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Autism, Evolution, and Human Genetics

Cultural Autism Studies at Yale (CASY, ethnography project led by Dr. Dawn Prince-Hughes) was delighted to welcome Dr. Emily Casanova on Monday, April 7, 2025. There is no cost to attend CASY events and international participants are invited to attend. Come join us at https://www.meetup.com/ProjectCASY TITLE: Autism, Evolution, and Human Genetics DESCRIPTIION: Dr. Casanova's recent research in paleogenomics (ancient genetics) suggests that some aspects of the genetics of autism may be traced back to the closest relatives of modern humans (e.g., Neandertals). Her talk will review what her collaborative team has found so far and what areas of this research are still left to explore. BRIEF BIO: Emily Casanova, Ph.D. s an autistic scientist on the Ehlers-Danlos (EDS) spectrum who’s been studying autism for the last couple of decades. She’s also been a part of the online autistic community since 2003, both as a moderator at Wrong Planet and later creating her own forum, Gestalt. Now, she maintains a popular TikTok channel (emilylcasanovaphd) focusing on autism- and EDS-related science and history and can also be found on YouTube on her channel, Science Over a Cuppa ‪@emilylcasanovaphd‬. On the lighter side, Emily enjoys a bit of fossil collecting, antique collecting, and digital photography. She’s an animal person—but especially a cat person and is known to wear far too many cat-related t-shirts. She loves a good strong black tea, occasional knitting, and spending time with her family (both the two- and four-legged varieties). Emily is both a passionate researcher and educator. She has a Ph.D. in Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology and was originally trained in wet lab research, working with postmortem tissue. In her postdoctoral training, she moved into clinical and data science. In her dry lab, she uses bioinformatics to address key questions about autism paleogenomics (ancient genetics), including what roles Neandertal-derived DNA may be playing in modern human populations, including those on the autism spectrum. In her clinical lab, she studies the overlap of autism and connective tissue disorders such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Finally, she also studies the evolution of developmental and neural genes in relation to macroevolutionary patterns like Punctuated Equilibria. ABOUT Cultural Autism Studies at Yale (CASY): An 'ethnography' is an exploration of how a group of people express themselves in a cultural way. Autistic people have a growing kind of culture, and each autistic experience is a vital part of it. Dr. Dawn Prince-Hughes is an anthropologist, ethnographer, primatologist, and author who is autistic. Join her for an exploration of the importance of autistic self-expression and the culture that grows from it. Those who wish to share their content are free to do so on our private Facebook groups (see below), organically contributing to a growing autistic culture. Links to online events will also be shared on these private Facebook groups: CASY Cultural Autism Studies at Yale http://tinyurl.com/4ckbyut7 (recommended for autistic adults) and SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY FOR AUTISM http://tinyurl.com/mrxnxmnc (recommended for allies, professionals, and family members). CREDITS: The preparation of this material was financed under an agreement with the Connecticut Council on Developmental Disabilities https://portal.ct.gov/ctcdd (CTCDD). CASY Sparks membership and events are free. CASY Sparks is sponsored in part by The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation https://djfiddlefoundation.org Adult Autism Research Fund, and Dr. Roger Jou ‪‪‪@DrRogerJou‬