Science at Cal Lecture - Uncovering the Past: Using Genetic Data to Understand Human History

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Recent advances in sequencing DNA have opened up new opportunities to use genetic data to improve our understanding of human history and evolution. For example, genetic data can be used to reconstruct migration patterns, understand how genomes change across different species or lineages, and understand how our evolutionary history impacts disease and adaptation. To illustrate this work, Dr. Priya Moorjani, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology and Center of Computational Biology, will discuss two ongoing projects within her lab: 1) Reconstructing the history of human-Neanderthal mixture using ancient genomes, and 2) Characterizing the patterns of major mixture events occurring in ancient Europe; both critical movements in human history. These analyses highlight the power of genomic data to elucidate the legacy of human migrations, providing insights that complement research done in archaeology and linguistics.
Featuring:
Dr. Priya Moorjani
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Center for Computational Biology
Saturday, July 9, 2022
11 AM | Valley Life Sciences Building
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@big1dog23 Жыл бұрын

Very clear and concise. It's truely amazing what we have learned in the last 10-20 years using ancient DNA.

@remyramadhar7821 Жыл бұрын

@esslar1 Жыл бұрын

This is one of the best presentations I've seen on this area so far. Clear, wide-ranging, and in-depth. Wonderful.

@anotherelvis 27 күн бұрын

Great talk

@mnelson9057 Жыл бұрын

Excellent presentation!

@ElinT13 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting lecture! Thank you!

@dreamzofhorses Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this education.

@ricardomartins3015 Жыл бұрын

7:33

@rickrusty Жыл бұрын

One of the best talks on the subject. But show more slides and less back of heads.

@joegibbs1454 Жыл бұрын

Who were the sumerians closely related to?

@liamstacey419 Жыл бұрын

Isn’t there an epigenetic stress effect that can influence the location of chromatid crossovers during Meiosis? If so, physiological stresses could result in a non- random generation of the preservation or mixing of chunks of a chromosome.

@casiandsouza7031 Жыл бұрын

Genographic showed that both my HV* mitochondria and J2B Y chromosome are rare in India.,

@Drbob369 5 ай бұрын

The molecular clock of DNA mutations is ridiculous 😅

@casiandsouza7031 Жыл бұрын

Environment can only enable genetic potential.

@Drbob369 5 ай бұрын

Punctuated equilibrium is not a molecular clock it is intelligent design 😅

@philo3936 Жыл бұрын

Read Anatolian as Arabian. It's western cope and obfuscation.

@user-rq7el8nh6q 2 ай бұрын

Everybody came from somewhere

@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 Жыл бұрын

The presentation of scientific information does not need to include a series of political statements in the preamble. Keeps politics out of science.

@fernandoleanme5928 Жыл бұрын

That latinx designation is hateful

@arielsea9087 Жыл бұрын

Those are designated labels they made up.

@wkaliher Жыл бұрын

quit watching at intro--if u r that pc i doubt u would ever present real findings--i taink the Cherokee nation of NC for not killing all the edisto tribe in SC for my pc remark--sad-truly sad science is so untrustworthy--but at least i u let me know what u were at the start and i didn't waste time

@babaayman9658 Жыл бұрын

You are dumbfounding, searching for information but unwilling to listen to anything you don’t want to hear. It’s simple, they are being loaned out the land. The Native Tribe is still part of the community, she might be Native. Confronting the fact that you are on land taken with genocide is easy. Only a true coward would just run away.

@wkaliher Жыл бұрын

@@babaayman9658 u r truly limited and demonstrate a lack of education concerning history --genocide? I hate what happened to many Indians in the Americas and their history after the Europeans came but that is almost esactly the history of the disorganized celtic tribes when rome invaded gaul and England-- genocide--u r one bigot--do u even have a clue to how much unued land was in the Americas? have u ever read about the Aztecs sacrificing over 250,000 non-aztec indians before columbus ever set sail? 1485 if memory servives-- darn I am laughing at your total lack of history-history in context and ability to present a factual thought--u r amazing in that manner--genocide--- ever read about Montezuma's zoo of verious human types? I didn't think so---- darn I am about to break a rib laughing at u

@arielsea9087 Жыл бұрын

I’d like to see a vigorous debate but that will never happen at UC Berkley.