Research Group Leader @mpiib_berlin.
#Genetics of clinical and ancient #microbes to understand the #evolution of #infectious #diseases and the #microbiome
mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2003543/key-lab
Felix M Key
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What a life! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/s...
This highly interdisciplinary effort was led by my amazing postdoc, AK Runge, and the zooarchaeologist and paleopathologist Kamilla Pawlowska (U Poznan), with contributions from many others who provided specimens and analyses.
For a detailed thread, please see here bsky.app/profile/keyf.... Alongside the sequencing data, we have now included extensive metadata for each sample in the supplementary materials to enable reanalysis by others. If any sample is of interest to you, please reach out.
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...
Enjoyed reading this balanced piece on whether we are able to link the Neolithic 'decline' explicitly to pathogens (plague). Short answer: Probably not. It's complicated.
Thx for the invitation and organization of this exciting event about current frontiers in microbiome research. It makes me look forward to the Xmas season already.
Very much looking forward to visiting and meeting those working @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de next week, and the chance to speak about my postdoc work on within-patient AMR evolution, thanks to @keyfm.bsky.social and @mfenk.bsky.social for the kind invitation.
