What is the difference between the DNA Discovery Center and the Pritzker Laboratory?
Kevin Feldheim: The DNA Discovery Center is actually the public face of this facility. It is the exhibition part. That includes DNA basics — the shape of DNA, where it’s found. The Pritzker Lab itself has been in existence for many, many years, behind the scenes. The Pritzker family was kind enough to give us an endowment. A lot of the things that we purchase in the lab are from that endowment and the Pritzker Lab was so-named. MR: What is the goal of the lab? KF: We have many, many projects going on in the lab. Since I’ve been here, we’ve trained 184 users from 31 different countries. We’re doing a multitude of things. We’re looking at relationships — but across many levels. I’m looking at relatedness between individuals. We have people looking at relatedness between populations, between species, between families — all the way up to between different phyla. What we’re doing in the lab is adding to the tree of life, essentially, and looking at the relationships of all species on ear
