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📍Imperial, Copenhagen V
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October 1, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Interested in working on pathogen DNA with the king of ancient disease, Martin Sikora? Check out this new postdoc opening at GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen!
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Postdoctoral positions in Ancient Pathogen Genomics at Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
We are seeking two highly motivated and independent postdoctoral researchers with a strong computational and analytical background to join our research in ancie
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January 16, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Geogenetics and the Globe Institute know how to decorate...
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Study Reveals Genetic and Linguistic Roots of Indo-European Populations

A comprehensive study involving 91 researchers, including Eske Willerslev from the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre at the University of Copenhagen, has provided critical insights into the genetic and linguistic origins…
Study Reveals Genetic and Linguistic Roots of Indo-European Populations
A comprehensive study involving 91 researchers, including Eske Willerslev from the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre at the University of Copenhagen, has provided critical insights into the genetic and linguistic origins of Indo-European populations. The findings, identify two significant migrations during the Bronze Age that contributed to the spread of steppe ancestry across the Mediterranean. The genetic research links Spanish, French and Italian populations to Bell Beaker ancestry, while Greek and Armenian populations have been connected directly to Yamnaya ancestry from the Pontic Steppe region. Analyses of Steppe Ancestry Distribution According to the…
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April 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Another cool one from GeoGenetics! Hooray for Tom and Inger! Mt genome diversity and pop structure of the GIANT SQUID http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/long/280/1759/20130273
January 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
another one from #GeoGenetics mapDamage2 approximate Bayesian estimates of ancient DNA damage patterns. http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/long/btt193v1
January 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
One more from #GeoGenetics congrats Mikkel! A comparative study of ancient environmental DNA to pollen and macrofossi http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379113002187
ScienceDirect
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January 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
#GeoGenetics evidence vs Phoenicians as the first to introduce donkeys into the Iberian Peninsula http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313002550
ScienceDirect
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January 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
#GeoGenetics Go Mike! "Reconstructing genome evolution in historic samples of the Irish potato famine pathogen" http://go.nature.com/W7ZYgv
Reconstructing genome evolution in historic samples of th...
Phytophthora infestanscaused the potato famine in the nin...
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January 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
from #GeoGenetics "An invertebrate stomach's view on vertebrate ecology" using iDNA to assess mammal biodiverstity http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201300060/abstract
January 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Postdoc position at the Centre for Ice and Climate and Centre for Geogenetics: Ancient DNA from ice cores
http://geogenetics.ku.dk/latest-news/vacancy-dna-ice-cores/
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Another cool one from GeoGenetics "Bacterial natural transformation by highly fragmented and damaged DNA" Go Søren http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/11/12/1315278110.abstract
January 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Today was my last day as a PostDoc at the Centre for Geogenetics under awesome Tom Gilbert's supervision.
January 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
another from #geogenetics Optimization of DNA Recovery and Amplification from Non-Carbonized Archaeobotanical Remains http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086827
Optimization of DNA Recovery and Amplification from Non-C...
Ancient DNA (aDNA) recovered from archaeobotanical remain...
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January 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Very happy to see that Tom Gilbert from #geogenetics is going to #agbt14 !! Wish I could go!
January 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Clovis paper is out! #GeoGenetics The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana http://go.nature.com/svjLUJ
The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis buri...
The first individual genome from the Clovis culture is pr...
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January 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Shotgun Microbial Profiling of Fossil Remains" paper by Clio and Ludo from #GeoGenetics http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.12690/abstract
January 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Extinct New Zealand megafauna were not in decline before human colonization From #GeoGenetics http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/03/14/1314972111.short
January 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
#GeoGenetics "Rodents of the Caribbean: origin&diversification of hutias unravelled by next-gen museomics" http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/long/10/7/20140266
January 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Very cool to see this! Go GeoGenetics team! "Improving access to endogenous DNA in ancient bones and teeth" http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/02/06/014985
Improving access to endogenous DNA in ancient bone and teeth
Poor DNA preservation is the most limiting factor in anci...
biorxiv.org
January 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
compelling evidence for a distinct genetic and linguistic split between ancient Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European populations. Italic & Celtic groups linked to Bell Beaker populations, - Greek & Armenian groups linked to Yamnaya populations

phys.org/news/2024-12...
Ancient genomes provide final word in Indo-European linguistic origins
A team of 91 researchers—including famed geneticist Eske Willerslev at the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen—has discovered a Bronze Age genetic divergence connected to ...
phys.org
January 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Ancient genomes provide final word in Indo-European linguistic origins — Bronze Age genomes show two steppe migrations into the Mediterranean, aligning with Indo-European language patterns: Bell Beakers to the west, Yamnaya to the east
phys.org/news/2024-12...
Ancient genomes provide final word in Indo-European linguistic origins
A team of 91 researchers—including famed geneticist Eske Willerslev at the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen—has discovered a Bronze Age genetic divergence connected to ...
phys.org
January 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM