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Dr. Janet Song is an incoming Assistant Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, joining July 2025. Her research focuses on using genetics and genomics to understand human evolution, particularly neural specializations impacting cognition, social behavior, and motor control, as well as how these changes relate to modern neurodevelopmental/neuropsychiatric diseases. The Song Lab at Harvard will integrate experimental and computational approaches from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and computer science. The lab’s location is the Peabody Museum, 5th Floor, Cambridge, MA.
Research themes include identifying human-specific genetic variants, studying their roles in brain evolution, and exploring links between evolutionary changes and diseases like autism and schizophrenia. The lab also develops tools such as human-chimpanzee tetrapaid stem cell lines to study gene regulation in species comparisons. Students and postdoctoral candidates are encouraged to contact Dr. Song directly for collaboration opportunities.
No scientific awards are explicitly listed in the provided text, but her work reflects significant contributions to evolutionary genetics. The lab is recruiting across all levels, including undergraduates, graduate students, and staff scientists, emphasizing collaboration and innovation.
