Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
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Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
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.
www.uni-leipzig.de
Faculties & Facilities
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.
The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data:
Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Research engineer, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
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.
Felix M Key
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.
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...
What a life! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/s...
Matthew J Shepherd
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Torsten Günther
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.
