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Seminar: “Investigating the Genetic Basis of Reading and Language Skills”

21 December 2015

Alessandro Giallusi (Statistical Genetics Group, Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich - Germany) will hold a seminar on “Investigating the Genetic Basis of Reading and Language Skills”. The event will take place on 21st December 2015 (11:00 am) at Aula Leonardo (first floor) MBC-HuGeF (via Nizza 52, Turin).

 

The following seminars are scheduled: 

  • Francesca Fasanelli:  “FOXP2 Gene and Language Impairment in Schizophrenia: Association and Epigenetic Studies” (10:30 am)
  • Elisa Pozzi:  “The Zebrafish Orthologue of the Dyslexia Candidate Gene DYX1C1 Is Essential for Cilia Growth and Function” (12:00 pm)
  • Maja Popovic:  “ The Role of Candidate-gene CNTNAP2 in Childhood Apraxia of Speech and Specific Language Impairment” (12:30 pm)