Matthias Meyer
{{short description|German geneticist}}
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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.{{cite web|last1=Leipzig|first1=Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology|title=Dept. of Genetics {{!}} Advanced DNA sequencing techniques {{!}} Group Staff|url=https://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/advanced-dna-sequencing-techniques/overview.html|website=www.eva.mpg.de|access-date=1 August 2020}}
Research
Meyer has developed methods that have improved the scope of DNA sequencing, including methods for indexing of sequencing libraries of double-stranded DNA and extraction of highly degraded DNA from sediments.{{cite news |last1=Ewen |first1=Callaway |title=Ancient-human genomes plucked from cave dirt |url=https://www.nature.com/news/ancient-human-genomes-plucked-from-cave-dirt-1.21910 |access-date=2 August 2020 |publisher=Nature}}{{cite journal| author=Meyer M, Kircher M| title=Illumina sequencing library preparation for highly multiplexed target capture and sequencing. | journal=Cold Spring Harbor Protocols | year= 2010 | volume= 2010 | issue= 6 | pages= pdb.prot5448 | pmid=20516186 | doi=10.1101/pdb.prot5448 | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20516186 }}{{cite journal| author=Rohland N, Glocke I, Aximu-Petri A, Meyer M| title=Extraction of highly degraded DNA from ancient bones, teeth and sediments for high-throughput sequencing. | journal=Nat Protoc | year= 2018 | volume= 13 | issue= 11 | pages= 2447–2461 | pmid=30323185 | doi=10.1038/s41596-018-0050-5 | s2cid=256839823 | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30323185 }} 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.{{cite journal| author=Meyer M, Kircher M, Gansauge MT, Li H, Racimo F, Mallick S | display-authors=etal| title=A high-coverage genome sequence from an archaic Denisovan individual. | journal=Science | year= 2012 | volume= 338 | issue= 6104 | pages= 222–6 | pmid=22936568 | doi=10.1126/science.1224344 | pmc=3617501 }}{{cite journal| author=Meyer M, Arsuaga JL, de Filippo C, Nagel S, Aximu-Petri A, Nickel B | display-authors=etal| title=Nuclear DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins. | journal=Nature | year= 2016 | volume= 531 | issue= 7595 | pages= 504–7 | pmid=26976447 | doi=10.1038/nature17405 | s2cid=4467094| url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26976447 }}{{cite news |last1=Bridget |first1=Alex |title=Ancient-human genomes plucked from cave dirt |url=https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/meet-the-denisovans |access-date=2 August 2020 |publisher=Discover Magazine}}
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