Matthias Meyer

For the Austrian alpine ski racer, see Matthias Mayer.

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.^[1]

Matthias Meyer
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemist Geneticist
Institutions	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Doctoral advisors	Michael Hofreiter
Notable students	Marie-Theres Gansauge
Website	www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/advanced-dna-sequencing-techniques/overview.html

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.^[2][3][4] 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.^[5][6][7]