Dear all, Our EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics' is open for registrations. It is a multi-disciplinary meeting on studies of the human past using archaeogenomic methods to reconstruct the landscape of human genetic variation over time. Submit your abstract now and join us in September 2024! Important information: 'Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics' Dates 17 - 20 September 2024, EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual Abstract submission deadline: 18 June 2024 On-site registration deadline: 6 August 2024 Virtual registration deadline: 10 September 2024 About the symposium The available dataset of genome-wide data from present-day and archaic humans has risen exponentially since the first EMBO 'Reconstructing the human past' meeting in 2019. This has drastically enhanced our ability to carry out further large-scale studies on both global and local scales across deeply sampled time transects, making it now possible to ask and answer questions that were simply impossible to address before, in addition to motivating the development of new analytical methods. Critically, with new frontiers in data generation and analyses, questions on ethical practices in paleogenomics need to be considered. Furthermore, the reconstruction of ancient pathogen genomes and metagenomic analysis of the oral and gut microbiomes provides us with molecular fossils to study microbial evolution through time. The potential of ancient DNA data to reconstruct genomic variation of human-associated animals and plants to understand the process of domestication and their evolutionary trajectory is equally promising to such studies in humans. 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. Keynote speaker We are pleased to announce that Nobel Laureate Svante Pääbo from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany) will be the keynote speaker at 'Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics'. Organisers Scientific organisers Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany), Ida Moltke (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Maanasa Raghavan (University of Chicago, USA), and Pontus Skoglund (The Francis Crick Institute, UK) have put together an excellent programme and are ready to welcome you in September! 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 Find out more and submit your abstract via EMBL Events website: https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/ees24-09/ Thank you! Kind regards, Mayra Sanchez Marketing Trainee mayra.sanchez@embl.org (+49) 6221 3878 109 Advanced Training Centre | A0702 European Molecular Biology Laboratory Course and Conference Office Meyerhofstr. 1 D-69117 Heidelberg Germany Visit www.embl.org/events for a list of all EMBL events and subscribe to our newsletter (http://www.embl.org/events/newsletter/signup). Mayra Gabriela Sanchez Ponce (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)