Stephan Schiffels

Population Genetics – Computational Methods - Human History

Talks

2025

Plenary Lecture at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis Research, Lausanne, February 20, 2025

2024

Organising a visit of the Archaeological Society of Saxony-Anhalt, at the MPI-EVA, November 28, 2024

Meeting on Genetics and History at the University of Bonn, Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies, June 6, 2024

Invited seminar talk at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, April 25, 2024

Seminar Talk at the Department of Primate Evolution at the MPI-EVA, February 27, 2024

Invited seminar at the University of Cologne Population Genetics Interest Group, January 16, 2024

2023

Invited talk at the Nobel Week Dialoge in Götheborg, December 9, 2023

Talk at a Conference at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, November 2-4, 2023

Seminar talk at the University of Bern, October 23, 2023

Lecture at the University of Cologne, Cologne, July 14, 2023

Online-Lecture at the Children’s College of Karlsruhe University, July 12, 2023

Talk at the yearly meeting of the Society of German Archaeologists (Deutscher Archäologenverband) in Leipzig, June 18, 2023

Participation in panel discussion and evening on “What is saxonian?” at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, March 16, 2023. Video

Colloquium at Humboldt University, Berlin “Eine neue archäogenetische Studie zur angelsächsischen Migration im Frühmittelalter”, Jan 23, 2023

2022

Zoom-Lecture at the University of Jena on “Human demographic history - From African origins to recent population structure”, Dec 8, 2022

Virtual seminar talk at the Cologne Center for Genomics, Cologne, Germany, Nov 29, 2022

Talk by Stephan Schiffels at the Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag at the State Museum for prehistory in Halle, Germany, Oct 6-8, 2022.

Invited Talk at the EMBO conference “Reconstructing the Human Past” in Heidelberg, Germany, September 13-16, 2022

Workshop for a Nano-Degree on Ancient DNA at the UNiversity of Siegen, September 5-6, 2023

Joint virtual lecture “Die Prähistorie aus dem Blickwinkel der Gegenwart” with Dr. Alexander Herbig and Dr. Oliver Hochadel at the Master’s course “Integrative Wissensperspektiven” at the University of Bielefeld, January 10, 2022, Bielefeld, Germany

2021

Virtual talk “Die Archäogenetik als neue Quelle zur Untersuchung menschlicher Mobilität am Beispiel der Populationsgeschichte Europas” within discussion section “Die Herausforderung der Genetic History” at the Deutscher Historikertag, October 6, 2021, Munich, Germany

Participation in virtual Roundtable Discussion “Genetics, Genealogy, History” at the University of Münster, March 21, 2021, Münster, Germany

Virtual Seminar “Die frühmittelalterliche Bevölkerungsgeschichte Europas aus Sicht der Paläogenetik.” at State Museum Hannover, February 11, 2021, Hannover, Germany

2020

Virtual Seminar at Stony Brook University, September 9, 2020, Stony Brook, NY, USA

Clemens Schmid will present a talk titled “Spatiotemporal interpolation based on bulk radiocarbon data: Two case studies from archaeology and archaeogenetics” at the 26th EAA Virtual Annual Meeting, 24-30 August 2020

Joscha Gretzinger will present a talk titled “The Anglo-Saxon migration and formation of the early English gene pool” at the 26th EAA Virtual Annual Meeting, 24-30 August 2020

Virtual Seminar talk at the UCL Genetics Institute, June 17, 2020, London, UK

Virtual Seminar talk “Structure runs deep: Inference of human separation dynamics from whole genome sequences.” at the International Laboratory of Statistical and Computational Genomics, Higher School of Economics, May 5, 2020, Moscow, Russia

(Cancelled) Teilnahme an einer Podiumsdiskussion auf der Tagung Genealogie in der Moderne: Akteure – Praktiken – Perspektiven, March 20-22, 2020, Münster, Germany

Vortrag “Eine kurze Geschichte Deiner DNA und ihrer bewegten Vergangenheit” at the Eichsfeld-Gymnasium (High School), January 17, 2020, Duderstadt, Germany

Vortrag “Neue Methoden und Erkenntnisse zur Europäischen Eisenzeit und Frühmittelalter aus der Genetik” im Rahmen eines Round Table des MPI für Menschheitsgeschichte und des Historischen Instituts der Universität Jena. January 9, 2020, Jena, Germany

2019

Lecture on “Exploring deep human population history with genomic data: New methods and new insights” at the MPI-SHH, December 19, 2019, Jena, Germany

Vortrag auf der TEDxTHBrandenburg zum Thema Aufbruch: “Eine kurze Geschichte Deiner DNA und ihrer bewegten Vergangenheit” December 6, 2019, Brandenburg, Germany.. Video

Lecture “Investigating the human past with ancient and modern genomes.” at the University Hospital Würzburg, August 27, 2019, Würzburg, Germany.

Talk “Genetic history – What ancient and modern genomes tell us about our human past” at the Jena Center for Bioinformatics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität JenaMay 23, 2019, Jena, Germany.

Vortrag auf der Tagung „Diversität in der Archäologie: erforschen, ausstellen, vermitteln” im Staatlichen Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz. May 16, 2019, Chemnitz, Germany.

Talk by Joscha Gretzinger “The Anglo-Saxon migration and formation of the early English gene pool” at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium on Reconstructing the Human Past - Using Ancient and Modern GenomicsMarch 31 – April 3, 2019, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.

