Home Welcome Speaker: Dr Iiris Hovatta Room: Lecture Hall A cross-species approach to identify genetic basis of anxiety disorders Seminar Date: Jun 6, 2016 Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dr Iiris Hovatta Group Leader, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland Location: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry Room: Lecture Hall Host: Chris Turck Contact: turck@psych.mpg.de Anxiety disorders are complex diseases with largely unknown etiology. We have taken a cross-species approach to identify genes that regulate anxiety-like behavior using inbred mouse strains that differ in their innate anxiety levels. [more]
