Cassandra Extavour Brief Biography

Cassandra Extavour is a Canadian American geneticist, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and a classical singer. Her research has focused on evolutionary and developmental genetics. She is known for demonstrating that germ cells engage in cell to cell competition before becoming a gamete, which implicates that natural selection can affect and change genetic material before adult sex reproduction takes place. She is also currently the Director of EDEN, a national research collaborative that is pushing scientists to use more than Drosophila as their model organisms in the lab to create diverse study populations.

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