Talk by Ke Wang “Reconstructing population separation history from whole genome sequences” at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium on Reconstructing the Human Past - Using Ancient and Modern GenomicsMarch 31 – April 3, 2019, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.

Invited Talk at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium on Reconstructing the Human Past - Using Ancient and Modern Genomics, March 31 – April 3, 2019, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.

Workshop on “Computational Population Genetics”, January 22-24, 2019,  MPI-SHH in Jena, Germany.

2018

Webinar with the student council of the Turkish regional group of the International Society for Computational Biology, Regional Group in Turkey. Link to Youtube-Video. December 12, 2018, 3pm (CET), 5pm (Istanbul).

Seminar and Evening Lecture, November 28, 2018, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz, Germany

Workshop “Computational Methods for Analysing Human Genetic Variation”, October 25-26, 2018, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Invited Talk at the Symposium for Next Generation Genomics “What genomes tell us about human history: New methods and insights from ancient and modern DNA”, October 23-24, 2018, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Invited Lecture “Genetic history: What ancient and modern DNA tells us about our human past.” Lecture, September 11, 2018, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.

Invited seminar talk “Computational methods for inference of population history from ancient and modern genome sequences.” Lecture, July 4, 2018, MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.

Lecture “Unlocking human history - Computational methods for inference of past demography and population structure from genome sequences.”, April 4, 2018, MPI for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.

2017 and before

Talk by Thiseas Lamnidis “The origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in north-eastern Europe.” Workshop on *Linguistics, Archaeology and Genetics: The origin and expansions of Uralic speaking populations,November 29 - December 1 2017, MPI Jena, Germany.

Workshop on Unleashing the power of full genome polymorphism data for inference: new developments of the Ancestral Recombination Graph “Inferring Population history from whole genome sequences.” ,September 27 2017, MPI for evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.

Seminar talk “What genomes tell us about human history: New methods and insights from ancient and modern DNA.”, July 19 2017, University of Cologne, Germany.

Invited speaker at the Annual Meeting of the society for Molecular Biology and Evolution: “Modelling rare genetic variation in modern and ancient genomes to study recent human history.”, July 2-7 2017, Austin, Texas, USA.

“Analysing Australian genomes to learn about early modern human dispersal out of Africa.” Workshop on Human Dispersals in the Late Pleistocene Interdisciplinary Approaches Towards Understanding the Worldwide Expansion of Homo sapiensNovember 8-10 2016, MPI Jena, Germany.

“Die Angelsächsische Migration in England - eine genetische Perspektive.” Vortrag auf der 23. Jahrestagung des Brackweder Arbeitskreises für Mittelalterforschung: Akteure und Orte. Glokale Perspektiven auf Gruppierungen im Mittelalter. November 18-19 2016, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany.

“Insights into the Anglo-Saxon migration period from a Genetics perspective.” 9th Archaeological Conference of Central Germany:Migration and Integration from Prehistory to the Middle Ages, October 20-22 2016, Halle, Germany.

“Modeling recent Siberian ancestry in Native Americans using rare mutations.” Meeting on Probabilistic Modelling in Genomics, September 12-14 2016, Oxford, UK.

“Modelling rare genetic variation to investigate recent human history.” Seminar talk, August 31 2016, Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK.

“What Genomes tell us about Human History.” Talk and Tutorial at the Spring school for Bioinformatics and Population Genomics, May 29 - June 2, 2016, Leukerbad, Switzerland.

“What Genomes tell us about Human History.” Seminar talk, April 20 2016, Prague University, Czech Republic.

“Insights into population history from ancient DNA sequencing of Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon samples from East England.” Meeting *Linguistics, Archaeology and Genetics: Integrating new Evidence for the Origin and Spread of the Indo-European Languages,October 11-13 2015, MPI Jena, Germany.

“Insights into population history from ancient DNA sequencing of Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon samples from East England.” Annual Meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, July 2015, Vienna, Austria.

“Insights into population history from ancient DNA of Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon samples from East England.” Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics Meeting, March 2015, Cambridge, UK.

“Inferring human population history from multiple genome sequences.” Seminar Talk, November 2014, Kiel University, Germany.

“Insights into British and European Population history from ancient DNA sequencing.” *Meeting of the American Society for Human Genetics,October 2014, San Diego, USA.

“Inferring human population history from modern and ancient genomes.” Lecture and Tutorial at the *Bioinformatics Workshop at the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA,November 2014, Adelaide, Australia.

“Inferring human population history from genome sequences.” Seminar Talk, September 2014, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

“Inferring human ancestry from complete genome sequences.” Seminar Talk, July 2014, University of Cologne, Germany.

“Inferring human population history from multiple genome sequences.” Meeting on Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology, June 2014, Montpellier, France.

“Inferring human population history and gene flow multiple genome sequences.” 42nd European Mathematical Genetics Meeting, April 2014, University of Cologne, Germany.

“Inferring human population history and gene flow from multiple genome sequences.” Meeting of the American Society for Human Genetics, October 2013, Boston, USA.

“Inferring human population history and gene flow multiple genome sequences.” Seminar Talk, September 2013, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK.

“Inferring human population history and gene flow multiple genome sequences.” EMBO Conference, September 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

“Inferring human population history and gene flow multiple genome sequences.” Seminar Talk, September 2013, Aarhus University, Denmark.

“Reconstructing Human Demographic History from Whole-genome Sequences of Multiple People.” Annual Meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, July 2013, Dublin, Ireland.

“Inferring human ancestry from complete genome sequences.” Seminar talk, January 2013, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.