Wolfgang Enard

Wolfgang Enard is professor for anthropology and human genetics 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 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.