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CNI Accessible Lecture – Our Biocultural Brain: Tracing the Gene-Culture Coevolution of the Oxytocin Signaling and Sociality in Humans
Neuroscientists from all over the United States who care about community and democratizing neuroscience deliver accessible lectures on their cutting-edge work. These neuroscientists are generally from underrepresented groups and have their own track record of bringing neuroscience to the people.
Dr. Minwoo Lee joined the Life History Lab in 2023 after completing his Ph.D. in anthropology at Emory University. His research revolves around the evolutionary and developmental basis of prosociality in humans. He is especially interested in how the neuropeptide oxytocin helps us interface with our ever-changing social environments via neural and bodily mechanisms such as reinforcement learning, social bonding, stress response, and energy expenditure. In the long run, he aims to build a research program that can contribute to basic science and public health, especially concerning social minorities and foreign immigrants in South Korea. Outside the lab, he loves hiking, cooking, and playing the piano- as far as his cat grants him some free time.
