Welcome to a Horizons lecture Tuesday 31. October in Auditorium 1, Realfagsbygget.

Refreshments will be served from 16.00,  prior to the lecture.

Find the event on UiB’s web pages: http://www.uib.no/matnat/110554/eske-willerslev-hunting-past-ancient-genomics

Join the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/359810571128721/

About Willerslev:

Eske Willerslev is an evolutionary geneticist. He is particularly known for sequencing the first ancient human genome, for conducting human population genomic studies across the world, and for establishing the field of environmental DNA, where modern and ancient DNA from higher plants and animals are obtained directly from environmental samples.

At the age of 33, Willerslev became Full Professor at University of Copenhagen – the youngest in Denmark at the time.

Dr. Eske Willerslev was one of the early pioneers of the study of ancient DNA, and today he remains at the forefront of an increasingly competitive field.

He led the first successful sequencing of an ancient human genome, that of a 4,000-year-old Greenlander. His research on a 24,000-year-old Siberian skeleton revealed an unexpected connection between Europeans and Native Americans.

About the lecture:

Recent years have seen the field of ancient DNA moving from the sequencing of short fragments of mitochondrial DNA from bones and teeth of Holocene age to full genomes and metagenomes from skeleton remains and sediments dating to the mid Pleistocene. This transition has revolutionized our ability to understand the past both in terms of human history but also megafaunal extinctions and changes of biological communities.

Willerslev will provide a number of examples as to how ancient genomics can be used to address questions of the deeper and more shallow past.

Everybody is welcome!

Beste helsing

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Jens Helleland Ådnanes
Kommunikasjonsrådgjevar
Det matematisk-naturvitskaplege fakultet
Universitetet i Bergen
http://www.uib.no/personer/Jens.Helleland.Ådnanes