Photo of T.G. Schurr with Men and Boys from Village near Trabzon, Turkey, during fieldwork in 2005. Photo Credit: Omer Gölçümen

Laboratory

The physical location of the LMAP on the Penn campus and its mailing address are provided below. Contact information for LMAP Director Theodore Schurr has also been provided. Please reach out to us about any questions you might have about the information provided in this website.

Join Us

We welcome new members to the lab, whether graduate or undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, or even high school students seeking a summer internship. Please contact Dr. Schurr about research opportunities in the laboratory. As illustrated in the Team section of the website, and as evidenced by the photograph from Turkey that is shown above, the laboratory is actively involved in a number of exciting projects that provide good opportunities to learn anthropological genetics methods, pursue undergraduate theses or graduate dissertations, and contribute to the research findings in published form.

Graduate Admissions

The Penn Anthropology Department will be accepting applications for admission to its PhD Program for the 2023-24 Academic Year starting on 1 October 2022. The closing date for graduate admissions will be 15 December 2022. Should you have questions about the admissions process, please contact Dr. Megan Kassabaum, the Graduate Chair (mkass@sas.upenn.edu), or Ms. Marie Manski, the Graduate Coordinator (manski@sas.upenn.edu), about them.  Additional information about the Anthropology Graduate Program is available on the departmental website (https://anthropology.sas.upenn.edu/graduate).

Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
421 University Museum
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6398, USA
Tel: 215-573-2656

Theodore G. Schurr, Ph.D., Director
Department of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
432 University Museum
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6398, USA
Tel: 215-573-7632
Email: tgschurr@sas.upenn.edu

The Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology at Penn (LMAP) is housed in Room 421 in the Department of Anthropology, which is located in the Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.

Built in 1889, the Museum opened as the Free Museum of Science and Art. It houses two floors of public galleries, the beautiful Widener Lecture Room, the Elkins Library (now Museum Archives), and a suite of laboratories and offices surrounding an Italian courtyard garden that is entered through an Asian-style gate. The Museum is one of the first fully electric public buildings in Philadelphia.

The Penn Museum respectfully acknowledges that it is situated on Lenapehoking, the ancestral and spiritual homeland of the Unami Lenape.