New paper alert 🚨
A study led by #CPGSthlm researchers found DNA from a bear in 9.6k year old lake sediments. This potentially rewrites the history of brown bears in Scandinavia! 🧬🐻🐾🏔️🧊
Check @officialernst.bsky.social thread 👉
bsky.app/profile/offi...
OA article 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Cristina smiling
ICP2026 flyer
Meet our keynote speakers 💁♂️
CRISTINA VALDIOSERA (@universidadburgos.bsky.social)
Cristina is a leading expert in ancient human DNA, focusing on the genomic history of past populations and the impact of cultural shifts on human evolution.
Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
📢 Next #HAAMeeting at #ICP2026! @palaeogenomics.bsky.social
🗓 June 22
📍Stockholm 🇸🇪 (hybrid)
🎤 Poster presenters + no-talk attendees: apply for a flash talk by May 27:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More info coming soon 👀
haam-community.github.io/events/2026/...
#ancientDNA #paleogenomics
DNAharvester's workflow.
We present DNAharvester 🎉🦴🚜🧬
A pipeline to process highly degraded ancient DNA data that integrates metagenomic filtering, competitive mapping, multiple alignment strategies, reference bias evaluation and much more.
GitHub: github.com/NBISweden/DN...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Ed showing a replica of a skull.
ICP2026 flyer
Meet our keynote speakers 💁♂️
RICHARD GREEN (UCSC Paleogenomics Lab)
Ed is a pioneer in developing novel molecular and computational approaches to recover, sequence, and analyze DNA from challenging, low-quality samples.
Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
Come join us in Stockholm as a PhD student for the next 4 years!
How did catastrophic black death and myxomatosis outbreaks on an isolated island affect the genomes of humans & rabbits, respectively?
And how did the microbes evolve in response to this?
PhD position @cpgsthlm.bsky.social with Anders Götherström and me as supervisors!
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Congrats to the team 🎉
Here are some interesting popsci summaries of the article's findings.
@eurekalert.bsky.social www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
@theconversation.com theconversation.com/el-adn-de-un...
Maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogeny of Mycobacterium leprae.
Microscopy image of Mycobacterium leprae.
By investigating the presence of pathogens in the remains, the authors detected one individual carrying Mycobacterium leprae 🦠 (the bacteria responsible for leprosy), providing insight into the health of medieval Ibiza societies.
Plan of the excavation. The analysed burials are shown in red.
Aerial view of the cemetery, which was discovered by chance during construction works.
Their results also reveal direct genetic links to Senegambia and southern Chad, showing that medieval Ibiza was connected to wider trans-Saharan networks.
These data match historical sources describing Almoravid movements, military recruitment, and slave and trade networks across the Sahara.
Map of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages, showing the Islamic areas of influence and Ibiza.
Ricardo, lead author of the article, processing one of the samples in the lab.
New paper alert 🚨
Researchers at #CPGStlhm have analyzed ancient genomes from an Islamic cemetery in Ibiza (950–1150 CE) 🏖️
They found a highly diverse community with ancestry from Europe and North Africa!
The paper was published in @natcomms.nature.com
OA link www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dogs were established as distinct species already during Ice Age. New study in Nature has uncovered earliest genetic evidence for the existence of dogs and indicates that dogs were widely distributed by 14,000 years ago across large geographic areas. @cpgsthlm.bsky.social www.su.se/english/news...
Trots att brunbjörnen nästan utrotades i början på 1900-talet så har varken inavelsgraden eller individernas genetiska variation påverkats. Detta överraskande resultat kan troligtvis förklaras med genetiskt utbyte via vandrande hanbjörnar. Studie från @cpgsthlm.bsky.social
www.su.se/nyheter/nyhe...
