Professor Andrew John Pask is an
epigeneticist and head of the Thylacine Integrated Genomic Restoration Research (TIGRR) Laboratory at the School of BioSciences in the University of Melbourne. He is known for his work on the project to resurrect the extinct
thylacine
The thylacine ( , or , also ) (''Thylacinus cynocephalus'') is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. The last known live animal was captured in 1930 in Tasma ...
, a
marsupial
Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a ...
colloquially known as the "Tasmanian tiger".
Pask graduated with a PhD from
La Trobe University
La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora. The university was established in 1964, becoming the third university in the state of Victoria a ...
in 1999, for his thesis "The evolution of genes in the sex determining pathway".
References
External links
*https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/4401-andrew-pask
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the University of Melbourne
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La Trobe University alumni