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Bianca Jones Marlin, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar and Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cell Research at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute. Her research investigates how organisms unlock innate behaviors at appropriate times, and how learned information is passed to subsequent generations via intergenerational epigenetic inheritance. The Marlin Lab combines molecular genetics, neural imaging, and behavior to uncover the mechanisms by which learning and emotion are biologically transmitted from neurons of the parent to neurons of their offspring , providing insight into how learned behavior in the parent can become innate in the offspring.