Postdoc position (18 months) for an FWF-funded project (1000 Ideas Programme) on viruses in historical great ape samples.Apply here!
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New preprint: Gorilla ghost admixture
Here is the new preprint on the contribution of an extinct lineage into eastern gorillas (mountain and eastern lowland gorillas)!The work of Harvi, with many collaborators!
Katerina Guschanski Visit
We had a great time with Katerina from University of Edinburgh (Scotland), who was talking about museums, microbiome and many interesting things! Her talk will be online soon on the HEAS youtube channel!
Benjamin Peter visit
Ben Peter from the MPI Leipzig was visiting our group and the department, talking about Neandertals, admixture and more. Was great to have you here!
Postdoc position OPEN in virus genomics!
Details here: https://admixture.univie.ac.at/?page_id=42
First paper out in MBE!
We are very happy that our first paper was published today (as accepted manuscript) in Molecular Biology & Evolution!Congrats to Xin and Patricia!
Reconstructing the Human Past conference
Just finished the #EESHuman conference at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany – the state of the art in ancient genomics with many great speaker. Martin presented a poster with flashtalk on introgression detection methods, Harvi presented a poster on gorilla demography and admixture.
Welcome to new MSc student Michelle
A new Master’s project is starting, in collaboration with the aDNA lab: Michelle will be working on virome questions.
WWTF 20 years celebration
Great celebration of 20 years WWTF – thank you for funding our research!
Aida Andres visit & iNEAL training school
We were very happy to welcome Aida Andres at our department! She gave a HEAS lecture on human cold adaptation. Aida and our group (Xin & Martin) also contributed to the training school on Neanderthal genomics organized by iNEAL (Ron Pinhasi & Daniel Fernandes).