The Department of Human Genetics Presents the 2015 Marjorie I. and Bernard A. Mtichell Conference on Human Genetics

Everything Old is New Again: Frontiers in Ancient DNA Research

Friday, May 22, 2015
1:00-5:00pm

Reception to follow immediately
Oriental Institute of the Unviersity of Chicago
1155 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

David Reich, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical Schoo
"Towards a New History and Geography of Human Genes Informed by Ancient DNA"

Matthias Meyer, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
"Accessing Small Quantities of Highly Damaged DNA"

Tina Warinner, Ph.D.
Oklahoma State University
"Ancient Oral Microbiomes and Human Health"

Alan Cooper, Ph.D.
University of Adelaide
"Ancient DNA as a Window to Paleoecology and the Biotic Response to Past Climate Change"