Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNA

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• Professor Martin Sikora from Section for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen
• Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00
• Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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Host - Charlotte Houldcroft

Over the past decade, ancient genomics has transformed studies of the evolutionary history of our species. As of 2024, population-scale DNA sequencing datasets of thousands of ancient humans are available. These large-scale datasets have facilitated not only in-depth studies of the human hosts, but increasingly also their associated pathogens. In this seminar, I will discuss what we have learned about infectious disease history and pathogen evolution by mining these datasets for ancient pathogen DNA . I will cover examples from our recent work on the origins and impact of the plague in Stone Age Scandinavia, as well as on genomic paleoepidemiology of 1,313 ancient Eurasians spanning 10,000 years of human evolution.

This talk is part of the Genetics Seminar series.

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