Johannes Krause : The genetic history of the Plague: What we learn from ancient pandemics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ธ.ค. 2024
- Date: 11:45 a.m. EST Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Speaker: Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany)
Topic: The genetic history of the Plague: What we learn from ancient pandemics
Abstract: High throughput DNA sequencing has revolutionized the field of archaeogenetics in the past decade, providing a better understanding of human genetic history, past population dynamics and host pathogen interactions through time. Targeted DNA capture approaches have allowed reconstructing complete ancient bacterial genomes providing direct insights into the evolution, history and origin of some of the most infamous bacterial pathogens known to humans such as Yersinia pestis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mycobacterium leprae. Here we discuss the potential of ancient pathogen genomics using Yersinia pestis as a model organism. Phylogenetic comparisons of modern and ancient Y.pestis strains spanning over 5000 years of human history from the Stone Age to modern times are discussed. They provide direct evidence for the timing and emergence of major virulence factors essential for the transmission of bacteria by fleas. We furthermore present the oldest reconstructed genomes of Y.pestis that are fully capable of causing the bubonic form of plague from the Eastern European Bronze Age. Suggesting that the emergence of this form of the disease happened more than 1000 years earlier than previously suggested. Temporal studies of pathogens might thus throw new light on the origin of human diseases and potentially allow predicting and preventing further transmissions and disseminations in the future.
No, I am not sick of it…keep it coming, just amazing and fantastic how it all works out…
Very interesting session.
Amazing
Wow these lectures on ancient DNA are like the hottest freshest cakes one can have. Who cares about black holes when there is black rats. Thank you dear Johannes Krause. To think I did my PhD in engineering and not this!! Ahhh I'm jealous!
There was famine, weather changing big time became a “perfect storm”.
Kind of like now..,
How did anyone able to survive the Black Plague, luck?