Speaker: Dr. Dan Nebert BA,MS,MD

Dr. Dan Nebert will be on hand to address the topic:  Everything You Wanted To Know About Evolution But Were Afraid To Ask.

DANIEL W. NEBERT, BA, MS, MD, completed pediatrics training at UCLA Medical Center and then postdoctoral fellowship in the National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, MD). For the past four decades, he has studied evolutionary genomics basic science and clinical genetics at the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development while as a professor at the University Cincinnati Medical Center and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital (Ohio). His primary research theme has always been: “Given the same dose of a drug (e.g. phenytoin, valproic acid), or the same exposure to an environmental agent (e.g., cigarette smoke, cadmium), why do any two individuals respond differently?” He is author of more than 640 publications in the scientific literature, has given numerous talks to school kids and adult lay groups, and has written many dozens of invited “Opinion” articles for The Cincinnati  Enquirer newspaper, and several now for the Oregonian newspaper.  He lives in Charbonneau for part of each year.