Researchers are calling on colleagues around the world to help examine archival specimens of mosquitoes to get a better understanding of the ongoing threat of malaria.
As the inaugural holder of the joint endowed chair between the faculties of Health Sciences and Social Sciences, Poinar will continue his work in and expand the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre.
The mammoth travelled through northwestern Canada and Alaska over the course of her lifetime, which ended when she encountered some of the earliest people to have traveled across the Bering Land Bridge.