At the invitation of assistant professor Zhang Dongju from College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University and Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems, Ministry of Education, China, Dr Frido Welker from University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, will come to Lanzhou University for academic visit and give an academic report entitled “Palaeoproteomics for Human Evolution”. Welcome!
Time: on Monday, November 25, 2019, at 9:00 a.m.
Site: Lecture room 502, Qiliantang, Lanzhou University
Lecturer profile:
Dr Frido Welker is an assistant professor of Denmark and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany. He specializes in human evolution, paleoproteomics, Homo and Hominini proteins, and bioarchaeology. Dr Welker graduated from the archaeology of Leiden university in 2012 and obtained a master's degree in biological archaeology from the York University in 2013 and a doctoral degree from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany in 2016. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and University of Copenhagen. He was awarded the Tubingen Ice Age Research Prize by the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in 2018 and the Otto Hahn award for outstanding young scientist by the Max Planck Institute in 2019. He has published more than 20 papers in major international journals, including 3 papers published as the first author or co-author in the journal Nature.
Representative achievements:
1. Welker F, Ramos-Madrigal J, Kuhlwilm M, et al. Enamel proteome shows that Gigantopithecus was an early diverging pongine. Nature, 2019: 1-4.
2. Chen F H, Welker F, Shen C C, et al. A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau. Nature, 2019, 569(7756): 409-412. Cited 22 times.
3. Welker F, Hajdinjak M, Talamo S, et al. Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016, 113(40): 11162-11167. Cited 75 times.
4. Welker F, Collins M J, Thomas J A, et al. Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin' s South American ungulates. Nature, 2015, 522(7554): 81-84. Cited 147 times.
