This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award to Scripps College, with a CFDA program title of "Biological Sciences", provides $340,093 to support a 5-year research project investigating the behavioral and neural mechanisms through which early-life social environments shape individual development across species.
The project will use the African cichlid fish model to uncover the causal attributes of social experience that influence behavioral phenotypes via plasticity in the neuroendocrine stress axis and arginine vasopressin signaling. The interdisciplinary research aims to expand knowledge on how social environments experienced throughout life shape individuals from behavior to health. Additionally, the award supports training of young scientists and integrating the research into educational programs to promote scientific literacy.
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