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Sixth Annual HAI Darwin Day Lecture - 2007

in association with

The Genetic History of Ireland: Natural Selection and Human Migration to the Atlantic Edge

This year's lecture is given by Dan Bradley, Associate Professor, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin.

Professor Bradley is highly active in the fascinating field of genetic studies of human migration patterns. The following biographical information comes from the LeCHE project website. (LeCHE stands for Lactase persistance and the early Culural History of Europe.):

Dr Dan Bradley is a senior lecturer. He has active research in: aDNA (2001, Nature); genetic diversity within and between genomes (2002, Science); Y-chromosome diversity and Irish human origins (Nature 2000); origins of livestock as discerned using genetic diversity (Nature Genetics, 2003; Nature Reviews Genetics, 2003; PNAS, 2001); development of detection methods for the presence of animal material in livestock feedstuffs; examination of selection around genes affected by the domestication process in livestock. He is a former member of a Wellcome Trust Panel in Bioarchaeology and jury for the European Young Scientists Competition. He supervised 9 students successfully. He has a total of 89 publications (62 in international scientific journals); he is primary or principal/corresponding author of 50 of these; and elicited ~2000 citations in total.