Plant and Animal Genome XXV Conference

January 13 - 18, 2017

Plenary Lecture: Alan Cooper

Prof. Alan Cooper has played a central role in the development of the field of ancient DNA, starting with his PhD research in Allan Wilson’s UC Berkeley laboratory with Svante Paabo. He established the Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre at the University of Oxford, and was Professor of Ancient Biomolecules from 2001-2005. He then moved to the University of Adelaide as an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in 2005 and established the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD). He was an ARC Future Fellow 2011-2014, and was awarded an ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2015. In 2016 he was named the South Australian Scientist of the Year.