Turhan Canli
Stony Brook University
Assoc. Professor of Psychology/Director, SCAN Center/Director, Graduate Program in Genetics
Dr. Canli's primary research interests cover the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology. His Ph.D. is in psychobiology (Yale University '93), with postdoctoral training in behavioral, cognitive and affective neuroscience (Yale University'93-'95; Stanford University'95-2001), and later training in molecular biology (certification Molecular Biology Summer Workshop, Smith College, 2002; sabbatical leave at the Genomics Core Facility, Stony Brook University, Jan-Dec 2008). Dr. Canli is the Director of the Graduate Program in Genetics, which coordinates education and training activities across 100 laboratories at Stony Brook University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Brookhaven National Laboratory, and currently supports 50 Ph.D. students in Genetics. Dr. Canli served on the National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA), Genetics Subcommittee, advising the National Institute on Aging (NIA), Division of Behavioral and Social Research (DBSR). He is also the PI, Founder and Director of the NSF-funded SCAN (Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience) Center, the only human research-dedicated MRI facility at Stony Brook. Current work in Dr. Canli's laboratory focuses on gene-environment interactions, specifically the molecular genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that regulate gene expression across the human genome. This general approach is applied to studies of individual differences in social stress reactivity, traits, and emotional behavior. Research in Dr. Canli's laboratory covers all levels of analysis: self-report, behavioral, neural, and molecular. Behavioral studies are conducted in the Department of Psychology. Neuroimaging studies are conducted in the SCAN (Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience) Center, a 3 Tesla Siemens Trio MRI imaging facility funded by the National Science Foundation in a grant to Dr. Canli. Molecular (epi-) genetic studies are conducted in Dr. Canli's lab in the Center for Molecular Medicine and the Psychology Department, the Genomics Core Facility, and the Proteomics Core Facility. Dr. Canli's secondary area of interest is related to problems in the real world. He is a co-founder of the Neuroethics Society, an international scholarly society concerned with the ethical implications of neuroscience applications in the real world. He has served on the Executive Board of the Neuroethics Society since its inception in 2006, and also serves as a Senior Fellow in the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, as well as a member of the Advisory Council of the Brazilian Ethics and Bioethics Institute in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Email: turhan.canli@sunysb.edu
Homepage: http://www.psychology.stonybrook.edu/tcanli-/