Keynote: How hair made the sweaty ape naked
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Start Date
30-4-2025 12:00 PM
End Date
30-4-2025 1:00 PM
Description
Yana Kamberov is an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics at the Perelman School of Medicine where she leads a program to uncover the genetic mechanisms underlying the generation of adaptive human traits that not only differentiate humans from other species but are also essential for human survival. Accordingly, research in the Kamberov lab is focused on the etiology and regeneration of adaptive traits of the skin, which harbors some of the most extreme and physiologically important evolutionary adaptations of our species. Herein, the lab seeks to discover how, when, and why these traits evolved, and to apply this knowledge in the development of therapeutic strategies to regenerate human skin and its critical appendages.
Dr. Kamberov is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania from which she received her Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard University. Prior to joining the Penn faculty, Yana was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Cliff Tabin at Harvard Medical School, with co-mentors Dr. Pardis Sabeti, Dr. Dan Lieberman, and Dr. Bruce Morgan. Her postdoctoral work focused on the genetic drivers of natural and adaptive variation in skin appendage phenotypes within modern humans and within genetically diverged mouse strains.
Embargo Period
5-6-2025
Keynote: How hair made the sweaty ape naked
Philadelphia, PA
Yana Kamberov is an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics at the Perelman School of Medicine where she leads a program to uncover the genetic mechanisms underlying the generation of adaptive human traits that not only differentiate humans from other species but are also essential for human survival. Accordingly, research in the Kamberov lab is focused on the etiology and regeneration of adaptive traits of the skin, which harbors some of the most extreme and physiologically important evolutionary adaptations of our species. Herein, the lab seeks to discover how, when, and why these traits evolved, and to apply this knowledge in the development of therapeutic strategies to regenerate human skin and its critical appendages.
Dr. Kamberov is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania from which she received her Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard University. Prior to joining the Penn faculty, Yana was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Cliff Tabin at Harvard Medical School, with co-mentors Dr. Pardis Sabeti, Dr. Dan Lieberman, and Dr. Bruce Morgan. Her postdoctoral work focused on the genetic drivers of natural and adaptive variation in skin appendage phenotypes within modern humans and within genetically diverged mouse strains.