Junior Research Fellow Elise Burton (SCR), will present a talk entitled: ‘Religious Minorities and Human Genetics in the Middle East’.
Elise is currently the Associates’ Research Fellow at Newnham College. She earned her BA from the University of California, Berkeley, achieving High Honors in two subjects, Middle Eastern Studies and Integrative Biology (specializing in evolutionary genetics). Her undergraduate research focused on the teaching of evolutionary biology in the state education systems of Iran, Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, she completed her PhD in History & Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University with a thesis on the history of human genetics research in Iran, Turkey, and Israel from the First World War to the present.
All staff, students, and senior members are very warmly invited to attend the Pudding Seminars. To allow people to get to 2pm appointments, please note that coffee and cake will be available from 1 o’clock with the Seminar starting promptly at 1.15pm. Details of all our seminars can be found at: https://newn.cam.ac.uk/research/pudding-seminars/forthcoming-pudding-seminars/