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Twentieth Annual Darwin College Lecture Series 2005

CONFLICT

Lecture 2   :   28 January

GENOMIC CONFLICT

David Haig

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Biography

DAVID HAIG is professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, and author of Genomic Imprinting and Kinship. He is an evolutionary geneticist/theorist interested in conflicts and conflict resolution within the genome, with a particular interest in genomic imprinting and relations between parents and offspring.. He was born in Canberra, did undergraduate and work at Macquarie University in Sydney. His doctoral research was a theoretical investigation of the evolution of plant cycles. This work led to an interest in genetic conflicts within the genome and to a theory for the evolution of genomic imprinting in terms of the conflicting interests of maternally and paternally derived genes. After his PhD, David received an Endeavour Fellowship from the Royal Society to work in Oxford where he further developed his ideas on genomic imprinting and developed an interest in the evolution of maternal-fetal relations during human pregnancy. From Oxford, he moved to Harvard, where he was nominated for the Harvard Society of Fellows. At Harvard he continues his interest in conflicts within the genome.

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