Genetics meet archaeology

Programme

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Opening

09:30 - Registration / Coffee

10:00 - Opening remarks - Matthew Collins and Matthew Teasdale - B2C Team

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Session 1: Modern livestock genomics

10:15 - Preliminary phylogeny of English sheep breeds - Hans Lenstra

10:40 - Cost-effective genotyping technologies for livestock breeding and population genomics - Alex Caulton

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Break 11:05- 11:20

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Session 2: Ancient genomics

11:20 - Ancient livestock genomics, possibilities for DNA postcoding of artifacts - Dan Bradley

11:45 - Using ancient DNA to understand the evolution of livestock epidemics - Laurent Frantz

12:10 - Sheep in northeastern Europe - population history, utilization, and the importance of present-day native breeds - Eve Rannamäe

12:35 - A population genomics view on sheep domestication as an evolutionary process and the potential use of parchment for reconstructing recent demographic history - Torsten Günther

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Lunch 13:00 - 14:00

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Session 3: A codicological perspective

14:00 - Questions of Materiality and Pathology - Annelise Binois & Elodie Leveque - B2C Team

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Session 4: Group Discussion Session

14:30 - Big Questions 1.

15:30 - Break.

15:45 - Big Questions 2.

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Closing remarks

16:45 - Matthew Collins and Matthew Teasdale - B2C Team

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