Skoglund lab Ancient Genomics Laboratory
: Areas of interest
Introduction
Present-day human biology and disease are outcomes of historical evolutionary processes, and large-scale sequencing of ancient DNA now provides the opportunity to directly study the dynamics and signatures of these processes in the human genome through time and space.
The Ancient Genomics Laboratory is committed to understanding the human evolutionary past using ancient DNA and computational genomics. The laboratory will from late 2017 comprise a state-of-the-art clean room for DNA extraction from ancient human and animal skeletal material, as well a major computational focus on statistical population genomics.
The research group aims to understand central evolutionary episodes in the human past, and their impact on human societies and health.
