Evan Balaban is associate professor and head of the Neurosciences Program at CUNY College of Staten Island and the New York State Institute for Basic Research on Developmental Disabilities. Dr. Balaban has lectured around the world on the relationship between genetics and behavior, co-edited The Differences Between the Sexes, and is currently working on a book titled Moral Biology: Genetics and the Complex Human Phenotype. While a senior fellow in experimental neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute, Professor Balaban's research was cited by Discover Magazine in 1998 in their coverage of Most Important Scientific Discoveries of the Year. He has a Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in animal behavior, genetics, and neurobiology and was a postdoctoral fellow at C.N.R.S. et College de France Institut d'Embryologie.