Christina Warinner

Check out our new article in Current Anthropology on the changing landscape of archaeological publishing! www.doi.org/10.1086/739789

Congratulations to Akari for completing her postdoc on traditional dairying in Mongolia in the FSU Microverse Cluster at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology and starting a new professorship at Okayama University!

CARTA: Human Microbiome Evolution with Christina Warinner YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV)

New video of talk by @christinawarinner.bsky.social given at Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny posted by @ucsandiego.bsky.social explaining how advances in #aDNA and #proteomics can investigate the complex and diverse microbial communities from dental calculus

Jobs - Balance of the Microverse

New 2-year Postdoc: Ancient #Metagenomics & #Microbiome Sciences! 🧬🦷

Join Prof. @christinawarinner.bsky.social ’s group at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social to study the evolution and ecology of ancient oral microbiota.

📅 Apply by Jan 20, 2026: www.microverse-cluster.de/en/career/jo...

Important Announcement: EAA Special Meeting
The European Archaeological Association will hold a Special Meeting to discuss the organisation’s governance and future direction.
- 🗓 Friday, 9 Jan 2026
- ⏰ 14:00–17:00 CET
Online voting will take place on 16–31 Jan 2026
www.e-a-a.org/EAA/News___P...

Check out our new ancient DNA article on the deep time evolution of antimicrobial peptides in the oral microbiome! Learn more about actifensins and test out our new software tool, AMPcombi! A big congratulations especially to Anan and Rosa for all their hard work on this!
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What an inspiring CARTA Symposium on “Ancient DNA: New Revelations”! Thank you so much to the whole CARTA organizational team for making it possible!

So proud to be among the speakers addressing “What it means to be human” at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology symposium!

We're so excited to share our newest ancient DNA findings on hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in Kazakhstan!

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So excited to learn about the work Henny Piezonka is doing on reindeer!

We're so happy to share our newest ancient DNA findings in Mongolia on the Slab Grave expansion and its consequences for diverse Bronze Age pastoralists! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

We're organizing a new CARTA symposium this November 7 on "Ancient DNA: New Revelations"! We have an amazing lineup of speakers who will showcase the biggest discoveries in ancient DNA over the past 5 years - and offer a sneak peek of what's next. Mark your calendars and don't miss it!

Having the best time at the Stanford Fermented Food Conference! From kimchi to koji to sauerkraut, this was the tastiest conference I’ve ever attended! A big thank you to the Sonnenburg lab for organizing, and it was so great to see Rob Dunn and Rachel Dutton again!

And that’s a wrap! Congratulations to the entire ISBA community for a successful ISBA11!

Oh boy - we opened this year’s ISBA meetings in a Roman amphitheater!

The Warinner Group and collaborators having fun at ISBA11 in Torino, Italy!

We have a new article out in Cell! Learn more about plague in prehistoric livestock: "Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage A Yersinia pestis genome from a Bronze Age domesticated sheep provides insight into the host range, evolution, and possible transmission scenarios of an ancient lineage of the plague-causing bacteria,...

Ancient Yersinia pestis genome discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth sheds new light on a mysterious infectious disease that plagued prehistoric Eurasia. New research by @keyfm.bsky.social and @i-light-maka.bsky.social now published in @cellpress.bsky.social: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

New article in the Harvard Gazette about how we’re persevering despite funding cuts

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I'll be presenting our research on ancient food fermentations at the upcoming Stanford Fermented Food Conference on September 4-5, 2025. Join us to learn more about our recent findings on Roman wine and ancient Himalayan beer!

There will be yeast and LAB genomes! med.stanford.edu/nutrition/ev...

Warinner lab undergraduate researcher Juliet Garon recently presented her summer research that builds foundational knowledge for the use of protein mass spectrometry to understand human respiratory diseases and immune response before the antibiotic era. Congratulations Juliet!

Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

Postdoc James Fellows Yates has won the Dawn Field Award for Outstanding Contributions to Genomic Standards at this year’s Genomics Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Cambridge, UK! Congratulations, James! We couldn’t be more proud!

Want to learn more about the cutting edge of ancient microbial metagenomics and the evolutionary history of Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria? Join us this Thursday for I-Ting’s PhD defense on “Microbial evolution through the lens of metagenomics and paleogenomics”!

It's not every day you get to see the summer solstice sunset at a 7,000-year-old woodhenge! Yay for the Sonnenobservatorium in Goseck!

Just finished our summer retreat for the Paleobiotechnology research group at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology HKI. We had so much fun charting the future of ancient microbial genomes with the aim of developing better antimicrobial therapies for the future.

Our official photo from the Nobel Symposium - what a blast! It was so incredible to learn about all the amazing paleogenomics research happening right now!

It was so nice spending time with my colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology at our annual retreat at Ringberg Castle! What a treat!

Funding cuts to U.S. archaeology could imperil field’s future A Science analysis of canceled and curtailed federal grants reveals hits to research, collections, and training

A great news article in Science this week by Taylor Brown on the devastating effects of funding cuts by DOGE and the Trump Administration on American archaeology.

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‘Dragon Man’ skull belongs to mysterious human relative At long last, scientists have a nearly complete cranium from hominins known as Denisovans

Dental calculus is such a treasure trove!

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