Colloquium Lectures

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Moeller, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University Abstract: Abstract: Mammals harbor complex gut bacterial communities that are deeply integrated with their hosts’ phenotypes and fitness, but the...

Speaker: Dr. Nathan Thompson, Associate Professor of Anatomy, New York Institute of Technology

Speaker: Dr. Damian Blasi, Harvard University Dept of Human Evolutionary Biology

Speaker: Dr. Sahin Naqvi, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, Chemical Systems Biology

Speaker: Dr. Glennis Logsdon, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Genome Sciences

Speaker: Dr. Hakhamanesh Mostafavi, Stanford University, Postdoctoral Scholar in Genetics

Speaker: Dr. Jessica Thompson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University Title: Paleoanthropology and Paleoarchaeology in the southernmost Rift of eastern Africa Abstract: The East African Rift Valley System is famous for fossil and...

Speaker: Dr. Enquye Negash, Postdoctoral Scientist at the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, George Washington University Title: " Modern African ecosystems as analogues: Implications for hominin environments" Abstract: Environmental...

Speaker: Dr. Scott Blumenthal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon Abstract: A fundamental challenge of human evolutionary studies is understanding the role of climatic and ecosystem change in shaping hominin biology and behavior...

Title: Unlocking the secrets of the sweaty, naked ape: A genetic roadmap to the developmental origins, evolutionary history, and regenerative potential of human hair and sweat glands. Abstract: The skin and its major resident appendages, hair follicles...