Noted cancer genetics researcher to speak

Sir Walter Bodmer, an internationally recognized researcher in cancer genetics and the genetics of human populations, will be featured speaker at the James F. Crow lecture Tuesday, April 18.

Bodmer’s free presentation, “The Molecular and Cellular Genetics of Colon Cancer,” is scheduled at 3:30 p.m. in the State Historical Society Auditorium.

Currently, Bodmer is principal of Hertford College in Oxford and is joint head, with his wife, Julia Bodmer, of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Cancer and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University.

His now-classic text with Luca Cavalli-Sforza, “The Genetics of Human Populations,” was first published in 1971.