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The Shaol Pozez Memorial Lectureship Series |
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Matthew
Kaplan,
Staff Scientist, Genographic
Project Lead "Jews, Genetics & History" Monday February 8, 2010 7:00pm - The Tucson Jewish Community Center |
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Matthew Kaplan is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a staff scientist in the Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Biotechnology at the University of Arizona. Kaplan serves as Project Lead of the Human Origins Genotyping Laboratory, the research group that performs all public testing for National Geographic & IBM’s Genographic Project. The lab has tested almost 400,000 samples from around the globe since the project’s inception. |
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Kaplan has worked on several research projects using Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA to investigate Jewish population genetics and Jewish population history. In the fall of 1999, he developed the protocols and infrastructure for a collaborative project, run out of Dr. Michael Hammer’s laboratory, between the University of Arizona and Family Tree DNA. This partnership has grown into the largest DNA testing service for genealogists in the world. In his lecture, Kaplan will cover recent research findings from studies of Jewish genetics and Jewish population history. He will review the basic principles of human genetics and the biology behind DNA testing, explaining how DNA testing is performed and how samples are processed in the Human Origins Genotyping Laboratory at the University of Arizona. This lecture will also include an overview of the DNA Shoah Project, a unique, humanitarian effort at the UA that is using forensic technology to reunite families separated by the Holocaust. Following the lecture there will be an open question session. |
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The Shaol
Pozez Memorial Lectureship Series is made possible by the generous support of the Pozez Families & The Pozez Family Fund at the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona The Shaol Pozez Memorial Lectureship Series is sponsored by |
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