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Dan Hartl is a biology professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is also a principal investigator at the Hartl Laboratory at Harvard University. His research interests are focused on evolutionary genomics, molecular evolution, and population genetics.

Early life
Hartl was born in 1943 and spent his childhood in Antigo, Wisconsin. He has three brothers and grew up with foster kids living in his home. Hartl's father worked in a cheese factory and his mother worked nights as a sous chef.

After high school he enrolled in an extension of the University of Wisconsin at Marathon County Center in Wausau, Wisconsin. However, he just barely had enough money for tuition. His brothers chipped in their own money to buy him a car so he could commute the 35 miles to school.

Education
For his graduate school, Hartl attended the University of Wisconsin. For his doctoral work, Hartl studied Drosophila (a group of insects) and investigated "the mystery of segregation distortion."

He did postdoctoral work at the University of California in Berkeley. Prior to working at Harvard, he held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota, Purdue University, and Washington University in St. Louis.

Published works

 * Daniel L Hartl, Andrew G Clark, Andrew G Clark. Principles of population genetics, 4th ed. 1997. Sinauer Associates (Sunderland, Massachusetts).
 * H Ochman, A S Gerber, D L Hartl. "Genetic applications of an inverse polymerase chain reaction". Genetics. November 1, 1988 vol. 120 no. 3 621-623.
 * Hartl, D. L. A primer of population genetics. 1988. Sinauer Associates (Sunderland, Massachusetts).  ISBN: 9780878933013.