Busy weeks for the team: Aigerim presented her work on Eurasians at the AABA in Los Angeles, Xin presented his teaching at the ProbGen conference here in Vienna. The ProbGen was a nice opportunity to meet people again. Also, Yun Song visited our lab after […]
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Monkeypox paper out!
Our paper on Monkeypox in museum specimens is out! Orangutan skulls from the natural history museum König in Bonn turned out to belong to individuals that died during a Zoo outbreak in Rotterdam in 1965. After decades, we recovered Monkeypox genomes at high coverage. Here […]
Jenny Tung visited
As part of the HEAS lectures, we had Jenny Tung, director of the primatology department at MPI-EVA Leipzig visiting us! Very happy to meet such great scientists!
Visit Chiara Barbieri
Chiara Barbieri vom University of Cagliari visited as part of the HEAS Ancient Genomics series, and we were happy to have the opportunity for some nice discussions!
Visit by Ainash Childebayeva
We were very happy to have Ainash Childebayeva from the MPI-EVA & Uni Kansas visiting, with a great presentation for the HEAS genomics lectures, being part of the thesis committee of Aigerim, and nice discussions about Central Eurasia and beyond.
ESPRIT grant to Sojung
Congratulations to Sojung for the FWF ESPRIT grant to work on great ape museomics! Celebrated at a Korean Restaurant today.
Deep Learning in PopGen review
We just published a review article in Nature Reviews Genetics: Everything you ever wanted to know about deep learning, its application to population genetic inference, and the potential of this field! Led by Xin Huang, in collaboration with Oscar Lao.
Gorilla ghost admixture out
Finally, the Gorilla ghost admixture study is out in Nature Ecology & Evolution!
SMBE 2023
Great conference in Ferrara, learning a lot, meeting many people, and presenting the work of our group with several posters (in presence & online).
Ghost admixture @SMBE presented by Harvi
Harvinder Pawar presented the gorilla ghost admixture project at the SMBE2023 conference in Ferrara, Italy! Congrats again to winning the Graduate Student Excellence Award!