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SUMMARY:Understanding domestication in the genomic era - Dr. Laurent Frant
 z  (1\,2)
DTSTART:20210312T131500Z
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CONTACT:Laura Courto
DESCRIPTION:1 Palaeogenomics Group\, Department of Veterinary Sciences\, L
 udwig Maximilian University\, Munich\, Germany\n\n2 School of Biological a
 nd Chemical Sciences\, Queen Mary University of London\, London\, UK\n\nBe
 ginning with dogs over 15\,000 years ago\, the domestication of plants and
  animals has played a key role in the development of modern societies. Giv
 en its fundamental importance\, a vast literature from a wide variety of a
 cademic disciplines has explored and explained the origins of domesticatio
 n. For example\, domestication has fascinated evolutionary biologists for 
 decades because of the dramatic impact that artificial selection played in
  the evolution of traits in both domestic plants and animals. \nGenomic in
 formation\, extracted from both modern and archaeological samples have had
  a tremendous impact on our understanding of animal domestication\, not on
 ly allowing us to better retrace their origin but also to understand funda
 mental evolutionary processes (e.g. the role of gene-flow from wild popula
 tions). Here I will present novel ancient genomics data-sets from world wi
 de sampling of pigs\, dogs and chickens how this new source of data is rev
 olutionising our understanding of their domestication history.\n\nLaurent 
 Frantz obtained his PhD from Wageningen University in 2015\, and spent thr
 ee years at the University of Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow. His is n
 ow a Professor of Palaeogenomics at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Lo
 ndon and a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. Laurent pla
 yed a major role in the first analysis of the pig genome\, the first recom
 bination map for the pig genome and wrote some of the first papers using l
 arge scale modern and ancient genomics to address question related to spec
 iation\, and pig\, dogs and chickens domestication. His group is also invo
 lved in multiple conservation genetics projects focusing on ungulates spec
 ies in Island Southeast Asia. Laurent is the holder of two Natural Environ
 mental Council research grants (NERC) and an ERC starting grant entitled: 
 "Linking livestock genetic diversity with three thousand years of agricult
 ural crises and resilience”. 
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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