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Maria Lopopolo

@marialopopolo.bsky.social

Ballerina 💃 postdoctoral researcher in Paleo(meta)genomics and Evolutionary Dynamics of Infectious Diseases at Institut Pasteur, Paris- ancient bugs | infectious diseases and microbiome☠️🔍 🏠🇮🇹-->🇩🇰 🇬🇧🇨🇵

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research@pasteur.fr · 2mo ago

Congrats @baptistedarracq.bsky.social & @marialopopolo.bsky.social two Pasteurians awarded the Academy of Sciences' "Major Advances in Biology" Prize for groundbreaking Science publications on bacterial defense & ancient leprosy. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40339013/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40440428/

Sedentary chromosomal integrons as biobanks of bacterial antiphage defense systems - PubMed

Integrons are genetic systems that drive bacterial adaptation by acquiring, expressing, and shuffling gene cassettes. While mobile integrons are well known for spreading antibiotic resistance genes, t...

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Maria Lopopolo@marialopopolo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Congratulations to my former lab at @pasteuredu.bsky.social @nrascovan.bsky.social lead authors @ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social and #pierreLuisi and last but not least thanks @bitesizedna.bsky.social for hosting me at Copenhagen Uni for hours of drilling, extractions, and preps! 👩‍🔬

Nico Rascovan@nrascovan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How did farming reach the Southern Andes? Through migration or cultural transmission? Our new paper in @nature.com combines ancient DNA, isotopes, archaeology & paleoclimate to reconstruct 2,000+ years of history in Uspallata, Mendoza. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A Thread🧵 (1/25+)

Maria Lopopolo@marialopopolo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🧬 Two pathogens, one disease. Leprosy cannot be understood as a single-pathogen disease. Understanding this duality is critical for modern case detection, surveillance, and long-term control strategies. A commentary with @nrascovan.bsky.social and @avanzich.bsky.social #Leprosy #OneHealth #aDNA

Nico Rascovan@nrascovan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Sharing the commentary we wrote with @marialopopolo.bsky.social and @avanzich.bsky.social 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... in which we discuss the biomedical implications on Leprosy of our recent article on M. lepromatosis in the Americas: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @pasteur.fr

SPAAM@spaam-community.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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SPAAM@spaam-community.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🗳️🗳️Dear SPAAM community, have you voted for the SPAAM8 2026 meeting location yet? The poll is open until Nov 22! Check Element General Room to choose your preferred option (Leipzig, Copenhagen, Stockholm, or online). Your input matters—help shape our next annual meeting!

Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · 11mo ago

An August addendum to this 🧵 on new studies documenting the presence of Mycobacterium lepromatosis in the pre-Contact Americas. @marialopopolo.bsky.social, lead author of the study in @science.org that came out in May, has won the @isba11.bsky.social Best Paper prize! bsky.app/profile/nras... Kudos!

Nico Rascovan@nrascovan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

@isba11.bsky.social Super happy and proud for @marialopopolo.bsky.social and @avanzich.bsky.social who got the prize to the best paper at #ISBA11 in Turin. Thanks to the jury for this honor!

Maria Lopopolo@marialopopolo.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Please help us improve #SPAAMtisch by filling out the feedback form below! 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

SPAAM@spaam-community.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Dear SPAAM community, help us improve #SPAAMtisch our longest ongoing initiative! Whether you're a regular or just joined, we want your feedback to give voice to the community! Please fill out this form, it will take only 3 minutes. forms.gle/XwPko88y4D1U...

Maria Lopopolo@marialopopolo.bsky.social · last yr.

Don't miss our #SPAAMTisch seminar given by John Tay on "Bayesian Phylogenetic Methods for Microbial Pathogens" here is the link to follow the talk **TODAY** at **4pm CET** Join Zoom Meeting ut-ee.zoom.us/j/94984441034?… Meeting ID: 949 8444 1034 Passcode: 986313

Alexandra Delbot@alexandradelbot.bsky.social · last yr.

Nicolas Rascovan @nrascovan.bsky.social est biologiste, directeur de recherche à l'Institut Pasteur de l’équipe de Paléogénomique microbienne et dernier auteur de l'étude. 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...

science.org

Maria Lopopolo@marialopopolo.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you @spaam-community.bsky.social 🙏 a community full of amazing scientists but also dear friends who accompanied me during the journey of my PhD and from whom I've learnt a lot ✨️

SPAAM@spaam-community.bsky.social · last yr.

#MetagenomicsMonday While it's long been assumed that leprosy came to the Americas with Europeans, new evidence shows that Mycobacterium lepromatosis, was already infecting people here long before that, rewriting the history of leprosy's origins in the New World. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research@pasteur.fr · last yr.

🌎🧬 Leprosy was already endemic in the Americas for 1,000+ years BEFORE Europeans arrived. Scientists analyzed DNA from ~800 samples & found Mycobacterium lepromatosis infecting Indigenous populations centuries before colonization. #Leprosy @marialopopolo.bsky.social @nrascovan.bsky.social

Revelations on the History of Leprosy in the Americas

Leprosy existed in America long before the arrival of Europeans: a new study reveals the history of a neglected pathogen.

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Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · last yr.

And this blogpost for #WorldLeprosyDay2025 adds in the story for the "medieval" Pacific world: constantinusafricanus.com/2025/01/26/l.... With this latest work by @marialopopolo.bsky.social @nrascovan.bsky.social et al., we now have the outlines of a complete global picture. #histmed #MedievalSky

Leprosy in the Global Middle Ages: A Slow Pandemic

In August 2024, Jordan became the first country to officially eliminate leprosy.1 Countries participating in the World Health Organization (WHO)2 have committed not simply to bringing percentages o…

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Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · last yr.

Big news in #GlobalHealthHistory today. A species of bacterium that causes leprosy, discovered in 2008 in modern patients, has been proven to have been present in the Americas well before European arrival. More details in 🧵 below: www.science.org/content/arti... #GlobalMiddleAges #histmed #aDNA 🧪

Leprosy was an American scourge long before Europeans arrived

Scientists find DNA from an enigmatic bacterium in 1000-year-old skeletons

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Federico Kukso@fedkukso.bsky.social · last yr.

Un diente reescribe la historia americana Una gran investigación de @nrascovan.bsky.social @marialopopolo.bsky.social @avanzich.bsky.social publicada hoy en @science.org Lo cuento en @agenciasinc.es www.agenciasinc.es/Reportajes/U...

Un azote antiguo: la lepra circulaba en América antes de la llegada de los europeos

En colaboración con comunidades indígenas, un equipo internacional de 40 científicos halló ADN de una de las dos bacterias responsables de esta enfermedad estigmatizante en los restos de individuos que vivieron en lo que hoy es Argentina y Canadá hace más de mil años.

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Maria Lopopolo@marialopopolo.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

science.org