Pontus Skoglund's Ancient Genomics Lab at the Francis Crick Institute in London is looking for a postdoctoral fellow interested in ancient population genomics of dogs and humans. The Skoglund Ancient Genomics lab is a dynamic team with backgrounds in computational biology, molecular biology and archaeology, with state-of-the-art infrastructure. The Francis Crick Institute is the largest biomedical institute under one roof in Europe. Ancient genomics has provided abundant information about human genetic history, but has not fulfilled its promise to provide insights into a wider range of evolutionary processes. This postdoc will work on the lab's project to develop the dog and its wild ancestor the grey wolf as a model system for evolutionary genomics. The postdoc will work on ancient whole-shotgun genomes and targeted SNP data from over a thousand ancient individuals to reconstruct evolution in three phases: 1) Ice age wolf evolution. How did wolves evolve during dynamic climate changes? 2) Early dog domestication. When, where, and how did dogs originate? 3) Holocene dog. How did dogs evolve and adapt to changing human societies?
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