Morrison Institute Winter Colloquium
The Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies Winter Colloquium is a lecture series for students, the Stanford community, and the general public that presents the latest scientific findings in demography, epidemiology, genetics, and other areas in the field of population and resource studies. Lectures are held in Room T-175 of Herrin Hall on the Stanford University campus on Wednesdays of the Winter Quarter at 4:15 PM.
2012 Morrison Institute Winter Colloquium:
Jan.11: Jennifer Gardy, British Columbia Center for Disease Control and the University of British Columbia: A, C, T, ID: Using Genome Sequencing as a Tool to Understand Outbreaks of Infectious Disease
Jan. 18: Eran Bendavid, Stanford University: Development Assistance and Adult Mortality in Africa
Jan. 25: Cameron Campbell, Emory University: Determinants of Descent Line Growth, Decline, and Extinction in Historical China
Feb. 1: Nan Li, The United Nations: Projections of the World’s Populations: Deterministic and Probabilistic
Feb. 8: Joanna Mountain, 23 and Me: Medical and Historical Applications of a Population Variation Database of Over 125,000 Individuals
Feb. 15: Kevin Laland, University of St.Andrews, Scotland: Animal Social Learning and the Evolution of Culture
Feb. 22: Jonathan Pritchard: University of Chicago: Population Variation and Epigenetic Controls of Gene Expression
Feb. 29: Vanessa Hayes, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego: Human Genome Diversity within Southern Africa
Mar. 7: Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: Aboriginal Australians, the First Human Explorers
For past years’ Colloquia, click here.
