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
Detecting patterns of selection
Reconstructing the genetic history of human populations
Ethical considerations and research practices in paleogenomics
Integrating genetic and historical evidence
Evolution of human pathogens, microbiome, and health
New methods and avenues for ancient genomic data analysis

Location: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

Organizers: Johannes Krause MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY, GERMANY Ida Moltke UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK Maanasa Raghavan UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, USA Pontus Skoglund THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE, UK

Website: https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/ees24-09/