Public lecture by Dr. Martin Sikora, Department of Genetics, Stanford University , USA

The National Archaeological Institute with Museum is pleased to invite you to attend the second lecture in the cycle of public lectures included in the program to commemorate the 145th anniversary of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1869-2014).

The public lecture by Dr. Martin Sikora, Department of Genetics, Stanford University, USA, is entitled "USING ANCIENT AND MODERN GENOMES TO LEARN ABOUT EUROPEAN POPULATION HISTORY" and will be held on January 30, 2014, at 16:00 h in the Board Hall of NAIM-BAS, 1 Atanas Burov Square (entrance from the site of Presidency).


Dr. Sikora defended master's degree thesis in 2004 at Universität für Bodenkultur, Vienna, in the Department of Biotechnology and in 2010 earned a PhD degree at Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Sikora is a geneticist at the Department of Genetics, Stanford University and participates in the international project of NAIM-BAS "Archaeogenetics of Bulgarian Prehistory and Protohistory".

More information about Dr. Martin Sikora can be found here.