Biology Department alum Giovanni Bosco was named as one of 13 recipients of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for 2015 for his project titled Trans-Generational Effects of Social Learning?. Established in 2004, the Pioneer Awards challenges investigators at all career levels to pursue new research directions and develop groundbreaking approaches with a high impact on a broad area of biomedical or behavioral science.
Dr. Bosco began his independent research program at the University of Arizona, Tucson in 2002, and recently moved to Dartmouth College where he is currently an associate professor of genetics at the Geisel School of Medicine. His research program has focused on chromosome dynamics, chromatin structure and 3D spatial organization of genomes. His most recent interests are to understand the molecular bases of how learning and memory occurs in the context of social behavior, how social behavior alters the mind-body connection, and how social behavior can be inherited through multiple generations.
Dr. Bosco was an honored speaker at the Department of Biology Alumni Event on September 25, where he gave a talk titled “Social fruit flies and what this means for our children and grandchildren.”