Date:
Thursday, February 8, 2024, 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 Pritchard as a Stanford Center for Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG) fellow. Before joining UT Austin, Harpak was a Simons Foundation Fellow in Dr. Molly Przeworski’s lab at Columbia University.