In an activity organized in in METU Culture and Convention Center, Mehmet Somel was invited to talk on why this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to research in the field of ancient DNA. After providing a summary of the hitherto research on human evolution and ancient DNA, Mehmet introduced the audience to Svante Pääbo’s seminal discoveries in these fields.
On October 6th, we presented our recent work on genetic kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia at the “Kinship, Sex, and Biological Relatedness” Symposium organized by the State Museum of Prehistory…
We came together with some of the most prominent archaeologists of Turkey in METU for a 3-day workhop (April 20-22, 2022) where we presented our aDNA results and…
As part of “TEDxMETUAnkara”, Assoc. Prof. Çiğdem Atakuman delivered a talk titled “Archaeology will shape our future”.
As members of CompEvo, Human-G Lab, and Hacettepe University Department of Bioinformatics we participated in the 42nd International Symposium on Excavations, Surveys and Archaeometry held in Denizli by…