Biancamaria Bonucci
@bbonucci.bsky.social
PhD Student 🇪🇪 at the University of Tartu (she/her)
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
October 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Our paper on the second plague pandemic is now finally published:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We present 11 new Y. pestis genomes from around Europe and introduce a new approach to refine the dating of ancient genomes that helped us to contextualize 75 plague genomes of the Second Pandemic.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We present 11 new Y. pestis genomes from around Europe and introduce a new approach to refine the dating of ancient genomes that helped us to contextualize 75 plague genomes of the Second Pandemic.
September 11, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Our paper on the second plague pandemic is now finally published:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We present 11 new Y. pestis genomes from around Europe and introduce a new approach to refine the dating of ancient genomes that helped us to contextualize 75 plague genomes of the Second Pandemic.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We present 11 new Y. pestis genomes from around Europe and introduce a new approach to refine the dating of ancient genomes that helped us to contextualize 75 plague genomes of the Second Pandemic.
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Representing #UTInstituteofGenomics on Day 3 of #EESHuman, @embo.org @events.embl.org. Presented my work on pop-specific haplotype fingerprint, while #JRodrigo_flores abt biases in #aDNA imputation for selection inference.
Great science & new perspectives on human past! 🧬
#HumanEvolution #genomics
Great science & new perspectives on human past! 🧬
#HumanEvolution #genomics
September 17, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Representing #UTInstituteofGenomics on Day 3 of #EESHuman, @embo.org @events.embl.org. Presented my work on pop-specific haplotype fingerprint, while #JRodrigo_flores abt biases in #aDNA imputation for selection inference.
Great science & new perspectives on human past! 🧬
#HumanEvolution #genomics
Great science & new perspectives on human past! 🧬
#HumanEvolution #genomics
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A #methods paper for #MetagenomicsMonday! 🦠🧬💻
This new primer and #protocol provides practical guidance for assembling and validating #ancient #microbial #genomes. It introduces dedicated #aDNA support in #nf-core/mag.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#SPAAM #Metagenomics #Bioinformatics
This new primer and #protocol provides practical guidance for assembling and validating #ancient #microbial #genomes. It introduces dedicated #aDNA support in #nf-core/mag.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#SPAAM #Metagenomics #Bioinformatics
De novo assembly and authentication of ancient DNA metagenomes with nf-core/mag
Author summary Advancements in genomic sequencing analyses are increasingly allowing researchers to reconstruct the genomes of microbial ‘dark matter’—those microbial species that are difficult to…
journals.plos.org
September 21, 2026 at 11:08 AM
A #methods paper for #MetagenomicsMonday! 🦠🧬💻
This new primer and #protocol provides practical guidance for assembling and validating #ancient #microbial #genomes. It introduces dedicated #aDNA support in #nf-core/mag.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#SPAAM #Metagenomics #Bioinformatics
This new primer and #protocol provides practical guidance for assembling and validating #ancient #microbial #genomes. It introduces dedicated #aDNA support in #nf-core/mag.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#SPAAM #Metagenomics #Bioinformatics
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 🧬🦠🎙️
#aDNA #yersiniapestis
#aDNA #yersiniapestis
March 19, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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 🧬🦠🎙️
#aDNA #yersiniapestis
#aDNA #yersiniapestis
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...
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...
February 26, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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...
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...
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
#genomicstartu #archaeogenomics #teamspirit
January 15, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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
#genomicstartu #archaeogenomics #teamspirit
So glad to have such brilliant friends ♥️
I had the huge opportunity to share the preliminary results of my research project during the "ancient biomolecules and museums" session at ISBA11. What a great honor! 🥰
#ancientDNA #popgen #museomics #humanevolution #ISBA11 @isba11.bsky.social
#ancientDNA #popgen #museomics #humanevolution #ISBA11 @isba11.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
So glad to have such brilliant friends ♥️
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🚨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/...
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/...
September 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🚨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/...
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/...
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What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.
August 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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 🥰🔥
Number 92 🥰🔥
Check out Biancamaria's @bbonucci.bsky.social poster presentation tomorrow at #ISBA11, Aug 29, 12:45–2:25 pm @ Musei Reali, Torino
Session title: Methodological advances in biomolecular archaeology
@isba11.bsky.social
Session title: Methodological advances in biomolecular archaeology
@isba11.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Come to my poster at #ISBA11 today!!
Number 92 🥰🔥
Number 92 🥰🔥
It was a blast ♥️
A huge thanks to all the amazing speakers and participants at #SPAAM7 yesterday 🧬🙌
The sessions were full of inspiring talks and great discussions!✨
The sessions were full of inspiring talks and great discussions!✨
August 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It was a blast ♥️
🚨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...
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...
Ancient microbial DNA and proteins preserve in concretions covering human remains
Microbiome; Omics; Proteomics; Archeology
www.cell.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🚨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...
