Hopi Hoekstra, PhD, Harvard University’s Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and curator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, will deliver the next presentation in the 2018 Senior Vice Chancellor’s Laureate Lecture Series, a yearlong program featuring top biomedical researchers in their fields. Hoekstra’s talk, “The Genetic Basis of Parental Care,” will be delivered at 4 p.m. on Thursday, September 27, in Scaife Hall, Lecture Room 6.

This seminar series is open to the public, including all interested University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University faculty, students, and staff. Arthur S. Levine, MD, Pitt’s senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean of Medicine, will introduce Hoekstra and lead the discussion following the lecture.