Ina Anreiter
Assistant Professor
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Keywords
Animal behaviour, genetics, epigenetics, epitranscriptomics, gene regulation
Research Interests
We study processes of gene regulation that influence behaviour. Every individual is the product of their inherited genetic information and the environment in which they were conceived and developed. Experience influences development, biological processes, physiology, and behaviour. One of the big questions in behavioural science is how experience gets embedded in our biology, and why individuals differ in their behavioural responses. We use the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism to study the genetic, epigenetic, and epitranscriptomic regulation of behaviour, stress response, and biological embedding. Our work combines classical genetics, molecular biology, transcriptomics, behavioural assays, and bioinformatics.