Martin Kuhlwilm

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

Great opportunity for a PhD in Vienna! Including aDNA and cats (with @peregx9.bsky.social)!

We have a new preprint! - "Ancient Pathogen Genomics in Africa – Current Evidence and Future Directions"

A review of current evidence, challenges, and opportunities for studying past epidemics and host–pathogen evolution using ancient DNA from African contexts.

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Job alert: open position for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London.

Based in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment of UCL, and UGI, and funded by the UCL Health Strategy.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... 🧪

Are you interested in human DNA from ancient sediments? Do you want to do a PhD in Vienna? We have two open positions in our group! You can learn more and apply here (scroll down to the very bottom, ours are the last two listings): careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...

Fully funded PhD studentship here with @katerinad.bsky.social on palaeoproteomics. Apply below!

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-Stud...

Postdoc position call @univie.ac.at - happy to host projects related to introgression, great ape genomics, and more!
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

Oh, look! A paper about the coolest piece of software I've ever built!

Tracing 2500 years of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B diversity through ancient DNA First ancient HHV-6 genomes reveal 2500 years of phylogenetic continuity and provide insights into the endogenization of HHV-6A.

New paper out in Science Advances:
Tracing 2500 years of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B diversity through ancient DNA
👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢 We're hiring a postdoc (33 months) in human evolutionary genomics / paleogenomics / statistical genetics, Paris 🇫🇷
Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs.
Start May 2026 (flexible).
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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Evaluating the effects of archaic protein-altering variants in living human adults Promise and pitfalls of using large biobanks to study impacts of archaic protein-coding variants in living humans.

How did DNA changes that alter protein structures impact evolution on the branch that led to modern humans? As we demonstrate today in Science Advances, biobanking initiatives offer ways to directly assess biological effects of rare archaic variants in living people, & (re)evaluate their roles. 🧬🧪

Determining the driving factors shaping genetic architecture of complex traits in recently admixed populations Understanding the genetic architecture of complex traits in admixed populations remains challenging due to heterogeneous genetic backgrounds and demographic histories. Mischaracterizing admixture can ...

Preprint online right before the holidays! Excited to share the first piece of work from the Zhang Lab, led by my absolutely stellar postdoc Michelle Kim! In this work, we ask how admixture, selection and demography shape complex trait genetics and GWAS performance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Reminder: you dont have to be "morally perfect" to defend that women must have the same rights and opportunities than men.

@kuhlwilm.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing Irene Gallego Romero @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social for the #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics taking place now online and in-person at @univie.ac.at

Lab meetings in Max Planck institutes

Lovely is the right adjective. Writing this was so enjoyable in the company of @acstone.bsky.social @blevinske.bsky.social and Verena Schuenemann. Hope you enjoy.

Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes - Nature The genomes of 28 ancient southern African individuals dated to between 10,200 and 150 years before present offer insights into the evolution of Homo sapiens.

Our new ancient DNA paper has just been published!
We present 28 new genomes from southern Africa - several of them high-coverage whole genomes.
Exciting to be moving towards population-level representation of ancient southern African genetic diversity!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SAI: A Python Package for Statistics for Adaptive Introgression Abstract. Adaptive introgression is an important evolutionary process, which can be identified with widely used summary statistics, such as the number of u

Huang, @kuhlwilm.bsky.social et al. present SAI, a Python package for computing introgression statistics, and demonstrate its application in two datasets.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf295

#evobio #molbio #compbio

SAI: A Python Package for Statistics for Adaptive Introgression Abstract. Adaptive introgression is an important evolutionary process, which can be identified with widely used summary statistics, such as the number of u

And another paper from the admixlab: SAI - statistics for adaptive introgression!
doi.org/10.1093/molb...

A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity Scientific Data - A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity

Paper out now: A curated dataset of the great ape genome diversity!
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Next paper published in the @hpgg-pivot.bsky.social special issue on popgen methods and software!

Coll Macià & Skov "Best practices and pitfalls in using hmmix for reference-free detection of introgressed sequences"

doi.org/10.47248/hpg...

Submission for contributions still open to 15 January!

🚨Join us tomorrow, on 18th of November 2025 from 15:00 – 16:00 h in the Seminar Room 3.1 at UBB for an impromptu RMS!🚨
& stay tuned for more End-of-the-Year events! 🎄

There is still time to register for this event, taking place online and in-person in the #UBB at @univie.ac.at

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So proud to see our new paper out in PNAS spearheaded by @emilypigott.bsky.social She found a tiny 46,000 yr old Neanderthal bone at Starosele (Crimea). DNA work revealed long-distance connections across Eurasia, supported by stone tool evidence @heasvienna.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper on a late Neanderthal, with contribution from the lab:
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Faces of different guenon species to show their morphological differences

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

Monty Python understood p-hacking

An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their ancestry from a deep lineage ...

In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time.

www.cell.com/current-biol...