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As a student I was really fascinated by the sort of differences in behavior that
you see and nature;
striking differences between different species of birds and how they dance
or different social behaviors, but I was also a biochemist
and I was fascinated by
genes and proteins and things like that, so I really was convinced that
it is possible to make a link between the genes and behavior,
and that's what I've been working [on] throughout my career to try to understand
how you can go from a gene,
the starting point, to the outcome of behavior.
And of course we know that behavior is controlled by the brain and the brain is
controlled by genes, so the philosophy that we've taken in my lab is really
to see how variation in genes affects neuroanatomy
or brain distributions of different molecules, and how those differences in
distributions affect behavior.
So I believes that you really have to have a comprehensive view,
go across multiple different levels of analysis,
to really understand how our genes, the molecules that we inherited from our
parents can influence our behavior as adults