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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Also we are looking for new volunteers who are willing to help organising and inviting experts to give seminars. If you are interested please DM me or @bbonucci.bsky.social
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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!
Catch her talk on August 26th — live in Turin or online!
August 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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!
Catch her talk on August 26th — live in Turin or online!
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Join us 🔥🔥
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Missed the deadline for #SPAAM7? No worries! Registration is now open until 4.8. 🎉
That’s your second chance to join the fun. Don’t sleep on it! 😉
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See you in Turin or via zoom! 🔥
Missed the deadline for #SPAAM7? No worries! Registration is now open until 4.8. 🎉
That’s your second chance to join the fun. Don’t sleep on it! 😉
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See you in Turin or via zoom! 🔥
Registration form - SPAAM7
SPAAM7 will take place as a hybrid satellite meeting of the ISBA11 in Turin
When? 26th August 2025
Where? Accademia Albertina 13 in Turin and online via Zoom. Zoom link will be sent to online partici...
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August 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
What are you waiting for?? ⏳⌛️
Join us 🔥🔥
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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.
July 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Go check out @oskolkov.bsky.social project and research if you are interested in working with a great scientist (and in a beautiful city 🇱🇻) ⬇️⬇️
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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.
July 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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!! 🔥
#aDNA #metagenomics #SPAAM7
Join us in Turin!! 🔥
#aDNA #metagenomics #SPAAM7
📢 Registration Now Open for SPAAM7!
Join as for the pre-ISBA hybrid event, to be held on August 26th, 2025,in Turin, Italy 🇮🇹
Check out our preliminary program 🧬🦠
🔗 Register by the 30th of July using this link!!
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We look forward to seeing you (In person or via zoom)! 🔥🔥
Join as for the pre-ISBA hybrid event, to be held on August 26th, 2025,in Turin, Italy 🇮🇹
Check out our preliminary program 🧬🦠
🔗 Register by the 30th of July using this link!!
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We look forward to seeing you (In person or via zoom)! 🔥🔥
July 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Excited about microbes, ancient DNA, methods and meeting other fellow researchers??
Join us in Turin!! 🔥
#aDNA #metagenomics #SPAAM7
Join us in Turin!! 🔥
#aDNA #metagenomics #SPAAM7
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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/...
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...
www.science.org
May 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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
The microARCH lab has already welcomed me in the best way!
Super excited for the months to come 🤩🔥
#staytuned
We are excited to be hosting Biancamaria Bonucci, a PhD student from the University of Tartu (Estonia 🇪🇪)! She's here to expand her bioinformatics skills and collaborate on a project studying the oral microbiomes of smokers, with the goal of better understanding ancient health and lifestyle patterns
June 16, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Grateful for this opportunity!! 🦠👩💻
The microARCH lab has already welcomed me in the best way!
Super excited for the months to come 🤩🔥
#staytuned
The microARCH lab has already welcomed me in the best way!
Super excited for the months to come 🤩🔥
#staytuned
Join us for SPAAM7!!
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Great news ! 🥳 The SPAAM7 abstract submission is extended to May 18th! Submit your abstract before its too late !
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May 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Join us for SPAAM7!!
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Glad to have this international environment and get to share traditions from all over the world 🥹♥️
Happy Holi from UT population geneticists! 🎨 🎊 💜 #Holi #UniversityofTartu
@rutvirajpara.bsky.social
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March 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Glad to have this international environment and get to share traditions from all over the world 🥹♥️
Join us in Turin!!!🦠🔥🫡
Abstract submission for #SPAAM7 is now officially OPEN! 🚀
We look forward to your submissions – don't miss the opportunity to share your work! 📝✨
📅 Open until: April 30th
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#SPAAM7 #SPAAM #aDNA #sedaDNA #AncientMetagenomics #abstractsubmission
We look forward to your submissions – don't miss the opportunity to share your work! 📝✨
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March 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Join us in Turin!!!🦠🔥🫡
Ready for SPAAM7?! 😏🦠🔥
📢 Save the Date!
We’re thrilled to announce SPAAM7 – a global gathering of experts in ancient DNA and metagenomes research! 🌍
📅 When: 26th August 2025
📍 Where: Turin, Italy 🇮🇹 (and Zoom)
Stay tuned for more updates and registration details!
#SPAAM7 #aDNA #aeDNA #sedaDNA #ancientmetagenomics
We’re thrilled to announce SPAAM7 – a global gathering of experts in ancient DNA and metagenomes research! 🌍
📅 When: 26th August 2025
📍 Where: Turin, Italy 🇮🇹 (and Zoom)
Stay tuned for more updates and registration details!
#SPAAM7 #aDNA #aeDNA #sedaDNA #ancientmetagenomics
January 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ready for SPAAM7?! 😏🦠🔥