Lutz Bachmann and Øystein Wiig are pleased to announce on behalf of the National Center of Biosystematics (NCB) two guest lectures on:
Prof. Stephan C. Schuster, Penn State University, USA
"Genomics of extinct and endangered species"
Dr. Charlotte Lindqvist, University of Buffalo, USA
"Complete mitochondrial genome of a Pleistocene jawbone unveils the origin of polar bear"
Each lecture will take about 30 minutes, and they will be given back-to-back.
Note: The lectures will start at 10.00 (sharp!)
Stephan Schuster is a world expert in paleogenomics and next-generation sequencing.
Charlotte Lindqvist is an expert in molecular phylogenetics and evolution with particulat interest in ancient DNA analyses.
Charlotte Lindqvist and Stephan Schuster were recently first authors on a paper presenting the full mitochondrial genome of a ~120.000 year old polar bear found at Svalbard in 2004 (abstract | full text (pdf)). Due to its implications on the origin of polar bears, the paper attracted enormous international attention, both in the scientific community as well as in the public media.