Dr. Priya Moorjani, UC Berkeley Title: Uncovering the Past: Using Genetic Data to Understand Human History & Evolution Abstract: The focus of my research group is to study genetic data from present-day and ancient individuals to learn about human history, evolution and disease. To this end, we combine population genetics theory, large-scale data analysis and […]

Dr. Karthik Shekhar, University of California, Berkeley Abstract: Neurons, the building blocks of the brain, are diverse morphologically, molecularly and functionally. My research group studies neural diversity in the visual system, which comprises the brain regions involved in processing visual information (e.g. retina, thalamus, visual cortex). Using single-cell transcriptomics, we have recently mapped out a […]