Colloquium Lectures

The first HEB Colloquium of the semester is with guest speaker Dr. James Noonan, Albert E. Kent Professor of Genetics and Professor of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine. Talk Title: Understanding the genetic drivers of uniquely human traits Abstract...

Dr. Franck Polleux is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind, Brain, Behavior Institute. Throughout his career, Dr Polleux has focused on the identification of the molecular mechanisms...

This talk is cancelled, however, we will be rescheduling for Fall! Dr. Carrie Mongle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Turkana Basin Institute at Stony Brook University. Her research aims to reconstruct the major trends and...

Dr. Jonathan H. Epstein , a veterinarian and epidemiologist, is a global leader in developing strategic partnerships among government, private sector, NGO and academic research institutions. For over 25 years, he has applied an evidence-based...

Dr. Rachna Reddy is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Utah and current Radcliffe Fellow. Talk Title: The Nature of Adolescence Abstract: Humans have a multi-year life stage that begins with pubertal onset and ends with a shift into...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...