New Findings from Old Bones: Genetic Histories from Ancient Britain

Speaker: Marina Soares Da Silva
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Francis Crick Institute, Ancient Genomics Laboratory

The Francis Crick Ancient Genomics Group focuses on extracting, sequencing, and analysing ancient DNA to explore human evolution, migration patterns, and historical genetics, providing insights into past populations and their environments.
Marina develops interdisciplinary research at the intersection of genetics, archaeology, and history. She uses ancient DNA recovered from skeletal remains from diverse archaeological contexts to study the genetics of past human populations.
Learn how time-stratified ancestry analysis tracks the shaping of genetic diversity, influencing ancestry composition and evolution across generations due to migration, interbreeding, and natural selection.
Check out ways to facilitate the interpretation of burial context and living conditions and elucidate past perceptions of biological sex and people with diverse biological traits.
Discover how to reconstruct a chronology of gene losses and acquisitions in pathogens derived from ticks and lice, and revise prior understanding of how the plague was spread to Europe’s northwestern periphery.
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