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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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.