Sebastian Tarleton, Ph.D., was born in Fresno, California. He received his undergraduate education at Brown University, after which he served as a science writer at Newsweek magazine for one year before returning to graduate school at the Université de Nantes in France to complete an interdisciplinary social science-life science doctoral degree. He subsequently won an NIMH post-doctoral fellowship for training and research at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado, following which he taught for six years at the Université Louis Pasteur in the Human Biology Program while also holding research appointments in the Université Louis Pasteur Developmental Behavior Genetics Laboratory and Engineering-Economic Systems Department. Dr. Tarleton is a member of several professional scientific organizations, has published numerous research papers and articles over the years, and has traveled extensively, lecturing at academic institutions throughout Europe, the former Soviet Union, China and Latin America. Dr. Tarleton’s vision for The Sanger Initiative is in the promotion of research for solutions to the economical, racial and political problems of our day via the delivery of high-quality, large-scale resources of lasting value to the global research community.