Dr. Elaine Ostrander is the Chief and Distinguished Investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She received her B.S. degree from the University of Washington (1981), and her Ph.D. from the Oregon Health & Science University (1987). Ostrander continued her postdoctoral training at Harvard University. A few years later, she joined the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs at University of California, Berkeley, where she began the canine genome project. In 2004, she joined the NIH and her laboratory studies the domestic dog as a model organism to understand the heritability of traits and disease susceptibility. For her scientific contributions, she was named NIH Distinguished Investigator (2011). Visit her lab website and learn more about Ostrander’s research.
Elaine Ostrander provides an overview of canine genetics, and explains how scientists are using genetics to decipher the molecular basis of different traits such as height and cancer risk. (Talk recorded in December 2017)
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