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EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics

Event category: EMBL

Date: September 15, 2026 to September 18, 2026

Event website: https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/EES26-10/

Location: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual, EMBL Advanced Training Centre

Organizers:

Mateja Hajdinjak, The Francis Crick Institute and Max Planck for Evolutionary Anthropology, UK
Choongwon Jeong, Seoul National University, South Korea
Maanasa Raghavan, University of Chicago, USA
Pontus Skoglund, The Francis Crick Institute, UK

 

Event description

This meeting will involve scientists from population genetics, bioinformatics, microbiology, anthropology, archaeology, and history and will strengthen future interactions in this young research field that is already changing the way we think about our past and will shape how we study genetic variation in the future.

 

Session topics

  • Our closest living and extinct relatives
  • Reconstructing the genetic history of human populations
  • Research practices, data curation, and ethical considerations in paleogenomics
  • New methods, avenues, tools, and resources for paleogenomic data analysis
  • From selection signals to function, health, and disease
  • Evolution of human pathogens and microbiomes

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