Our next meeting:

Tuesday, September 20th 2016

JJ’s Bistro

3447 Waialae Avenue in Kaimuki (between 9th and 10th Avenues)

Social/dinner hour from 6 pm: talk starts 7 pm

Everybody welcome: no admission charge

Note that JJ's is BYOB, but Tamura’s liquor store is right across the street.
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Professor Rebecca Cann

 

On the DNA Trail....

Can the Human Genome Explain what Makes Us Uniquely Human?

 

 

Dr. Rebecca Cann is a Professor of Genetics at the UH-Manoa.  She received her BS (Genetics) and PhD  (Physical Anthropology) degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.  Her initial research centered on understanding the process by which modern humans emerged as a species and spread out of Africa, using Mitochondrial DNA. 

Her more recent research has focussed on potential extinctions of endangered bird populations in several locations, including Hawaii and Sri Lanka.