Professor Turi King

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Professor Turi King is a scientist, presenter, speaker and author who is passionate about communicating science to the public. Turi uses genetics in the fields of forensics, history and archaeology. She is perhaps best known her work “cracking one of the biggest forensic DNA cases in history” (Globe and Mail, February 2013) leading the genetic analysis that identified the remains of King Richard III. Turi started her career in archaeology, reading for a degree in Archaeology & Anthropology at Cambridge. She then went to study at the Genetics Department at the University of Leicester, to read for an MSc in Molecular Genetics. She then studied for a PhD in Molecular Genetics on the relationship between the Y chromosome & British surnames, combining forensic DNA techniques with history and genealogy. Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, who invented DNA fingerprinting, was one of her PhD advisors.