Viviane Slon
Viviane Slon | |
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Alma mater | Tel Aviv University Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
Known for | Paleogenetics Denny |
Awards | Nature's 10 (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Ancient DNA Human evolution Paleoanthropology[1] |
Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
Doctoral advisor | Svante Pääbo |
Viviane Slon is a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.[1][2] She identified that a teenage girl born 90,000 years ago had both Neanderthal and Denisovan parents. She was selected as one of Nature's 10 in 2018.[3]
Early life and education
Slon completed her doctoral studies at the
Research and career
In 2018 Slon was appointed a postdoctoral researcher working on neanderthals at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.[9] She develops techniques to remove hominin DNA from sediments.[10][11][12] Her doctoral supervisor Svante Pääbo decoded the Denisovan gene.[13][14] Slon visited the Denisova Cave during a symposium, where over one thousand bones are excavated a year.[13]
As her first project, Slon reported the DNA from the tooth of the fourth Denisova individual ever found on earth.[15][16] She also co-led a team that found Denisovan DNA in excavated dirt as an alternative to finding rare hominin bones.[3]
In 2018, Slon and her colleagues published the genome of
Slon was selected as one of Nature's 10 in 2018.[3]
References
- ^ a b Viviane Slon publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ Viviane Slon publications from Europe PubMed Central
- ^ PMID 30563976.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ Scholarship for outstanding young researchers., Dan David Prize. "SLON Viviane". www.dandavidprize.org. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- PMID 29371468.
- S2CID 3196533.
- PMID 24278319.
- ^ "Dept. of Genetics | Staff". www.eva.mpg.de. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ "DNA from Ancient Hominins Discovered in Cave Sediments". Everything Dinosaur Blog. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ Corness, Liz. "DNA of extinct humans found in caves". Science Solutions Recruitment. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ Montanari, Shaena. "Scientists Sequence Ancient Neandertal DNA From Cave Dirt". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ a b c d "Viviane Slon among Nature's annual Top Ten". www.mpg.de. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ "Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil". www.mpg.de. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- PMID 28695206.
- ^ Choi, Charles Q. (10 July 2017). "200,000-Year-Old 'Baby Tooth' Reveals Clues About Mysterious Human Lineage". Live Science. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- PMID 30135579.
- PMID 27020421.
- PMID 28450384.
- ^ "Daughter of Neanderthal mom, exotic foreign dad revealed by ancient DNA | Canada Times of News". Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ "'Denisova 11' Had Neanderthal Mother and Denisovan Father | Genetics, Paleoanthropology | Sci-News.com". Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ "Ancient Girl's Parents Were Two Different Human Species". Science & Innovation. 2018-08-22. Archived from the original on August 22, 2018. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ "Neandertal mother, Denisovan father!". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ Zhang, Sarah (2018-08-22). "Scientists Stunned by a Neanderthal Hybrid Discovered in a Siberian Cave". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ "Caveman Genetics - Archaeology Magazine". www.archaeology.org. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ "Ancient remains show early human interbreeding". NBC News. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ "Prehistoric love child was a breed apart". Metro Newspaper UK. Retrieved 2018-12-21.