Dr. Evelyn Jagoda will present their talk Investigations into the Adaptive Value and Biological Consequences of Positively-Selected Neanderthal Introgressed Genetic Variation in Modern Humans on Friday, December 3 at 2 pm as part of the 2021 Fall Anthropology Colloquia Speaker Series.  You can access the talk here.  You can obtain the passcode by emailing Dr. Ian Wallace at iwallace@unm.edu

Dr. Evelyn Jagoda recently finished their PhD in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University. Their PhD research focused on connecting genetic variation that entered the human gene pool via interbreeding with Neanderthals with the biological and fitness impact of this genetic contribution on modern humans both in the past and today. Their work integrates population genetics approaches with cutting-edge high-throughput functional genetics approaches to identify putatively adaptively introgressed genetic sequences and to explore their effects on genetic regulation and cellular phenotypes. Evelyn is currently a Research Scientist at the Broad Institute where they continue to work to connect genetic variation to biology by building maps of non-coding regulation of the human genome. 

Hosted by the UNM Department of Anthropology, the  Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, and the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII)  the Department Colloquia Speaker Series will continue in the Spring 2022 semester.  Talks from this years series are available on our You Tube for your viewing.