Human Diversity Network Meeting

olaf January 9, 2018

We have organized a meeting on Human diversity with special focus on genetics taking place on Monday, Feb. 5th 2018 here at Uppsala University.

Find the schedule and more detailed information below.

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One last minute news flash before the old year ends: Mattias got appointed as a Wallenberg Scholar for the coming 5 years. Big Congrats!!!

Alexandra Coutinho is defening her PhD thesis entitled “Where our feet have taken us. Examples of human contact, migration, and adaptation as revealed by ancient DNA” on the 17th of January at 1:15 pm, at Lindhalsalen, EBC, Uppsala University.

Helena spoke about Stone Age Scandinavia from an archaeogenetic perspective at the conference for Archeogenetics and Genetic Genealogy. Her talk can be seen here (at 1h 12min).

Mattias gave a short interview (in Swedish) about the health consequences associated with the transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers.

On October 17^th, 2019 Magdalena received a 3 year research grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project “Gotland in the 3^rd millennium BCE”…Big Congrats!

Magdalena started a 2-year Post-doc with Helena in April 2019 working on the Alvastra project.

A new video about our work on ancient Scandinavians can be found on our Media page.

Rita is giving a talk at the 13th Nordic Conference on the Application of Scientific Methods in Archaeology (SMIA). More info about the conference can be found here.

A new year has started! We wish all our colleagues, collaborators, families and friends a happy and successful 2019!

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Sánchez-Quinto et al. PNAS
Naidoo et al. BMC Genomics
Günther et al. PLoS Biology
Fraser et al. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Schlebusch et al. Science
Hollfelder et al. PLoS Genetics
Owers et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Goldberg et al. PNAS
Günther and Jakobsson, Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

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