Audrey Lin, DPhil

The old Irish goat is a living link to Ireland’s Bronze Age Study shows distinct breed has genetic links to goats that lived in Ireland 3,000 years ago

Our work on ancient Irish goat was covered in the Irish Times.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Registration is now open for our next online AaRCademy workshop focusing on relatedness! #aDNA

AMAZING WORK, ALL!!!

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Can safely way this is the craziest and coolest study I have led. We chart the evolution of sheeppox virus, finding it in the Eurasian steppe ~3700 years ago, and also in a LOT of parchment from medieval Europe (made from a range of animals skins!) #aDNA

Myself and authors 1 & 2 of our SPPV pre-print at Cambridge, where several of the sheeppox-positive parchment are conserved. @louis-lhote.bsky.social and Luisa Sacristán.

(www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...)

In order to register, follow the link in our website: animal-adna.org/events/2026/...

#AaRCademy is back with another animal #aDNA workshop. This time, @jolijnerven.bsky.social will showcase the state-of-the-art methods to explore the relatedness between our samples. Join us online on April 16th, 14:00 CET!

"I’ve spent almost a decade of my life training and working on my research, & this is what I’ve chosen to dedicate my life to. And I have to go where I can do this." - @undeaddandy.bsky.social in this #TIME piece on the Austrian #APARTUSA program

Glad to have you, Audrey!
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Happy to be here❣️

Please spread the word, and get in touch with me if you are interested or have questions! We have a great team here, and we're looking for great people to join. :) We will be reviewing applications as the come in, so apply soon, and please by March 1st.

We are seeking two students: One would develop computational methods for the analysis of ancient DNA from sediments, and apply these tools to novel datasets. The second would generate and analyze aDNA data from archaeological sediments at a number of Holocene sites.

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...

Thanks Pedro!!

Audrey Lin joins Faculty of Life Sciences through APART-USA Fellowship Audrey Lin is one of six U.S. researchers from leading American universities who will soon continue their work at the University of Vienna. Their relocation has been made possible by the APART-USA fel...

Welcoming University of Vienna's first #APARTUSA fellow: Audrey Lin. 🥳 @undeaddandy.bsky.social
She is an evolutionary molecular biologist who studies animals and viruses. 🦠
Thanks to the APART-USA fellowship program she will be able to bring her project from the @amnh.org in New York to #univie. ⤵️

It's that time again... AaRCTikTalk this Friday!! Anne Runge will talk about microbial/pathogen DNA from prehistoric faunal remains🦠🦴🧬, & Anna Nagel will explore multispecies time calibrations! 🧬🕰️ Hurray! Don't miss it! 🕺 @aarc-community.bsky.social

bb goatboy!

New #AaRC Blog entry from @aarc-community.bsky.social where we interviewed Dr. @tatianafeuerborn.bsky.social about her research project on the genetic legacy of Greenland's sled dogs (Qimmit) she presented in January 2026 #AaRCTikTalks.

#Greenland #Dog #aDNA

www.animal-adna.org/blog/2026/01...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Home for the next 4 years! Thank you to @univie.ac.at & @oeaw.bsky.social 🧬

📢 Announcing the speakers for the @aarc-community.bsky.social TikTalk seminar for January 2026! Look forward to hearing from @tatianafeuerborn.bsky.social and Arianna Weingarten, presenting on their work on Greenland Sled Dog 🐶 and Middle Pleistocene (!) horses 🐴 respectively. Exciting! Join us!

New York Times, January 16, 1995. For as long as there has been diversity in Star Trek, straight white men have been complaining that it's too woke / PC / whatever. This phenomenon predates VOYAGER, of course, but it hit that series especially hard.

THANKYOU to our amazing #PAG33 OneHealth Hologenomics speakers @keyfm.bsky.social @dsussfeld.bsky.social @annakovalenko.bsky.social @akang3705.bsky.social Kristina Kordova & Anders Götherström! Ancient plague & parvovirus! AMR genes! Bat ectoparasite microbiomes! & the clap is thriving in the USA! 🎉

You gotta show the internet now!

A German Shepherd and a chihuahua relax together in the grass. Stock photo.

A collection of articles from The Genetics of Canine Domestication, Migration, and Behavior Special Feature highlights research on the evolutionary history of dogs and the genetic basis of dog behavior. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/vLlW50XAO6A

This is Logan Kistler's dog Tilly on the cover of the PNAS this week!!!!

Deep discordance between dog and wolf phylogenies according to uniparental markers.

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “A legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/o7mB50XC7F4

For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/TAVp50XC7F1.

❗ Our RemAaRCs: on Mutualism - The Science of Interrelatedness has a new date and time ❗

3-5pm London time / 4-6pm CET / 10-12am ET

@aarc-community.bsky.social #aDNA

So excited for this!!!!!

Evidence of sheeppox in 17th-19th century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage Epizootic outbreaks posed major threats to food security, economic stability, and animal welfare in past communities. While these events and their impacts are well documented in historical records, ve...

Despite my insomnia, I'm very happy to share our preprint: a multi-disciplinary assessment of a sheep mass mortality event from ~18th century France. We report the first ancient sheeppox virus (think smallpox) and the Taenia hydatigena (nasty roundworm) genomes.
#aDNA