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The McMaster Ancient DNA Centre is a lab in the department of Anthropology at McMaster University (Hamilton - Ontario - Canada).

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Broad InstituteMay 4th, 2007

Hendrik Poinar was at the recent Elephant Community Meeting (organised by the Broad Institute) in Cambridge (MA, U.S.A.) with ca. 40 other elephant geneticists to discuss the completion of the elephant genome project.
He gave a presentation entitled 'Paleogenomics: working towards the Mammoth genome'.
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April 26-29th, 2007

Kirsten Bos  took part to the Society of American Archeology 72nd Annual Meeting in Austin (TX, U.S.A).
She gave a presentation entitled 'Metagenomics in Archaeology: the palaeofaecal record'.

ABRF 2007March 31th - April 3rd, 2007

Regis Debruyne took part to the The association of Biomolecular Resource facilities 2007 Meeting in Tampa (FL, U.S.A).
He gave a presentation entittled 'Sequencing ancient genome'.

 

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Title: A Preliminary analysis of the DNA and diet of the extinct Beothuk: A systematic approach to ancient human DNA. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Authors: M. Kuch, D.R. Gröcke, M.C. Knyf, T. M. P. Gilbert, E. Willerslev, B. Younghusband, T. Young, I. Marshall, M. Stoneking & H. Poinar
Journal: In press

Title: Metagenomics to Paleogenomics: Large-Scale Sequencing of Mammoth DNA
Authors: H.N. Poinar, C. Schwarz, Ji Qi, B. Shapiro, R.D.E. MacPhee, B. Buigues, A. Tikhonov, D.H. Huson, L.P. Tomsho, A. Auch, M. Rampp, W. Miller, S.C. Schuster
Journal: SCIENCE - Volume 311 - january 2006
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Title: Long-Term Survival of Ancient DNA in Egypt: Response to Zink and Nerlich (2003)
Authors: M.T.P. Gilbert, I. Barnes, M.J. Collins, C. Smith, J. Eklund, J. Goudsmit, H. Poinar and A. Cooper
Journal: American journal of physical anthropology (2005) - Notes and comment
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