Garet Lahvis

Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Biography

Garet P. Lahvis is an assistant professor of Behavioral Neurosciences at Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU). His research interests are focused on social motivation and acoustic communication in mouse models of developmental disability and adolescent drug use. His laboratory has made seminal contributions to our understanding of the social and genetic conditions that moderate how affiliative vocalizations are expressed and how mice respond to the vocalizations of others. Dr. Lahvis combines experimental manipulations of social context, social motivation and behavioral response with computational approaches, including dynamic time warping, to dissociate critical features of call meaning. His research has been featured in public forums including NEWSWEEK Russia, TV, documentary and public radio.