Harvinder Pawar presented the gorilla ghost admixture project at the SMBE2023 conference in Ferrara, Italy! Congrats again to winning the Graduate Student Excellence Award!
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Massive primate genomes
Several studies on primate genomic variation have now been published in the journal Science, with some contribution from the PI. High-quality genomes from 233 primate species will help us understand evolution and help conservation. Their variation is useful to predict the impact of mutations in […]
Spring 2023
A few things happened over the past few months:
Lecture at NHM
Yesterday, I gave a lecture at the NHM in Vienna – in German – on why Evolutionary Genetics is important and admixture is interesting…
Postdoc position OPEN again!
Postdoc position (18 months) for an FWF-funded project (1000 Ideas Programme) on viruses in historical great ape samples.Apply here!
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!