Dr Thomas Booth
Senior Research Laboratory Scientist, The Crick Institute, London
Speaker's biography
Dr Tom Booth has a doctorate in archaeology and has spent the last 7 years sampling ancient skeletons from Britain for DNA analysis to look at genetic change and natural selection over the last 10,000 years. He is currently working on a Wellcome Trust-funded project at the Francis Crick Institute which is aiming to sequence 1000 high-quality ancient genomes from Britain to help create an ancient UK Biobank that can be used for investigating the dynamics of medically relevant genetic variants over time.