My first first-author paper is out! 🪇🥳📣 An opinion paper where we discuss the potential of #sedaDNA for answering key archaeological questions. #ancientDNA #archaeology 🧬⛏️🧺 Pere Gelabert Ezgi Altınışık Neeke Hammers Arjen de Groot Gertjan Plets Constructing the Limes link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Researchers at CPG are excited to share our new paper introducing a new tool for scrutinising #ancientDNA data - AMBER - and using this tool to examine reference genome alignment bias. doi.org/10.1093/bioinf…

I am very happy to be at #SMBE2024 to receive the amazing news that we are bringing #SMBE2026 to Copenhagen!! Thanks for the vote of trust OfficialSMBE

Plague was surprisingly abundant and widespread in Scandinavia in the period leading up to the Neolithic Decline. In fact, we found plague in 17% of the sampled population. Check out our new paper out in Nature today! nature.com/articles/s4158… #plague #NeolithicDecline #ancientDNA

Today’s issue of Cell has 2 mammoth papers (w. CPG staff)! Marcela Sandoval-Velasco et al. presents a discovery of 3D structure in the Chris Waddle mammoth genome: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… Marianne Dehasque et al. disentangles the mammoth’s extinction using 21 genomes: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

CPG researchers (and friends) have been presenting and hanging out at the excellent #SMBE2024 conference in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico! 🇲🇽

The GEOEO Expedition, with SvenskPolarforskning and icebreaker Oden, is now at 82 degrees latitude steaming north (well... at 2 knots). And we just made an amazing discovery! A large pod of c. 50 narwhals, which most likely have never seen humans before! 🧵with 2 videos

Yesterday, our team from #CpgSthlm recovered a 2-metre lake bottom sediment core from Nares Land on northern Greenland (82 deg N). The project is part of the #GEOEO Expedition organised by SvenskPolarforskning, and aims to study Greenland’s prehistory using ancient DNA.

New evidence from 10th-century Spanish remains hints that #Smallpox may have spread from central and northern Europe to Iberia, shedding light on medieval disease transmission. #History #Archaeology science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Postdoc opportunity at Centre for Palaeogenetics!

Prepping for our last field work of the fall to the Sahtu region next week. We’ve built a new 4” drill for our partners at K’asho Got’ine (not pictured) as they build their permafrost monitoring capacity, and will test this portable 3” to take cores to 2 m. All custom (read $$).

Watch Icebreaker Oden slam into, and even jumping onto, the >4 metre multiyear ice of the Lincoln Sea! 💪💪💪 No ship has ever been here before… Our team from #CpgSthlm is onboard, collecting ancient DNA samples along the N Greenland coast. #GEOEO Expedition SvenskPolarforskning

Excited to share the second paper of my PhD, published in @SciAdvances! We made the cover 🏅! Medieval #smallpox 🦠, #zoonoses 🐷, #kinship and #ancestry 🧬 from the Las Gobas necropolis in Northern Spain. A thread 🧶! doi.org/10.1126/sciadv… #AncientPathogens #aDNA