Human Population and Evolutionary Genetics

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Lluis Quintana-Murci
Lluis Quintana-Murci received his BSc in Biology at the University of Barcelona (Spain), and his Ph.D. in Population Genetics at the University of Pavia (Italy). He heads the Unit of Human Evolutionary Genetics at Institut Pasteur since 2007. He is a human population geneticist whose research focuses on the use of genomic data to infer the past demographic history of human populations and to dissect the different forms in which natural selection can act on the human genome. His team is especially interested in exploring the extent to which pathogens have exerted pressures on innate immunity genes. Over the last years, his team has also adopted a systems immunology approach to understand the different factors (genetic, epigenetic, environmental, etc.) that drive immune response variation between individuals and populations. Lluis Quintan-Murci is professor at College de France.

Etienne Patin
Etienne Patin received his MSc in Biology and Genetics and his PhD in Population Genetics at the University Paris VII (France). After a postdoctoral training in epidemiological genetics at the Necker Hospital (France), he joined Institut Pasteur as a CNRS Research Scientist. He is a population geneticist whose main interests range from the study of past human demography, with a focus on Africa, to the methodological aspects of demographic inference, and, more recently, systems immunology. One of his main research interests is the occurrence and extent of admixture between modern human populations and its potential adaptive nature.

Javier Mendoza Revilla
Javier is a doctor in human genetics, researcher in the Genetics of Human Evolution unit of the Pasteur Institute and member of the CANDELA consortium. He is your community manager for this MOOC.