March 20-21, 2013
Sponsor/Co-Sponsor(s)
Population Dynamics Branch (PDB) and Child Development and Behavior Branch, Division of Extramural Research (DER), NICHD
Location
Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rockville Maryland
Purpose
This workshop aims to encourage discussion about the interaction of the social environment with genes in children’s development and how best to conceptualize and measure environmental contexts—such as parenting and parent relationships, neighborhoods, peer relationships, and non-family caregiver arrangements—in studies of gene-by-environment interplay.
Contact
Dr. Rosalind King, PDB, DER, NICHD
Phone: 301-435-6986
E-mail: kingros@mail.nih.gov