What's Now in the IGSP
Jacob's Legacy
IGSP author and Investigator David Goldstein has written a new book called Jacob's Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History. The book describes aspects of Jewish history that have been studied using the genetic legacies carried by living people that call themselves Jews. But how much does the continuation of the Jewish people and of Jewish custom owe to a genetic continuity of the Jews and how much to cultural forces operating independently of hereditary connections?
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IGSP Welcomes the 2008 Summer Fellows!
The Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program, “Explorations in the Genome Sciences”, is sponsored in large part by the National Science Foundation and will begin May 27, 2008. Profiles of the students and the program schedule can be found here here.
Duke Undergrads Get Research Experience
Within a year of coming to Duke as an undergraduate, Lesley Chapman was already exploring ways to control malaria in the lab of IGSP investigator Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi. Read more about Lesley and fellow IGSP undergraduate researcher Sally Liu or watch a video of Lesley talking about her experience.



