Last paper of 2024 paper from the lab by Josef & Xin, in Infection, Genetics and Evolution: Revisiting adaptive introgression at the HLA genes in Lithuanian genomes with machine learning
Author: kuhlwilmm83@univie.ac.at
Museum screening paper published
We screened more than 200 great ape specimens from museums for DNA viruses, and found even high-coverage virus genomes there. Tremendous work led by Michelle, and together with many others! Here is the paper.
Bonobo paper out!
The paper on bonobo population structure is finally out in Current Biology! Congrats to Sojung, Aida, Cesare, and all collaborators! Here is a summary on our results in German. Here we are out for celebrating:
PhD defense of Harvi
In Barcelona today (26th Sep 2024) for the PhD defense of Harvi Pawar – a great presentation on gorilla genomics, and a well-deserved highest grade. Congratulations, Harvi!
Reconstructing the human past
Just going back from the very nice EMBO/EMBL conference on the human past in Heidelberg!Great talks by PhD students Ina and Michelle, many interesting talks & posters, and a fun party.Also from the department – Katerina & Susanna.
SMBE 2024 in Mexico!
Hola from a successful SMBE conference in tropical Puerto Vallarta, Mexico! An oral presentation on RNA viruses in great apes by Sojung, posters by Aigerim, Michelle and Martin, and lots of fun during the conference.
AABA/ProbGen/Yun Song visit
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 […]
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!