
Pontus Skoglund
GROUP LEADER
Pontus Skoglund is the group leader of the Francis Crick Institute's Ancient Genomics laboratory. His research has focused on developing new approaches to propel the field of ancient DNA into the genomic era. He obtained his PhD in evolutionary genetics from Uppsala University in 2013 with Mattias Jakobsson, and thereafter did his postdoctoral research with David Reich at Harvard Medical School. His PhD research revealed population migrations as catalyzers for the transition from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to agriculture in Europe, and he expanded this to worldwide regions in his postdoc research.
In 2018, he founded the first high-throughput ancient DNA laboratory in the UK at the Francis Crick Institute. His lab has used ancient DNA to pioneer research revealing the origin and evolution of dogs and their wild ancestors, and the evolution of bacteria and human immunity in prehistory. He is a Wellcome Trust Investigator, ERC starting grantee, EMBO Young Investigator, Vallee Foundation Scholar and Blavatnik Award finalist prize honoree.
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- Annals of Anatomy (1)
- Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics (1)
- Archaeology in Oceania (1)
- BMC Evolutionary Biology (1)
- Britannia (1)
- Cell (4)
- Current Biology (7)
- Current Opinion in Genetics & Development (1)
- European Journal of Human Genetics (1)
- Evolution Letters (1)
- Genes (1)
- Genome Biology (1)
- Genome Biology and Evolution (1)
- iScience (1)
- Journal of Archaeological Science (1)
- Molecular Biology and Evolution (4)
- Molecular Ecology (1)
- Nature (14)
- Nature Communications (3)
- Nature Ecology & Evolution (1)
- Nature Ecology and Evolution (1)
- Nature Genetics (1)
- Nature Plants (1)
- Nature Reviews Methods Primers (1)
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences (2)
- PLOS ONE (1)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (3)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA (1)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences (1)
- Science (9)
- Scientific Reports (2)