Paleoenvironmental DNA and Human Evolution Symposium

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In-Person
Date: November7,2025
Location: UBB, University of Vienna, Vienn
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Pere Gelabert, Mareike Stahlschmidt, and Benjamin Vernot organized a symposium on integrating the new field of Paleoenvironmental DNA within Human Evolution studies, bringing together leading international researchers to exchange perspectives on current challenges and future directions in sedaDNA.

Participants & Organizers

University of Vienna Department of Evolutionary Anthropology(Organizer)

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The Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna was founded more than 100 years ago and is the only biologically oriented anthropology at university level in Austria. The department was recently growing significantly by incorporating new workgroups. Thus, our portfolio is now covering a broad range of approaches to study the evolution of humans from different perspectives, including the history of their ancestors and closest relatives. The eleven leaders of workgroups are well established in the scientific community and maintain numerous links to research institutions in the world. Our workgroups cover topics in the field of human evolution from functional morphology, microarchaeology, paleogenomics, paleoproteomics, bioinformatics, isotopes, and radiocarbon dating to evolutionary demography, human life history, history of pathogenes, bioarchaeology, human behavioural biology, animal domestication, and human ecology.