The presentations will be given at CPG (directions: About us – Centre for Palaeogenetics), in our seminar room, and we will make sure that there is some “fikabröd” and enough coffee to keep you alert during the presentations and discussions.

On Thursday the 22nd of September at 15.00-17.00 we will describe our work at CPG. We will first try to give a description of the facility, using pictures and short movieclips (it is a facility we are proud of). Thereafter we will present three ongoing projects, none of them is yet published but they are all ready to be. The first is a genetic transect of Scandinavia through the latest 2000 years. Ricardo Rodriguez Varela has worked with DNA from several hundred prehistoric Scandinavian individuals (and several thousands contemporary Scandinavians). The two particulars visible in the data is the proportionally large geneflow (migration) during the Viking period, and the influx of Uralic genetic components in northern Scandinavia visible to some extent already 1000 years ago. The second study is a collaboration with archaeologists in Kyiv and Uppsala where we have sequenced 11 individuals from the early chronology of the town of Kyiv. From our side it is Mario Vicente who has done much of the work, and the somewhat unexpected component in this study is the importance the south (Byzantium) seems to have had in the beginning of Kyiv. Recently much of our work has focused on microbes, and diseases caused by them. Zoé Pochon will provide some insight on some infectious diseases that were present in Sigtuna during the Viking period, and how we detect them.