Minerva School 2018: Sociobiology and Sociogenomics

A workshop on the frontiers of social insect research with an emphasis on the application of omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics…)

• Phylogenomics and comparative genomics in the study of evolution of complexity and novelty
• Transcriptomics and regulatory networks in the study of SocioEvoDevo and indirect genetic effects
• Socio-physiology: hormones and neurons as links between genes and social behavior
• Emerging molecular technologies: CRISPR-Cas, epigenetics, miRNAs, microbiomes

Lectures will be accompanied with hands-on tutorials on the omics data analysis and a field trip. The School is primarily targeted at graduate students and postdocs.