Evolutionary geneticist to give Discovery Lecture
Svante Pääbo, Ph.D
Sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics, the lecture will be held at 4 p.m., on Thursday, May 6, in 208 Light Hall.
Named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2007, Pääbo is regarded as one of the founders of paleogenetics, a field that uses genetics to study early humans and other ancient populations.
Pääbo is perhaps best known for his role leading the team that completed the first draft of the Neanderthal genome
For a complete schedule of the Discovery Lecture series and archived video of previous lectures, go to www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/discoveryseries.