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SUMMARY:Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput sc
 reening for ancient pathogen DNA - Professor Martin Sikora from Section fo
 r Geogenetics\, University of Copenhagen  
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CONTACT:Caroline Newnham
DESCRIPTION:Over the past decade\, ancient genomics has transformed studie
 s of the evolutionary history of our species. As of 2024\, population-scal
 e DNA sequencing datasets of thousands of ancient humans are available. Th
 ese large-scale datasets have facilitated not only in-depth studies of the
  human hosts\, but increasingly also their associated pathogens. In this s
 eminar\, I will discuss what we have learned about infectious disease hist
 ory and pathogen evolution by mining these datasets for ancient pathogen D
 NA. I will cover examples from our recent work on the origins and impact o
 f the plague in Stone Age Scandinavia\, as well as on genomic paleoepidemi
 ology of 1\,313 ancient Eurasians spanning 10\,000 years of human evolutio
 n.\n\n
LOCATION:Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom
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