Matthias Meyer is a German
evolutionary geneticist working primarily with
ancient DNA. Meyer is the leader of the Advanced DNA sequencing techniques group at the
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (german: Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, shortened to MPI EVA) is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, that was founded in 1997. It is part of the Max Plan ...
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Research
Meyer has developed methods that have improved the scope of
DNA sequencing
DNA sequencing is the process of determining the nucleic acid sequence – the order of nucleotides in DNA. It includes any method or technology that is used to determine the order of the four bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. Th ...
, including methods for indexing of sequencing libraries of double-stranded DNA and extraction of highly degraded DNA from sediments.
His work has been instrumental for the generation of the first high-quality genome sequences from
archaic humans as well as the recovery of the oldest DNA sequences known to date from fossils not discovered in permafrost.
References
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German geneticists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology