Centre for Palaeogenetics

Centre for Palaeogenetics

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CPG brings scientists from diverse disciplines together in a state-of-the-art aDNA research facility, and is jointly run by Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History. More info: https://www.palaeogenetics.com

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Love Dalén
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🚨 Ancient DNA Alert 🚨 Do you depend on BWA aln, and worry that the world’s HPC clusters are pivoting towards GPUs? Fear no more! We here present G-ALN, a GPU implementation that is >6 times faster and produces byte-identical outputs to BWA aln! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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David Díez del Molino 🇪🇸🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈
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Reminder that I'm looking for a postdoc to work on woolly mammoth genomics 🦣🧬 Join us for the coolest project ever! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

David Díez del Molino 🇪🇸🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈@indianadiez.bsky.social

🚨 #postdoc alert ❤️‍🔥 I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group at @cpgsthlm.bsky.social and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social working on #woollymammoth genomics 🦣🦴🧬✨ Deadline: 30th Nov. +Info about the position 👉 www.su.se/english/divi... +info about CPG 👉 palaeogenetics.com RT pls

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AaRC
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This #SpecimenSunday, meet Yak X 🐂, a newly discovered species! Little bones taking us a long way! What big discoveries have you made from tiny bones? Tag us with #SpecimenSunday @cpgsthlm.bsky.social

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There is an open postdoc position in @indianadiez.bsky.social's group working on woolly mammoth genomics 🧑‍🔬🧪♥️🦣 Position details www.su.se/english/divi... Join us! #adna #ancientdna #genomics

su.sePostdoc on palaeogenomics of woolly mammoths - Stockholms universitet
David Díez del Molino 🇪🇸🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈@indianadiez.bsky.social

🚨 #postdoc alert ❤️‍🔥 I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group at @cpgsthlm.bsky.social and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social working on #woollymammoth genomics 🦣🦴🧬✨ Deadline: 30th Nov. +Info about the position 👉 www.su.se/english/divi... +info about CPG 👉 palaeogenetics.com RT pls

Centre for Palaeogenetics
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New research (and new species) just out from Jonas Oppenheimer, Alexandre Gilardet and other researchers at #CpgSthlm!

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New Ice Age species just dropped! 🦴🧬 Check out our study in @currentbiology.bsky.social where we identified an extinct megafaunal species previously unknown to genomics from small non-diagnostic bone fragments at Denisova Cave and southern Siberia. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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New paper alert 🚨 A study led by researchers at #CPGstlhm used 150 years of bumblebee museum specimens to reveal population stability and rising genomic diversity in Sweden's common carder bee! 🐝🧬🏛️ Check @indianadiez.bsky.social little thread ⬇️ OA article 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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New research in @molecularecolup.bsky.social! Museum collections help us understand the genomic consequences of the insect biodiversity crisis 🐝🧬🏛️ We analyzed specimens spanning 150 years to track genomic diversity in the common carder bee in Sweden. OA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Love Dalén
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1/ Just back from fieldwork in the Klondike (Yukon #Canada) We had a great time, with a fantastic team from CPG (@cpgsthlm.bsky.social) + local Yukon collaborators, digging out ancient permafrost in search for Ice Age remains dating back roughly 900,000 - 600,000 years 🦣🐭🦴🧬 And we found A LOT…

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Our #CPGSthlm delegation had great presentations and posters at #SMBE2026! 👏👏👏 ♥️🧬🦣🫎🦠🦋🐝🐀💀🦬🧪

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After #ICP2026, #CPGsthlm has officially landed in Copenhagen for #SMBE2026! 🇩🇰🧬 We are bringing a delegation from Stockholm to share our latest research. Here is a breakdown of every CPG presentation happening this week 🧵👇 Don't miss out!

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After #ICP2026, #CPGsthlm has officially landed in Copenhagen for #SMBE2026! 🇩🇰🧬 We are bringing a delegation from Stockholm to share our latest research. Here is a breakdown of every CPG presentation happening this week 🧵👇 Don't miss out!

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After #ICP2026, #CPGsthlm has officially landed in Copenhagen for #SMBE2026! 🇩🇰🧬 We are bringing a delegation from Stockholm to share our latest research. Here is a breakdown of every CPG presentation happening this week 🧵👇 Don't miss out!

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After #ICP2026, #CPGsthlm has officially landed in Copenhagen for #SMBE2026! 🇩🇰🧬 We are bringing a delegation from Stockholm to share our latest research. Here is a breakdown of every CPG presentation happening this week 🧵👇 Don't miss out!

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After #ICP2026, #CPGsthlm has officially landed in Copenhagen for #SMBE2026! 🇩🇰🧬 We are bringing a delegation from Stockholm to share our latest research. Here is a breakdown of every CPG presentation happening this week 🧵👇 Don't miss out!

