Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Hämmerle 🎓

HEAS Congratulates Dr Michelle Hämmerle - HEAS

By Pere Gelabert   On the 14th of September, Michelle Hämmerle successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Ancient Pathogens in Context – Paleogenomic Insights into Human Ancestry, Disease Burden, an...

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And a new admixlab paper! Genomic landscapes of natural selection in great apes Some new insights into what makes each lineage special, using our curated dataset. doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Published: Targeted chromosomal sequencing of wild bonobos identifies a genetically distinct subpopulation east of the Lomami river doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Old lady in first author paper shocker! 🧪🧬🖥️ (ok but seriously I worked very hard on this and I am proud of it. Taught myself some neat new tricks while doing it, too!) www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Reporting and representation of population descriptors in public RNA-seq databases

By combining repository metadata, genotype-inferred ancestry, and manual curation of publications, Gallego Romero et al. demonstrate that public RNA-seq datasets are dominated by samples from high-inc...

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New Publication! New Article by #HEASVienna members @rymbekova07.bsky.social, @peregx9.bsky.social, #MichelleHämmerle, #SojungHan, #OliviaCheronet, #RonPinhasi et al. #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

Insightful work on archaic hominin introgression using ancestral recombination graphs, by @yulinzhang.bsky.social @aabiddanda.github.io @sarahaj34.bsky.social @codushlaine.bsky.social & Priya Moorjani. Key finding: Ghost ancestry persists in so called Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry deserts 🧪🧬💀

Recovering signatures of archaic hominin introgression using ancestral recombination graphs

Admixture between modern humans and extinct hominins has shaped the genomes of present-day individuals, but reconstructing this history has been constrained by the scarcity of archaic samples and unad...

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Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Well that sucks. www.engadget.com/2225849/goog... Least bummer interpretation: AlphaFold served its purpose, DeepMind already spun off a drug lab, so it was time to reassign the time.

#NewPublication #NewArticle by #HEASVienna members @kuhlwilm.bsky.social, #DorisNagel et al. on 'Paleogenomes reveal the evolutionary relationship between modern and cave lions' #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

What a fantastic conference dinner we had yesterday at the Golden Hall 🪙 of Stockholms City Hall! 🏫 Even the full-delegate (>380) conference group picture we thought we couldn't pull out, happened organically 📸🎉

Our late Neandertal paper is officially out! 💀❤️🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... It was years in the making, a tremendous feat spearheaded by our PhD student Alba Bossoms Mesa and co-led by @janetk.bsky.social and @benmpeter.bsky.social

We are advertising a 3-year Evolution Education Trust funded #PhD studentship at @ugiatucl.bsky.social UCL to investigate the genomic history of infectious diseases preserved within historical pathology collections. Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... #findaphd #EET

Unlocking the Genomic History of Pathogens Through Pathology Archives at University College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Unlocking the Genomic History of Pathogens Through Pathology Archives at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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#SMBE2026 S25: Deep time human genomics 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 3:50pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

🧬 New paper in Cell! Analysis of 12 cave lion genomes shows that cave lions and modern lions may have diverged more than three times earlier than previously thought – as early as 1.7 million years ago! AND…they interbred when temperatures dropped! Paper: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/9

📄 The detailed scientific programme for SMBE 2026 is now available on the conference website. Please follow the link to access it. 🔗 cappartner-smbe2026.eventsair.site #SMBE2026

Ancestral Genomes xkcd.com/3252/

#HEASVienna members took to the streets of Vienna today along with 21,000 colleagues and students from across the Universities in Austria to protest the proposed budget cuts to University funding. #unisretten

Demonstrating against University budget cut plans in Austria today.

Our paper on recurrent independent duplications in the primate amylase locus is now out in Cell Reports! Huge thanks to @petarpajic, @spit-lab.bsky.social and @gokcumenlab.bsky.social for their support. More about the work in the thread below from when we first shared the preprint last August.

Convergent evolution through independent rearrangements in the primate amylase locus

Structurally complex loci can repeatedly generate similar traits; Karageorgiou et al. established primate amylase locus as a structural variation hotspot, potentially seeded by transposable elements. ...

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Call for a demonstration, Wednesday, 27 May 2026, 13:00, starting on the Universitätsring in front of the Main Building of the University of Vienna! www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta... Please join us and support #Science in Austria! @univie.ac.at @vdsee-univie.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social

Budget – Universities call for demonstrations against budget cuts

Rector Sebastian Schütze: "Enormous reputational damage"

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We are looking forward to the #HEASSeminar with #DiyendoMassilani taking place next Monday at the later than normal time of 16:00 CEST. This is an online only event. More information and registration on our website. 👇🔗 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

HEAS Seminar - Ancient Genomics - HEAS

As part of the HEAS Seminar in Ancient Genomics, Diyendo Massilani from Yale University will give a talk on An Altai Neanderthal genome reveals population structure in small, isolated groups on the 26...

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We are searching for an aDNA lab manager (maternity leave substitute) at UniVie. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

aDNA lab manager position (maternity cover for ~16 months) at UniVie. Come work with us, several cool projects, new labs and great potential for further future work. Happy to answer questions! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Experience in Paleogenomics and looking for a senior position with lab responsibilities? This is for you !!! Apply here: 👍🧪🔖 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

We are looking for a DNA lab manager! The position is for a Senior Scientist (maternity replacement) in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology here in Vienna. Come and work with us in the wonderful fields of ancient DNA and archaeology!! 🧬💀 Link below: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

We are crafting a very special ancient DNA conference this summer in Stockholm. Don't miss out! If you are planning to come to #ICP2026sthlm and you haven't registered yet there are only a few days left to do it. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

ICP2026 Stockholm@palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Only ONE WEEK left to register for #ICP2026sthlm 👀 Deadline: 8th May Join us for an amazing week full of talks and networking on all things ancient DNA! Check the FULL conference program 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/wp-content/u... Register here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/registration/

your rejected erc grant resubmitted after one year

Can we reconstruct ancient pathogen genomes from animal remains? Can paleopathology help prioritize promising specimens? Our new paper demonstrates this by screening more than 300 specimens from across Eurasia over the past 6,000 years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Probing the zooarchaeological record across time and space for ancient pathogen DNA - Nature Communications

Authors investigate ancient DNA from animal remains and identify multiple signatures of ancient zoonotic pathogens. They find ancient pathogen genomics from archaeological animal remains may inform zo...

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The paper's framing: Human violent conflict has been explained by different theories in different places and times, including cultural identities. Chimps have violence but don't have cultural identity, so maybe cultural identity isn't so important to human conflict! Illogical Darwinist slop.

Science Magazine@science.org · 5mo ago

In a decades-long study, researchers have documented what appears to be the first observed “civil war” in wild chimpanzees. The findings demonstrate that shifting social ties alone can fracture a once unified group and ignite sustained, deadly conflict among former allies. https://scim.ag/47QE8Qw