My research included a trip to the lab.
Curious to see how DNA is sequenced and analyzed, the Hap Map project was the right time for a field trip.

I use the Genographic Project's lab kits and data, so I asked Matt Kaplan, lab manager for the project, if I could visit and have a tour of the facilities.

I spent three days at the Tucson, Arizona, location observing the entire process. A very valuable, inside look at how a high tech genomic lab works.

The "Medical School Hap Map" is a tribute to the University of Minnesota’s expansion of multicultural diversity in the school. Medicine serves an increasingly diverse society and medical students are learning to work in a diverse community of colleagues and to understand that we are part of a global health system.

Dr. Deborah E. Powell, M.D., Dean of the Medical School, commissioned me to depict the student population showing the diversity and global reach of the school.

For most of the twentieth century, students at the Medical School were predominately male with Northern European ancestry. The "Hap Map" shows migration of the haplogroups from prehistory and current time.

The smaller, darker, map depicts the pre-1980 populations. Since then, male and female students migrating from all over the world to Minnesota have come to the University. The top map shows the journey of these groups.