Archaevirology, Uncovering the History of Viral Pathogens
Please arrive 5 minutes before the Seminar begins to gain building access
The study of ancient DNA is emerging into a discipline of its own, with the subjects ranging from a plethora of species to extinct (archaic) humans. Accordingly, the information of ancestral pathogens is just beginning to promote our understanding of microbial transmission, epidemics and disease pathogenesis.
With a long-standing interest in virus genome tissue persistence (Söderlund, Lancet 1997; Norja, PNAS 2006; Pyöriä, Nat Commun 2017), we are time-traveling by PCRs and NGS for viral nucleic acid sequences in archival human tissue remains (skeletal; soft) from a large variety of sources dating back decades, centuries and millennia.
Date:
18 April 2018, 12:00
Venue:
Medawar Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3SY
Venue Details:
Level 30 Seminar Room
Speaker:
Klaus Hedman (University of Helsinki)
Organisers:
Dr Proochista Ariana (University of Oxford),
Professor Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford),
Prof Lynn Dustin (NDORMS)
Organiser contact email address:
andrea.kastner@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Prof Peter Simmonds (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Peter Medawar Building Seminars
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Scientific Community
Editor:
Thomas Johnson
