Giant Squid, Potato Blight, Killer Whales and Leeches - high-throughput sequencing and ancient DNA

Sir Walter Murdoch Visiting Adjunct Professor ‘Master Class’ Prof. Tom Gilbert (University of Copenhagen) Giant Squid, Potato Blight, Killer Whales and Leeches: realising the full potential of high-throughput sequencing on degraded (and not so degraded) DNA Date: Monday the 6th of May Time: from 2:30pm to 4:30pm Location: VBS3.023

Date: Monday the 6th of May
Time: from 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: VBS3.023

Part I:  2:30 till 3:20pm – Lecture

Part II: 3:40 till 4:30pm – NGS workshop covering advances and approaches in NGS – (will involve a Q&A session).

Biography: Prof. Gilbert is an internationally recognised expert in evolutionary (palaeo)biology, and pioneer in the analysis of biomolecules from degraded samples. He was the youngest ever full professor at the University of Copenhagen and iscurrently the first chaired Professor of Palaeogenomics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. Gilbert’s research interests span the development of new techniques, including the application of state of the art sequencing, as well as the analysis of recovered biomolecules in evolutionary, conservation and archaeological contexts. Since 2003 he has published ~144 research papers - 23 of these publications appear in Nature and Science.