These days I am attending #AABA2026 in Denver! Super excited to give a talk this afternoon on our recent work! Come to Plaza A at 3.45 PM if you are interested 🧬🦠🎙️
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Really happy to share our new preprint on the co-occurrance of Y.pestis and Erysipelothrix spp. during prehistory. 🔥🔥🔥
In the study, we find the earliest evidence to date of Y.pestis in Southern Europe and 60 new Erysipelothrix genomes spanning 20k years 🦠🐄🚶‍♂️⌛
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

@madeleinethrl.bsky.social @lehtisaag.bsky.social @alenakushniarevich.bsky.social @masterolojist.bsky.social

Sometimes is nice to take a day to focus on team spirit. Today the archaeogenomics group took advantage of the sun and went hiking and then made some nice little clay cups. I feel so grateful and recharged ❄️☀️♥️

#genomicstartu #archaeogenomics #teamspirit

No worries...and again, thanks for the post! :)

Hi! I am the first author of the paper and I am flattered you wrote about it. I wanted to let you know that my first name is wrong in your post. It's Biancamaria, not Beatrice.
Let me know if you can solve the issue :)

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Thank you so much!!🥰

Congraaats 🥳🔥

So glad to have such brilliant friends ♥️

🚨JOB ALERT!🚨

Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics!

Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬

Apply here:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

Come to my poster at #ISBA11 today!!
Number 92 🥰🔥

It was a blast ♥️

This study underscores the value of exploring diverse substrates in the search for preserved biomolecules. By showing that microbial DNA and proteins can survive in these overlooked deposits, our research highlights how different surfaces and contexts influence preservation. 🪨

Palaeoproteomic analysis of the same samples confirmed the preservation of proteins from the very same oral microbiome species detected through DNA. This demonstrates the power of combining aDNA and protein analysis to build a more complete picture of ancient biological substrates.👩‍🔬➕

We manage to reconstruct two complete Anaerolinaceae bacterium oral taxon 439 genomes. Phylogenetic placement demonstrates their affinity with other contemporary Italian strains, falling in a well-defined clade containing Bronze age and Neolithic strains!

The concretions and the original human elements lacked endogenous human aDNA, limiting their utility for human-specific molecular analyses. Despite this, the sediment concretions contained high-quality ancient oral microbial genomes 🦠🧬

We extracted ancient DNA and proteins in tandem from both the human dental remains and the adhered concretions. We then compared the results to additional non concreted skeletal samples for context.

These concretions are commonly found on archaeological human remains in certain regions (e.g., Neolithic Puglia), yet they've largely been overlooked as a potential source of molecular data—until now.

Ancient microbial DNA and proteins preserve in concretions covering human remains Microbiome; Omics; Proteomics; Archeology

🚨Thrilled to share our new paper!!
We were able to retrieve ancient DNA and proteins from layers of sediment attached to the skeletal remains of individuals from a Neolithic site from Southern Italy 💀🧬🦠
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Help us give a warm welcome to our newest #SPAAM7 invited speaker, Keri Burge! 🙌

Catch her talk on August 26th — live in Turin or online!

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Go check out @oskolkov.bsky.social project and research if you are interested in working with a great scientist (and in a beautiful city 🇱🇻) ⬇️⬇️

I am starting a computational lab at LIOS, Riga, Latvia, and going to recruit a few people. Please DM if you are interested in a postdoc or PhD position in my Metabolic Research Group within the TARGETWISE project. I can highly recommend Riga, it is a beautiful city with very good living conditions.

Excited about microbes, ancient DNA, methods and meeting other fellow researchers??

Join us in Turin!! 🔥

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Pre-European contact leprosy in the Americas and its current persistence Leprosy, primarily caused by Mycobacterium leprae, is considered a disease introduced into the Americas during European colonization. However, the recent discovery of a second pathogen causing leprosy...

Did leprosy exist in the Americas before European invasion? Our lab #aDNA study at @institutpasteur.bsky.social supervised by @nrascovan.bsky.social in collab with @avanzich.bsky.social (CSU) finds M.lepromatosis in pre-colonial Ancestors from North and South America www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Grateful for this opportunity!! 🦠👩‍💻
The microARCH lab has already welcomed me in the best way!
Super excited for the months to come 🤩🔥
#staytuned

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