Dr. Sriram Sankararaman UCLA Departments of Computer Science, Human Genetics, and Computational Medicine http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~sriram/ This talk will be in person as well as being accessible via Zoom. Title: The role of archaic admixture in human evolution […]
Dr. Asher Rosinger Department of Biobehavioral Health, Penn State https://hhd.psu.edu/contact/asher-rosinger This talk will be presented via Zoom. Abstract: Dr. Asher Rosinger will discuss one of humanity's oldest and increasingly important questions, how do populations meet their water needs in areas with water problems and how do these strategies affect health and well-being. This talk will discuss how […]
Dr Amanda Lea, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University http://lea-lab.org/index.html Title: Lifestyle change and health in the Turkana of northwest Kenya Abstract: The environments experienced by individuals living “modern”, “urban”, or “Western” lifestyles are deeply diverged from the ancestral selection pressures that have shaped human genomes through evolutionary time. Consequently, many have hypothesized that this […]
