Congratulations to Dr Kelly Blevins on winning a prestigious Wellcome Early Career Award!
Kelly will be using the fellowship to combine ancient DNA and palaeopathology to uncover the extinct genomic architecture of the wider Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. This will address a fundamental question in evolutionary medicine and biology: how do obligate pathogens evolve in response to human behaviour?
Learn more about Kelly's project: 'Exploring the contribution of social inequality to the evolution of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex across five millennia'
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