BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:758@biocityturku.fi DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250319T131500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20250319T141500 DTSTAMP:20250317T073750Z URL:https://biocityturku.fi/events/human-diversity-seminar-rohrlach/ SUMMARY:Human Diversity Seminar: Rohrlach DESCRIPTION:19th March at 13:15-14:15\nHybrid event\nin Natura\, lecture ha ll IX / Zoom\n\nDr. Adam Ben Rohrlach\, Max Planck Institute for Evolution ary Anthropology\, Leipzig\nThe interface between genomics and statistics - new methods in health and kinship in archaeogenetics\n\nHost: Ronan O’ Sullivan (ronan.osullivan@utu.fi)\n\nZoom link to the event: https://utu.z oom.us/j/61515345616\n\n \;\n\nThis seminar is part of a series presen ting the interdisciplinary research related to the Human Diversity consort ium (PROFI7) at the University of Turku. https://sites.utu.fi/humandiversi ty/\n\nBen will be in Turku all day on Tuesday 18th and before his seminar on the morning of the 19th. If you would like to meet Ben\, please contac t ronan.osullivan@utu.fi and we can arrange a time.\n\nWelcome everyone!\n \n \;\n\nHow human beings have responded to disease and disorder in pa st populations has been a topic of interest for researchers for a long tim e. Whether it is our collective response to epidemic-level events\, or mor e personal or rare conditions\, this offers a window into the past that pe ople can resonate with today. However\, many diseases and disorders leave little to no evidence in the archaeological record\, or leave signs that c ould be caused by a multitude of other conditions. Fortunately\, since the advent of ancient DNA analyses\, we have the ability to detect both patho gens and genetic abnormalities that have previously been invisible to arch aeologists. Further\, sample sizes are becoming large enough to reliably e xpect to find cases of relatively rare conditions. In this talk I will des cribe some of the work that we have been doing to detect genetic disease a nd disorder from the large in-house database of ancient DNA. I will descri be how we have screened samples obtained from individuals dating to as far back as the Neolithic\, and from across the globe. I will describe how we detect these needles in haystacks\, how we separate the true cases from t he false positives\, and what we can say about the lives of these individu als\, and how they were treated by those around them in the distant past. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://biocityturku.fi/wp-content/uploads/human -diversity.png CATEGORIES:Other events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Helsinki X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:EET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR