Tracy Bale (University of Colorado)
Tracy is a neuroscientist and molecular biologist. Her research is centred on the role of parental, prenatal, and early life stress on the developing brain and subsequent behaviour throughout the lifespan. We are looking forward to find out more about her work, which includes assessing sex-specificity, developmental timing, and epigenetic mechanisms involved in programming of the brain, reproductive tract, placenta, and sperm.
Frans de Waal (Emory University, Utrecht University)
Frans is a biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behaviour and social intelligence of primates. He draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal behaviour to argue that despite the linkage between gender and biological sex, biology does not automatically support the traditional gender roles in human societies.