Spencer Wells will speak at UTSA on March 1.
(Feb. 26, 2018) -- The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Faculty Center will present esteemed geneticist, anthropologist, author and entrepreneur Spencer Wells on Thursday, March 1, 2018 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Student Union Retama Auditorium (SU 2.02.02) on the Main Campus. The event is free and open to the community.
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Wells' talk, entitled "Sparking Curiosity: Genetics, Big Data & Our Human Story" will examine how our DNA informs the way our ancestors populated the planet and how research can change industry and perceptions.
A Q&A with Wells will follow the talk. Audience members may submit their questions via Twitter using the hashtag #utsageno.
During his decade-long tenure as an Explorer-In-Residence with the National Geographic Society, Wells initiated and directed the Genographic Project, a multi-year genetic anthropology study that aims to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples. This massive worldwide research initiative and citizen science project effectively launched the consumer genomics industry as we know it today.
Wells graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Texas at Austin, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and conducted postdoctoral work at Stanford and Oxford. He has appeared in numerous documentary films and is the author of three books, The Journey of Man, Deep Ancestry and Pandora’s Seed.
His work has taken him to more than 100 countries, where he has collaborated with everyone from heads of government and Fortune 500 corporations, to tribal chieftains eking out a precarious living in places as remote as Chad, Tajikistan and Papua New Guinea.
He lives in Austin,where he is founder and CEO of consumer genomics startup Insitome, an adjunct professor at the University of Texas and owner of the iconic blues club Antone’s.
UTSA's Faculty Center fosters the professional development of the university’s researchers and professors. The Center is a partnership between the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Support, UTSA Office of the Vice President for Research and UTSA Libraries.
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