Using genetic admixture to study normal-range traits and complex disease (Laurel N. Pearson)
Lecture: “Using genetic admixture to study normal-range traits and complex disease”
Laurel N. Pearson, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scholar
The Pennsylvania State University Department of Anthropology
520 Carpenter Building University Park, PA 16802
Biosketch: Laurel Pearson is a genetic anthropologist. She received her PhD in genetics from the Pennsylvania State University in 2012 and is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Professor Mark Shriver at Penn State. Her research investigates variation in normal-range human phenotypes and risk of complex disease, with a current focus on admixture mapping of preterm birth and hypertension in African Americans.She lives in Lemont, Pennsylvania with her husband, cat, and two chickens.
When? Tuesday 06/05/2014 from 2:00PM.
Where: “Sala de reuniões 10º. Andar, Bloco II – InCor”