Molecular Biology and Genetics departmental seminar on March 12, 2025 at 3:30 p.m.
Our speakers Eva-Maria Geigl and Thierry Grange are renowned experts in archaeogenetics (study of ancient DNA) and they will talk about the peopling of Europe nearly 38.000 years ago. You may already know that gene flow from the Anatolian farmers constitute a major contribution to the present day European populations. In addition, our speakers first demonstrated -based on genomic data- that homeland of cats is our part of the world possibly encompassing Anatolian peninsula. You are welcome to watch the Ted-Ed video:
The history of the world according to cats – Eva-Maria Geigl (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsj-hDW9bS8).
Please no worries, it will not be a technical genetics presentation. Rather, it will be like a historical account of Paleolithic population movements. But of course, the presentation includes fascinating facts about how science succeeded in recovering ancient DNA as well as how genetic analysis became a mainstream tool in addition to fossils and written records to decipher historical events. Please remember that ancient DNA field was recognized with a Nobel prize in 2022 (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2022/summary/).