Unravelling the genetic history of The Black Death and bubonic plague from 5000 years ago to present.
You are cordially invited to the 2021 Annual Lecture of the Skeletal Biology Research Centre. This year’s speaker is Prof. Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) who is a leader in the palaeogenomics revolution and played a key role in the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome.
His lecture will present his recent work unravelling the genetic history of The Black Death and bubonic plague from 5000 years ago to present.
How does this change our understanding of how, when and where pandemics start?
Please register to attend to Zoom conference here.
This is a public lecture so please disseminate to anyone you think will find this talk of interest.
Wednesday April 21st 13.00 – 14.30