WEnard

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Wolfgang Enard is a junior group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He works in the group of Svante Pääbo on genetic differences between humans and apes. He worked on comparing gene expression patterns between humans and chimpanzees, was part of the international chimpanzee sequencing consortium and studied the evolution of FOXP2, a gene involved in speech and language development. Currently he is focusing on using mouse models to study specific genetic changes that took place during human evolution, such as two human-specific amino acid changes in FOXP2.