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About the Lecture Humanity has always been intrigued by its origins. Where do we come from, and how are we related to those who came before us? What makes us, Homo sapiens, different from other hominins? The answer shall be obtained if we are able to sequence the genome of Sapiens and Hominins. Sequencing the genome of Sapiens was accomplished but sequencing the genome of Extinct species like Hominins is a challenge. Svante Pääbo, met this challenge and invented an ingenious method for the sequence of Extinct species such as Neanderthals and Denisovans. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the year 2022 for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. This lecture covers the work of Svante Pääbo
Introduction Dr. V. Aravindhan Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Madras, Chennai
Dr. K. Thangaraj
Director, the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad
Genome Sequencing of the Extinct
Q & A
Kumarasamy Thangaraj is presently Director of the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) at Hyderabad. Prior to this, he was Chief Scientist and Group Leader at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad. His main research interests are; origin of modern human, cardiovascular diseases, mitochondrial disorders, and male infertility. He has published more than 280 research articles, some of which are in Cell, Lancet, Science, Nature, Nature Genetics, etc. He is an elected Fellow of - Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of several awards, including J C Bose Fellowship, Sun Pharma Research Award in Medical Sciences, Raman Research Fellowship, Life-time achievement Award, Excellence in Science Award, Distinguished Scientist Award, Sir Dr. UN Brahmachari Award, and delivered several Orations. He is a Board Editor of Mitochondrion; Associate Editor of BMC Medical Genetics; BMC Genetics; Tropical Medicine and International Health, and member of the Editorial Board of the journals – Scientific Reports, Human Genetics, and Clinical Genetics. He was the President of the Indian Society of Human Genetics (2011 – 2015) and the founder of the Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine.
Dr.V.Aravindan, an Assitant Professor in the Department of Genetics at Madras University did his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Vaccine Research. He moved to the USA for his Post-doctoral research work and joined with Food and Drug Administration. He later moved to National Cancer Institute at Fredrick in the USA. He moved back to India and take up the Scientist position in Dept of Transcriptomics and Molecular Immunology, at Madras Diabetes Research Foundation. He later joined Anna University as a Scientist, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Life Sciences, AU-KBC, Anna University, MIT campus before taking up a teaching position at Madras University. He has published more than 35 papers