Past Events

  • 2024 Feb 22

    HEB Spring 2024 Colloquium Series: Dr. Janet Song

    3:00pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Bio Labs 1080
    Janet Song is a HHMI Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Christopher Walsh at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She received her Ph.D. in Genetics with Dr. David Kingsley at Stanford University and her A.B. in Chemical and Physical Biology with a Secondary in Computer Science at Harvard University. Janet is interested in understanding the genetic basis of the human brain from an evolutionary perspective.
  • 2024 Feb 15

    HEB Spring 2024 Colloquium Series: Dr. Ipsita Agarwal

    3:00pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Bio Labs 1080

    Ipsita Agarwal earned her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at Columbia University,and is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. Her research aims to understand the processes by which germline mutations arise, and the functional, phenotypic, and evolutionary consequences of germline mutations in humans and other species.

     

  • 2024 Feb 12

    HEB Spring 2024 Colloquium Series: Dr. Richard She

    3:00pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Geo 102- Haller Hall
    Richard She is a postdoctoral fellow in Jonathan Weissman's lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Science. He is a molecular biologist studying human evolution using stem cell models of great apes.
  • 2024 Feb 08

    HEB Spring 2024 Colloquium Series: Dr. Arbel Harpak

    3:00pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Bio Labs 1080

    Arbel Harpak is an Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology and Population Health at the University of Texas at Austin. His lab studies questions in evolutionary, statistical and population genetics. He holds a B.S. in both mathematics and physics and an M.S. in ecology, evolution and behavior from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, advised by Dr. Guy Sella. He also holds an M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in biology from Stanford University, where he was advised by Dr. Jonathan...

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  • 2024 Feb 05

    HEB Spring 2024 Colloquium Series: Dr. Harald Ringbauer

    3:00pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Geo 102- Haller Hall
    Harald Ringbauer is currently a Group Leader in the Department of Archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. He received his PhD in Population Genetics from IST Austria, and then worked as a Postdoctoral Scientist at the University of Chicago and Harvard University, where he dvelved into Human Genetics, Ancient DNA and Computational Genomics. His primary research focus revolves around past human demography and social structure. Particularly, he has created a new generation of computational tools designed to measure biological relatedness in ancient... Read more about HEB Spring 2024 Colloquium Series: Dr. Harald Ringbauer
  • 2023 Nov 13

    HEB Special Seminar Series talk by Professor Chris Kuzawa

    4:30pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Haller Hall (24 Oxford Street)

    The Department of Human Evolutionary Biology hosts Professor Chris Kuzawa of Northwestern University in a special seminar.

    Talk title: Fetal developmental plasticity as signal-noise problem: Evolutionary and public health perspectives on the intergenerational effects of nutrition 

  • 2023 Apr 25

    HEB Departmental Seminar

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    MCZ Atrium
    Speaker: Sophie Barton, PhD Candidate in HEB
  • 2023 Apr 18

    HEB Departmental Seminar

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    MCZ Atrium
    Speaker: Emily Venable, PhD Candidate in HEB

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