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ICP2026 Stockholm
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♥️ THANK YOU ♥️ We are overwhelmed by the positive comments and are incredibly happy that everyone enjoyed their time in Stockholm! #ICP2026 was only possible with the hard work of the organizing committee and a marvellous team of ECR volunteers 🟠 at @cpgsthlm.bsky.social

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ICP2026 Stockholm
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Wake up you sleepy heads, rub your eyes and get out of bed! 😴 Our final plenary talk is by the great Beth Shapiro, on the use of ancient DNA to reconstruct the bison's evolutionary history. #ICP2026 🦬🧬🦴🧪

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ICP2026 Stockholm
@palaeogenomics.bsky.social

Welcome to #ICP2026 🎉 Registration is open today at Aula Magna until 18:00. The Welcome Reception🥂 at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet) 🦴🏛️ will start at 18:00. Don't miss it!! Full conference info 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org #ancientDNA 🧪🦣🧬🦴🦠

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Ancient DNA is revealing that many extinct species had much deeper and more complex histories than we once imagined. The cave lion was the product of nearly 2 million years of independent evolution. Photo: Skull of cave lion (photo taken by Love Dalén) 🧵 8/9

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Huge congratulations to lead author David Stanton, as well as all co-authors and collaborators who helped make this study possible! Photo: The female cave lion cub named Sparta, whose genome was sequenced in this study (photo taken by Love Dalén) 🧵 9/9

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We also identified cave-lion-specific genetic changes in genes linked to neurological function, vision and the circulatory system. Potential clues to how these animals adapted to Ice Age environments. Image: Functions linked to genetic changes in cave lions 🧵 6/9

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One surprise: cave lions do not appear to have been in a long-term demographic decline before extinction. Their effective population size may actually have exceeded that of modern African lions. Image: Population size changes in lions over time 🧵 7/9

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But despite this deep divergence, cave lions and the ancestors of modern lions occasionally interbred. Their genomes preserve the signatures of those ancient encounters. Image: The extinct modern lion population from southwest Asia showed the best evidence for modern <-> cave interbreeding. 🧵 4/9

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Even more remarkably, the amount of modern lion ancestry in cave lions increased during glacial periods and decreased during warmer intervals. Climate appears to have repeatedly brought the two species together. Image: Amount of interbreeding was correlated with global ice volume 🧵 5/9

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The cave lion was one of the most successful predators of the Ice Age. It ranged from Britain to Alaska and is immortalized in spectacular prehistoric cave art. Picture: European cave lions in Chauvet Cave, museum replica (WikiCommons) 🧵 2/9

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Our results show that cave lions were not just a northern population of modern lions. They represented a distinct evolutionary lineage that persisted in Eurasia for nearly 2 million years. Image: A) cave lion samples, B) modern and cave lions were distinct lineages, C) modern lion samples 🧵 3/9

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Stockholm University
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For more than a century, vast mammoth bone deposits in Central Europe have puzzled scientists. Now EU-funded researchers are revealing what they tell us about how Ice Age humans hunted and survived. Research project including @cpgsthlm.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @horizoneu.bsky.social bit.ly/4uko4PN

projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.euMammoth bones reveal secrets of Ice Age huntersShortly before the peak of the last Ice Age, herds of woolly mammoths roamed across Central Europe, following seasonal routes through a vast, frigid landscape of grassland and tundra. Across the regio...

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David Díez del Molino 🇪🇸🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈
@indianadiez.bsky.social

What do mammoth bone accumulation sites scattered across Europe tell about ancient humans? 🦴🦣🧬 Check this nice piece about our MAMBA project in the Horizon Magazine. Article ➡️ bit.ly/4uko4PN

bit.lyMammoth bones reveal secrets of Ice Age huntersShortly before the peak of the last Ice Age, herds of woolly mammoths roamed across Central Europe, following seasonal routes through a vast, frigid landscape of grassland and tundra. Across the regio...
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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/...

pnas.orgAncient environmental genome reveals a migratory brown bear individual in Early Holocene Scandinavia | PNASAfter the last ice age, species migrated into a newly deglaciated Scandinavia. Brown bear recolonization is thought to have occurred from two direc...
Ernst Johnson@officialernst.bsky.social

Very excited to share our study of an ancient environmental genome extracted from lake sediment! It originates from a brown bear that lived around 9,600 years ago close to the last ice-sheet remains in northern Sweden, and has an unexpected mitochondrial haplogroup. 1/7 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

pnas.orgAncient environmental genome reveals a migratory brown bear individual in Early Holocene Scandinavia | PNASAfter the last ice age, species migrated into a newly deglaciated Scandinavia. Brown bear recolonization is thought to have occurred from two direc...

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HAAM-community
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📢 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

docs.google.comSubmission form for a flash talk at the Second HAAMeeting (ICP 2026 Pre-Conference meeting)Did you NOT get a talk at ICP2026 scheduled from 23rd to 26th of June in Stockholm (Sweden) and you're focusing on anything related to human (modern or ancient) DNA, mobility, demographic history, or ...
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Come join us in Stockholm as a PhD student for the next 4 years!

Love Dalén@lovedalen.bsky.social

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! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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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.

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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...

eurekalert.orgMedieval DNA reveals trans-Saharan connections, rapid genetic mixing, and leprosy in Islamic IbizaMedieval Ibiza was far from a quiet Mediterranean backwater. New DNA evidence shows that the island was part of a dynamic world linking Europe, North Africa and even the Sahel zone, south of Sahara. A...
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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.