Mini Symposium on Bionanotechnology, DNA Sequencing and story told by ancient DNA

Everybody is invited to a mini symposium on bionanotechnology, DNA Sequencing and story told by ancient DNA.


Presentations will be given by Michael Egholm, PhD and Vice President of Research and Development, 454 Life Science and Eske Willerslev, professor at University of Copenhagen.

Michael Egholm has developed the most used methods for sequencing DNA1 and his method has revolutionised genome sequencing. Michael Egholm has for instance used the method for analysing the Neanderthal male genome and thereby contributed with important knowledge about when the human race split from the Neanderthal2.

The other speaker is Eske Willerslev. He has developed methods for retrieval and analyses of DNA sequences from fossil glacial ice, sediments and archaeological remains. He has for example managed to isolate the most ancient DNA from plants and insects ever published3,4.

1Sequence-selective recognition of dna by strand displacement with thymine-substituted polyamide; Nielsen PE, Egholm M, Berg RH, Buchardt O. Science 254 (5037): 1497-1500 1991

2Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA; Green RE, Krause J, Ptak SE, Briggs AW, Ronan MT, Simons JF, Du L, Egholm M, Rothberg JM, Paunovic M, Paabo S. Nature 444 (7171): 330-336 2006

3Ancient biomolecules from deep ice cores reveal a forested southern Greenland, Willerslev E et al. Science 317 (5834): 36-7 2007

4Evolution. The origin of insects, Glenner H, Thomsen PF, Hebsgaard MB, Sørensen MV, Willerslev E. Science 314 (5807): 1883-4 2006

Programme

14:15:  Michael Egholm, PhD and Vice President of Research and Development, 454 Life Science:  "Ultra High Throughput Sequencing"

15:15: Eske Willerslev, professor, University of Copenhagen: "The story of ancient DNA"