There are two parts to the day of December 6th. Please book seperately for each part to avoid missing a place in this event.
Tickets will be available at the door if seats are available.
Journey of Your Genes - Reveal Lecture
In October 2009, one thousand people crowded into the University of Melbourne's Bio21 Institute to participate in the Genographic Project, with hundreds more purchasing kits afterward. In this reveal lecture, Dr Spencer Wells, leading population geneticist and director of the Genographic Project from National Geographic and IBM, will talk about the science behind the project, the common origins of our cohort of 100 free participants and the diversity of their ancestral journey.
Free event - book your seat here
Journey of Humanity
The afternoon Journey of Humanity event will no longer be running on Sunday afternoon."...a unique opportunity to highlight the incredible diversity of Melbourne's population and to celebrate that diversity. Our family history is written in our genes and Melbourne's migratory history started well over 60,000 years ago"
Professor Philip Batterham, Chairman: Evolution - the Festival