Serena Tucci

@serenat82.bsky.social

Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of the Human Evolutionary Genomics Lab at Yale University.

Ancient DNA from two 16th-century Medici brothers has solved a 500-year-old mystery: both carried malaria parasites, confirming malaria — not poisoning — caused their deaths. Researchers also identified a rare parasite strain that could reveal how malaria evolved in Europe.

Ancient-DNA analysis solves 500-year-old mystery of what killed 2 Medici brothers

An ancient-DNA analysis of the bones of two members of the Renaissance Medici family has confirmed they had malaria when they died.

livescience.com

Big news this week from The Rogers Lab. We will be moving to GW University in Washington DC, starting August 1st. We will be hiring postdocs and recruiting new students! Email me if interested or come find me at SMBE!

Very happy to see our study out today in iScience! Very grateful to work with our amazing collaborators! Ancient DNA analyses of remains of the Medici family (16th century) provide insights into the genetic variation of Plasmodium falciparum: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Ancient DNA analyses of remains of the Medici family (16th century) provide insights into the genetic variation of Plasmodium falciparum

Microbial genomics; Omics; Genomics; Archeology; History

cell.com