Check out our bear-y cool paper about Scandinavian brown bears published today in Royal Society Open Science!🐻 More about it in the thread🧵 @cpgsthlm.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Two palaeogeneticists traveling to Northern Yukon's wilderness in search of extremely old DNA 🧊🧬🧪
A mysterious permafrost mummy hidden in the collections 🦴🕵️
An Agatha Christie book 📖
@gog1693.bsky.social behind-the-scenes story on his paper has EVERYTHING!
Paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meet our keynote speakers 💁♂️
PONTUS SKOGLUND (@crick.ac.uk)
Pontus is a leader in developing cutting-edge computational methods and statistical tools for the analysis of highly degraded ancient DNA.
Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
Meet our keynote speakers 💁♂️
LUCY VAN DORP (@ugiatucl.bsky.social)
Lucy is a leading expert in ancient microbe research, using ancient DNA to reconstruct the origins, evolution, and spread of major human pathogens throughout history.
Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
Congrats to Alicia Muriel and Michael Mitschke for successfully presenting their research in Half-Time PhD seminars!! 🎉🐑🐝🧬
Kelsey is presenting her research.
Hannah is presenting her research.
@knmoreland.bsky.social and @mootspoints.bsky.social are currently presenting their mammoth research at the International Conference of Mammoths and their Relatives (ICMR) 🦣🐘🧬 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Read our new paper in Genome Biology & Evolution to learn more about how sequencing the genome from a 14,000 year old wolf puppy's last meal yielded novel insights into the woolly rhino's extinction:
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
📷 Mietje Germonpré
Congrats to @knmoreland.bsky.social for the successful Half Time PhD seminar 🎉🦣🧬
WOW❗🤯
The amount and quality of the abstracts we've received have completely blown us away! More than 300 abstracts from researchers at all levels and from 33 countries.
We will communicate the selected talks and open registration soon 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
#ICP2026 will be UNMISSABLE 😍💪
Aerial image of Riddarholmen, a small island part of Gamla Stan, the historical centre of Stockholm.
ICP2026 flyer
LAST CALL ☎️
Abstract submission for #ICP2026 closes on November 30th❗
Don't miss the opportunity to showcase your exciting ancient DNA research next summer 🦴🦣🐕👨🔬🧬
Abstract submission and more info here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
We are looking forward to welcoming you to beautiful Stockholm!
Beth smiles at the camera.
ICP2026 flyer
Meet our plenary speakers 💁♂️
BETH SHAPIRO (@ucscgenomics.bsky.social)
Beth is a leader in the study of ancient DNA from extinct species and is now trying to develop tools to de-extinct prehistoric life.
Conference info 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
⚠️ Abstract submission closing soon, 30th Nov! ⚠️
⏰ The clock is ticking❗
LESS THAN 10 DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts (30th Nov).
Do it here👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/
Many of you are asking for the registration fees 💸. We are still working out the details, but we estimate 400-500€ for regular attendees and 300-400€ for students.
Our manuscript on bovine deep-time paleogenomics at Denisova Cave and in the broader mid-latitude Asia is online! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... 🦬🦴🧬
Main findings in the 🧵 below ⬇️
@cpgsthlm.bsky.social @genomebiolevol.bsky.social #aDNA
🦣 🤯 🦣 🤯 🦣
Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Christina Warinner posing for a picture.
ICO2026 info flyer
Meet our plenary speakers 💁♂️
CHRISTINA WARINNER (@harvard.edu)
@christinawarinner.bsky.social investigates ancient microbiomes to reveal insights into the diets and health of past human populations.
Conference info 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
⚠️ Abstract submission open! (deadline 30th Nov) ⚠️
Professor Ian Barnes casually poses for a picture
ICP2026 flyer
Meet our plenary speakers 💁♂️
IAN BARNES, Professor at
@nhm-london.bsky.social
Ian is a pioneer in the use of #ancientDNA to investigate evolution and extinction in Late Pleistocene mammals and other wild fauna.
Full info👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
⚠️Abstract submission open! (deadline 30th Nov)
