KEYNOTE
Eske Willerslev, Professor, GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen
Eske Willerslev is an evolutionary geneticist. He is particularly known for sequencing the first ancient human genome and establishing the field of environmental DNA, where modern and ancient DNA from higher plants and animals are obtained directly from environmental samples.Willerslev was born in Denmark in 1971. After spending his youth as explorer and furtrapper in Siberia, he established the first ancient DNA laboratory in Denmark and obtained his DSc at University of Copenhagen in 2004.
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