Fall Quarter Brainstorms: A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (EVT 74)

This quarter we inaugurate Brainstorms: New Frontiers in Science & Technology, a lively public lecture series celebrating the latest research in science and technology at Stanford. Co-sponsored by the Dean of Research, the Associate Dean of Engineering, and Stanford Continuing Studies, the series features influential Stanford research scientists and engineers, and introduces the general public to the excitement of cutting-edge scientific inquiry.

Fall Quarter Brainstorms:

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

For years, Robert Sapolsky's laboratory has studied stress-related disease and the nervous system. But during the last 26 years, Sapolsky has been intermittently sneaking off from his lab to study stress in a very different setting: the Serengeti Plain of East Africa. During this time, he has followed the soap opera drama of a troop of savanna baboons. Throughout the years, he has asked, In this baboon world, who gets the stress-related diseases? What does it have to do with your social rank, personality and patterns of social affiliation?

Sapolsky will discuss his baboon research and read from his book, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons.