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]
Slon completed her doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. [4] She won the 2017 Dan David Prize. [5] She worked at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University on the earliest human fossils outside Africa. [6] [7] She studied the Qafzeh 9 Skull, looking at developmental malocclusions. [8]
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 Denny, a hybrid hominin. [17] DNA was extracted from a hominin bone found in a Middle Pleistocene layer. [13] [18] [19] Using genetic analysis and radiocarbon dating, the hominin was identified as a girl born more than 50,000 years ago to a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. [13] [20] [21] The work was covered in BBC News, National Geographic, EurekAlert!, The Atlantic and Archaeology magazine. [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27]
Slon was selected as one of Nature's 10 in 2018. [3]
Viviane Slon | |
---|---|
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]
Slon completed her doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. [4] She won the 2017 Dan David Prize. [5] She worked at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University on the earliest human fossils outside Africa. [6] [7] She studied the Qafzeh 9 Skull, looking at developmental malocclusions. [8]
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 Denny, a hybrid hominin. [17] DNA was extracted from a hominin bone found in a Middle Pleistocene layer. [13] [18] [19] Using genetic analysis and radiocarbon dating, the hominin was identified as a girl born more than 50,000 years ago to a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. [13] [20] [21] The work was covered in BBC News, National Geographic, EurekAlert!, The Atlantic and Archaeology magazine. [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27]
Slon was selected as one of Nature's 10 in 2018. [3]