Dr Selina Brace - National History Museum
Location: Horton Lecture Theatre 1
Abstract: Natural history collections are a valuable source of information. Museum specimens provide a record of the past that can span temporal and geographical ranges. Recent advances in Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies have seen a surge in aDNA studies and large genomic-scale datasets. Here I will be discussing how we recover aDNA from museum samples and how these datasets can be applied to answer questions relating to the relative roles of migration, admixture and acculturation in human populations. The focus will be on the British Isles during a major event in modern human evolution, the transition from a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer society to the Neolithic and farming.
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Host: Professor Elli Leadbeater
We host a number of guest seminars throughout the academic year. This is a great way to learn about current research going on at other universities and research institutions, and to meet and network with other scientists.
