentation at 10:15 a.m. on May 20 about the role of genetics in the development of differences between males and females.
Sponsored by the Division of Women’s Behavior Health Research in Yale Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor David C. Page, M.D., will discuss his laboratory’s work in understanding the biology and evolution of the X and Y chromosomes that distinguish male and female sex differences and the role these chromosomes play in differences between males and females beyond reproduction.
Since 2005, Page has served as Director of Whitehead Institute, an independent nonprofit research and teaching institution founded in 1982 that focuses on research in the fields of cancer, developmental biology, genetics, and genomics. His lab has pioneered some of the first studies to reveal findings about the origin of human Y chromosomes. In 2003, Page’s lab and the Genome Institute at Washington University first sequenced the complete human Y chromosome.
In the Women’s Behavior Health Research Division’s 2016 annual Grand Rounds, Dr. Page will discuss the evolutionary origins of X and Y chromosomes and how they contribute to the many biological differences between males and females in both health and disease.
"Sex and Disease: Do Males and Females Read their Genomes Differently?"
Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Sponsored by the Division of Women’s Behavioral Health Research
INVITED SPEAKER
David C. Page, M.D.
Director of Whitehead Institute, Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Date: Friday, May 20, 2016
Time: 10:15 a.m.
Location: Connecticut Mental Health Center Auditorium, 34 Park St., New Haven, CT
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