Sept. 2, 2005

Events at NC State University
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C. Clark Cockerham Lecture Features World-Renowned Anthropologist

What: North Carolina State University’s departments of Statistics and Genetics and its Bioinformatics Research Center will sponsor the C. Clark Cockerham Lecture on Sept. 30. The lecture, given by Dr. Svante Pääbo, is entitled “An Ape Perspective on the Human Genome.”

Who: Dr. Svante Pääbo, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, is world renowned for his innovative research on the genetic evolution of humans, great apes and other species. Pääbo was the first to isolate and clone DNA from ancient humans (Egyptian mummies) and later from Neanderthal bone, establishing that Neanderthals were not ancestors to modern Europeans.

When: The lecture will take place at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30. Refreshments will be offered at 3:30 p.m.

Where: 2215 Williams Hall, located on NC State’s north campus

Cost: Free and open to the public

Contact: For more information, contact Debra Hibbard, Bioinformatics Research Center, 919/515-1932, or Dr. Bruce Weir, 919/515-3574.

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