11th Annual Breakfast for Champions
Join us on Tuesday November 24th for breakfast!
We will be celebrating another amazing year of PFC's work, the amazing sponsors/donors that make it possible. With guest speaker Dr. Sokolowski.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
In support of The Psychology Foundation of Canada’s programs helping children to become confident, and productive adults
7:00 am to 9:00 am, program begins at 8:00 am
Board of Trade, First Canadian Place, 77 Adelaide St. W. Suite 350, Toronto, ON M5X 1C1
Join us to hear Dr. Marla B. Sokolowski discuss geneUS – “It is time to put the nature versus nurture debate to rest and embrace growing evidence that it is the interaction between biology and environment in early life that influences human development. “Biologists used to think that our differences are pre-programmed in our genes, while psychologists argued that babies are born with a blank slate and their experience writes on it to shape them into the adults they become. Instead, the important question to be asking is, ‘How is our experience in early life getting embedded in our biology? The effects of different experiences, like developmental ones, can occur on different time scales. For example nutritional or social adversity (or enrichment) can occur throughout life, in early life alone with enduring effects on later life stages, or acutely over a matter of minutes or hours. This means that a stress management tool like Stress Strategies can have an impact on the way we handle stress.”
About the Guest Speaker
University Professor Marla B. Sokolowski, BSc (1977, University of Toronto), PhD (1981, University of Toronto), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1998), Canada Research Chair (2001) is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto. Her innovative work is esteemed worldwide as a clear, integrative mechanistic paragon of the manner in which genes can interact with the environment, thus impacting behaviour. She has trail-blazed the development of a branch of Behaviour Genetics that addresses the genetic and molecular bases of natural individual differences in behaviour and is best known for her discovery of the foraging gene. She has well over 140 publications and 170 invited lectures. She has supervised over 20 postdoctoral fellows and 35 graduate students with many of her trainees ascending to prestigious national and international academic positions. She has received Distinguished Visiting Professorships in the US and Europe where she contributes regularly to graduate education. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1998 for her pioneering work in the field of Behavioural Genetics and received a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Genetics and Behavioural Neurology from 2001-2014. In 2004 she became a Fellow of Massey College and in 2007 she received the Genetics Society of Canada’s Award of Excellence. In 2013 she was appointed as a senior fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for Research by the Government of Canada. In 2014 she was received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the International Behaviour and Neurogenetics Society. She co-directs the Child and Brain Development Programme of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research where she is the Weston Fellow. She was appointed the Director of the Life Sciences Division of the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009-2012, became a University Professor at University of Toronto in 2010 and a Distinguished Professor in 2014. She is the past Academic Director of the Fraser Mustard Institute for Human Development at University of Toronto (2012-2014).
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