We will have ASHBi Seminar with Dr. Katherine S. Pollard as a lecturer.

Dr. Katherine S. Pollard, Professor of University of California San Francisco and Director of Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology, is a leading scientist in the field of comparative genomics. She pioneered the identification of Human Accelerated Regions (HARs), the fastest evolving regions in the human genome, as part of the Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium project. Dr. Pollard also serves as an advisor to the ENCODE project and as a member of psychENCODE and Zoonomia consortium projects. She will talk about emerging technologies and informatics to understand the genetic background of what makes us human.

If you have any interest in the topic, you are welcome to attend this seminar.

Program

Date:

Monday, 1 April 2024

Time:

14:00 – 15:00 [JST]

Venue:

[ON-SITE ONLY]^*Conference Room (B1F, Faculty of Medicine Bldg. B)

Language:

English

Title

Decoding the Evolutionary Histories and Functions of Human Accelerated Regions

Lecturer

Dr. Katherine S. Pollard
(Director, Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology)
(Professor, University of California San Francisco)
(Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub)

Eligibility

Academic researchers and students

Registration

Pre-registered participants only

Registration Form (Google Form).

Organizer

Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (WPI-ASHBi)

Contact

ASHBi-info[*]mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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