Latest posts tagged with #aDNA on Bluesky
Join us Friday 27th March at ** 9am GMT ** for our AaRC TikTalk seminar, given this month by two exciting Australian-based researchers Loukas Koungoulos (dingos!) and Siobhan Evans (cave sediment!) #adna @aarc-community.bsky.social
Still time to sign up! Join us in this 3-hour workshop led by @jolijnerven.bsky.social to hear about methods and approaches to explore relatedness in #aDNA datasets.
From #Genes to #History: between February 25–27, 2026, participants of the #HistoGenes #ERC Synergy Project—including our colleagues— met in Vienna at a final conference to share their most important findings.
Read more: bit.ly/4re8DGJ
#AncientGenomics #ancientDNA #aDNA #anthropology #archaeology
New #preprint with Carina Schlebusch
@cschlebu.bsky.social
as one of the co-authors: #Ancient #Pathogen #Genomics in #Africa–Current Evidence and Future Directions. #humanpast #genetics #paleogenomics #aDNA www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
It's #MetagenomicsMonday again! 🧬🧬🧬Ancient #HHV-6 #genomes revealed that modern HHV-6 diversity was already established centuries ago and that germline integrations stem from ancient founder events.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#SPAAM #aDNA #sixthdisease #roseola #pathogens #viruses #evolution
The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data:
Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Phylogenetic and dating analysis of ancient and modern sheeppox virus. A. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of ancient and modern SPPV genomes with ≥5× coverage, rooted using LSDV and GTPV. Nodes with bootstrap support of 100 are indicated by blue circles; other bootstrap values are shown at the corresponding nodes. Clades composed exclusively of modern genomes are collapsed and shown as triangles, and branches corresponding to ancient genomes are highlighted in pink. The grey box delineates the SPPV clade. B. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of SPPV genomes with placement of low-coverage ancient samples using PathPhynder (Martiniano et al., 2022). For clarity, only the SPPV portion of the phylogeny is shown. Samples are coloured by material type, and low-coverage genomes (<5×) placed using PathPhynder are indicated by red triangles. Nodes with bootstrap support of 100 are marked with blue circles; other values are shown at the corresponding nodes. Tip labels indicate sampling location and calibrated historical date. Host species, sequencing coverage, and sample age are shown as a heatmap adjacent to the tips. C. Time-calibrated Bayesian phylogeny of the SPPV clade, with samples coloured according to material type.
Biopathocodicology?? 🦠🧬🐑 (1/4)
Check out this groundbreaking new #aDNA #pathology paper by @louis-lhote.bsky.social @gingerhowley.bsky.social and colleagues!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our paper "Old goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland", is now online at the Journal of Archaeological Science! #aDNA
Registration is now open for our next online AaRCademy workshop focusing on relatedness! #aDNA
#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!
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
Lopopolo et al. 2026, statement on clinical significance of establishing M. lepromatosis' historical depth and geographic distribution: "From a biomedical standpoint, the most immediate implication of these findings is that M. lepromatosis is not a recent or geographically marginal agent, but a deeply diversified pathogen whose lineages reflect long-term persistence and dispersal across the Americas. This matters because deep genomic divergence, within M. lepromatosis and between M. lepromatosis and M. leprae, can plausibly translate into phenotypic differences relevant to clinical care, including variation in virulence, immune recognition, host range, and possibly response to treatment."
Overview study on Mycobacterium lepromatosis--the "new" species of leprosy-- by @marialopopolo.bsky.social Charlotte Avanzi, & @nrascovan.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Important observations on the clinical implications of these historical findings. #OneHealth #histmed #aDNA
New #aDNA Paper Alert from @martynamolak.bsky.social and team!
In the #LateRomanPeriod #Masłomęcz, now in eastern Poland, gathered people from all corners of Europe!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ancient DNA 🧬 from a 1,700-year-old Tashtyk funerary mannequin reveals lost plant biodiversity 🌾in southern Siberia, highlighting the conservation value of this UNESCO-listed region.
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #conservation #ecology #biodiversity
🧬 Two pathogens, one disease.
Leprosy cannot be understood as a single-pathogen disease.
Understanding this duality is critical for modern case detection, surveillance, and long-term control strategies.
A commentary with @nrascovan.bsky.social and @avanzich.bsky.social
#Leprosy #OneHealth #aDNA
Enjoyed our @icarehb.bsky.social seminar yesterday diving into the exciting work we have been developing @matrixerc.bsky.social on DNA taphonomy! A real proud PI moment seeing this come together and push our understanding of DNA in sediments & soils forward. #DNATaphonomy #aDNA #TeamScience
Exciting new #aDNA study on genetic relatedness in Neolithic hunter‑gatherer co‑burials is now published in #ProcB @royalsociety.org 🏺🧬🧪
Great team involving our own T. Mattila, M. Fraser, J. Koelman, M. Jakobsson, @trstrstrs.bsky.social and H. Malmström
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Reading tips: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Nature #aDNA #farmers #huntergatherers #genomics #ancestry #humanpast #Europe #bellbeaker #humanevolution
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...
Ancient walnuts 🌰 tell a Silk Road story! Genome-wide data 🧬 from Tang Dynasty Xinjiang walnuts reveal a transitional genetic stage linking Central Asia and China in a new study published in Cell Reports.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #ancientDNA #silkroad #paleobotany
New preprint on #aDNA 🧬 from Iberian sheep 🐑 by our former PhD student @hjorvik.bsky.social
"Seven Millennia of Human Exploitation drove genomic Changes in Iberian Sheep"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Recovering Mycobacterium tuberculosis 🦠 from ancient samples is notoriously difficult. But, in this new study, the elusive M. tuberculosis DNA was detected in five individuals from medieval Ireland.
doi.org/10.1016/j.tu...
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #paleogenomics #tuberculosis #TB #pathogen
🚨 Dear SPAAM Community, we are extending the deadline for the Blog Post Competition 📝. The new date is March 16th 2026! We have received some exciting submissions. 📢 Keep it coming!
www.spaam-community.org/news/2025/11...
#aDNA #SPAAM #sciencecommunication #blog #ancientDNA #paleogenetics
The last chapter of my thesis is out as a preprint in @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social! In it we used #aDNA to describe 7000 years of sheep demography in Iberia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Really excited to see this paper out! We hope it will be a valuable resource for the paleogenomics community, especially given the recent surge in studies using aDNA to infer natural selection. Huge kudos to @anchieri.bsky.social for the outstanding work 👏
#aDNA
Please get in contact if you are interested in studying the evolution of plants and their pathogens combining contemporary and ancient DNA! #aDNA Check our latest publications here: www.burbanolab.org/publications
The Altai wasn’t just home to Denisovans. 🏔️🧬Ancient DNA revealed unexpected bovine diversity 🦬, including a mysterious yak-like lineage (yak "X") now seemingly lost to time.
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
#MetagenomicsMonday #ancientDNA #aDNA #paleogenomics #zooarchaeology #denisovacave #altai
