Wolfgang Enard

Wolfgang Enard is professor for anthropology and human genomics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. Until 2012 he was in the group of Svante Pääbo at the MPI in Leipzig 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 mainly focusing on generating and using primate iPS cells in combination with scRNA-seq to decipher the evolution of molecular circuitries.