Ancient DNA 🧬 | paleontology 🦴 | sediments 🏔️ | Based at @cpgsthlm.bsky.social | he/him/Pete
Web: palaeogenetics.com/peter-heintzman/
Pete Heintzman
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Come to Stockholm! #SPAAM8
Nice recent article in Nature about sediment DNA and its impacts on human evolution and archaeology, featuring two of our great colleagues here in Vienna, Pere Gelabert and Ben Vernot
@heasvienna.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Meet our keynote speakers 💁♂️
HE YU (@sls-pku.bsky.social)
He Yu is a specialist in using ancient DNA to reconstruct the evolutionary trajectories of modern and extinct, wild and human-commensal species.
Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
Meet our keynote speakers 💁♀️
VICTORIA MULLIN (@victoriaemullin.bsky.social)
Victoria is a leader in using ancient DNA to study the origins of domestication, tracing the genomic changes driven by the interactions between humans and animals.
Conference info & registration👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
New paper alert 🚨
A study led by #CPGSthlm researchers found DNA from a bear in 9.6k year old lake sediments. This potentially rewrites the history of brown bears in Scandinavia! 🧬🐻🐾🏔️🧊
Check @officialernst.bsky.social thread 👉
bsky.app/profile/offi...
OA article 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
This was a fun study to be a part of, especially as the findings/story developed
Great collaboration between @cpgsthlm.bsky.social and the Geological Sciences department at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social
Led by @officialernst.bsky.social and Isa Feinauer
Check out our study!
We present DNAharvester 🎉🦴🚜🧬
A pipeline to process highly degraded ancient DNA data that integrates metagenomic filtering, competitive mapping, multiple alignment strategies, reference bias evaluation and much more.
GitHub: github.com/NBISweden/DN...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our new pipeline for analysing highly degraded genomic DNA data is now available at biorXiv!
Study led by Bilal Sharif
Meet our keynote speakers 💁♂️
CRISTINA VALDIOSERA (@universidadburgos.bsky.social)
Cristina is a leading expert in ancient human DNA, focusing on the genomic history of past populations and the impact of cultural shifts on human evolution.
Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history.
📢 Registration now open for SPAAM8!
Join us for the ICP2026 satellite hybrid meeting on 22 June 2026 in Stockholm 🇸🇪
🧬 Ancient metagenomics community gathering in person or online!
🔗 Register here before June 10th: forms.gle/Z1AK5MHaFEfb...
We look forward to seeing you! 🔥
Brown bear DNA recovered from 9,600 year-old lake sediment captures information about a single male bear living in what is now northern Sweden. Surprisingly, the bear had genetic signatures associated with southern Swedish bears . In PNAS: https://ow.ly/FcnG50YMPP8
Brown bear DNA recovered from 9,600 year-old lake sediment captures information about a single male bear living in what is now northern Sweden. Surprisingly, the bear had genetic signatures associated with southern Swedish bears . In PNAS: https://ow.ly/FcnG50YMPP8
DNAharvester: A Nextflow Pipeline for Analysing Highly Degraded DNA from Ancient and Historical Specimens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.20.719564v1
