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Gro Bjørnstad

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Gro Bjørnstad
ist Fachreferentin für forensische Genetik in der Abteilung für Forensische Biologie am Universitätsklinikum Oslo
Gro Bjørnstad, born in 1969, studied Zoology at the University of Oslo and holds a PhD in population genetics from the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science from 2001. After that she has been involved in different projects using genetic markers as tools for highlighting questions related to genetic variation and animal domestication, first at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, and later at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science and the University of Oslo. In 2003 she started working with DNA-analyses of archaeological material from animals, and from 2011 she was affiliated to the project "Thanatos: Dead bodies - live data", performing ancient aDNA analyses of human remains from funerary material from the Hellenistic-Roman-Byzantine town Hierapolis. During this project she also participated with aDNA analyses of Roman and Ottoman skeletons from Ephesos.

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