A great time in beautiful Cagliari meeting friends and collaborators. Michelle presented her project on inequality:
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Defense Michelle Hämmerle
We had a very successful PhD defense this week. Michelle presented her work on the Llullaillaco mummies, inequality, pathogens, and more. A great step, also for the admixlab, as the first student from Vienna.
Great Ape selection paper published
We finally published our study on selection landscapes in the great apes in Genome Biology, where we analysed the genomic diversity data curated earlier for bonobos, chimpanzees, eastern and western gorillas, and Bornean and Sumatran orangutans. We now pinpointed genetic regions recently favoured as well […]
Iron Age Saka paper published
We have published our study on Iron Age Saka individuals from Boz-Barmak, Kyrgystan, in Scientific Reports. Led by Aigerim and her first first-author publication! Congrats!
SMBE 2026
A very good time at SMBE in Copenhagen. Presented on Introgression, meeting many old friends and great new people, and many discussions about evolution.
ICP conference Stockholm
A great time at the first International Conference on Palaeogenomics, with a talk by Michelle about the mummies and a poster presentation by Barbara on great ape viruses.
Mini retreat
Today we had a mini retreat. 1 minute per project – we should be concise and clear about our work. Appreciations for working together, and thinking what we like about the great stuff we are doing. Also, lots of Sushi and desserts… Here an impression […]
Visit by Irene Gallego Romero
This week, Irene Gallego Romero was visiting the Department as part of the HEAS seminar series. We had a great time and fun discussions! Here is her talk on Youtube!
Paper out: Statistics for Adaptive Introgression
We published now in Molecular Biology & Evolution our paper presenting a neat tool to calculate statistics for adaptive introgression. This is work led by Xin!
Ape data paper published!
We published in Scientific Data our curated great ape genome diversity paper. We collected high coverage whole genomes, report some inconsistencies in previously published metadata, and present curated sets of genotypes as well as mapped sequences. A lot of effort, which will hopefully be useful […]