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Comparative and Evolutionary Biology Lab at METU - Human Molecular Anthropology Lab at Hacettepe #ancientDNA #HumanHistory Turkish & English

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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Looking forward to welcoming Mustafa soon @humanevouu.bsky.social 🎉😊
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We are incredibly proud of our team and wish them great success in their projects! 🚀 Stay tuned for updates and results. #Research #Genomics #WomenInSTEM #HacettepeUniversity #METU
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🧪 Duygu Deniz Kazancı has been awarded the "EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant"! She will be visiting the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) in Germany to conduct research on sediment DNA (sedaDNA). 🇩🇪🧬 @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🌍 Ezgi Altınışık has been awarded the "TÜBİTAK 2247-B ERC Principal Investigator Advancement Program" following her high score in the ERC Starting Grant application! Her project will explore the gene pool, population structure, and social organization of Roman Era Anatolia. 🏛️🧬
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🏛️ Kıvılcım Başak Vural has received funding under the TÜBİTAK 1001 program! Her project is going to look at three major socio-cultural changes that have happened in Anatolia over the last 15,000 years: the Neolithic Revolution, urbanisation and migrations from Central Asia. 🦴🧬
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🧬 Mustafa Özkan has been awarded the TÜBİTAK 2219 grant to conduct research at Uppsala University, Sweden! 🇸🇪 He will focus on generating the reference genome of the Anatolian wild sheep and integrating it into the pangenome. A significant step for evolutionary genomics! 🐏💻
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Great news from our research group! 🎉 We congratulate Mustafa Özkan, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Ezgi Altınışık, and Duygu Deniz Kazancı, who have received significant support for their projects in recent months! 👏 Details below 👇 #Hacettepe #METU #AncientDNA #aDNA #TUBITAK
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Ekibimizin tüm üyelerini tebrik ediyor, bilimsel yolculuklarında başarılar diliyoruz! 🚀 Yeni sonuçları ve yayınları paylaşmak için sabırsızlanıyoruz. Bizi takipte kalın! 🔗 #Science #Research #Genetics #WomenInSTEM
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🧪 Dr. Duygu Deniz Kazancı, "EMBO Scientific Exchange Grants" desteğini kazandı! Deniz, Almanya'daki Max Planck Evrimsel Antropoloji Enstitüsü'nde (MPI-EVA) sediman DNA'sı (sedaDNA) üzerine çalışmalar yürütecek. 🇩🇪🧬 @MPI_EVA_Leipzig
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🌍 Dr. Ezgi Altınışık, ERC Starting Grant başvurusunda aldığı yüksek puan üzerine "TÜBİTAK 2247-B ERC Güçlendirme Desteği"ni kazandı! Çalışma, Roma Dönemi Anadolusu’nun gen havuzunu ve dönemin sosyal organizasyonunu inceleyecek ve ERC başvurusunu yeni verilerle güçlendirecek.🏛️🧬
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🏛️ Dr. Kıvılcım Başak Vural, TÜBİTAK 1001 programı kapsamında desteklenmeye hak kazandı! Projesiyle Anadolu’da son 15.000 yıl içinde gerçekleşmiş üç büyük sosyo-kültürel sürecin (Neolitik Dönüşüm, Şehirleşme ve Orta Asya göçleri) demografik dinamikleri araştıracak. 🦴🧬
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🧬 Dr. Mustafa Özkan, TÜBİTAK 2219 desteği ile İsveç Uppsala Üniversitesi’ne gidiyor! 🇸🇪 Proje kapsamında Anadolu yaban koyununun referans genomunu çıkaracak ve bu veriyi pangenoma entegre edecek. Evrimsel genomik için heyecan verici bir adım! 🐏💻
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Araştırma grubumuzdan harika haberler var! 🎉 Son aylarda projeleriyle önemli destekler alan Mustafa Özkan, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Ezgi Altınışık ve Duygu Deniz Kazancı'yı kutluyoruz! 👏 Detaylar zincirin devamında 👇 @Hacettepe1967 @METU_ODTU #Antropoloji #AntikDNA #aDNA #TÜBİTAK
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Çalışmanın ayrıntıları aşağıda 👇 bsky.app/profile/comp...
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Çatalhöyük hakkındaki arkeogenetik çalışmamızın Archaeology Magazine tarafından yılın en önemli 10 keşiflerinden biri olarak seçilmiş olması bizi çok mutlu etti! 💃🏻👩🏻‍🔬🧪🏺 archaeology.org/issues/janua...
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Top 10 Discoveries of 2025 - A Feminine Touch - Archaeology Magazine - January/February 2026
Çatalhöyük, Turkey
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Hannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
@archaeologymag.bsky.social has announced their to 10 research findings of 2025! Many congratulations to @compevohumang.bsky.social and all the researchers involved in these studies! archaeology.org/collection/t...
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Features - Top 10 Discoveries of 2025 - Archaeology Magazine - January/February 2026
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine’s editors reveal the year’s most exciting finds
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Follow the thread for details of our study: bsky.app/profile/comp...
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
We are delighted to learn that our Çatalhöyük archaeogenetics study published in @science.org was chosen as one of @archaeologymag.bsky.social 's top 10 discoveries of 2025. 💃🏻👩🏻‍🔬 🧪 🏺 archaeology.org/issues/janua...
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Top 10 Discoveries of 2025 - A Feminine Touch - Archaeology Magazine - January/February 2026
Çatalhöyük, Turkey
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Labımızın mezunu @meerf.bsky.social, Gene Forum 2025 kapsamında düzenlenen Artur Lind Bursu video yarışmasında Büyük Ödül’ü kazandı! 🍻🥳 Tema: 2035’te Bilimde İnsan ve Yapay Zeka 🎬 Kazanan video “The Code”u izleyin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKn...
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The Code
YouTube video by Merve Nur Güler
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🏺🧪 Our alumni @meerf.bsky.social has won the Grand Prize in the Artur Lind Scholarship video competition at Gene Forum 2025! 🎥 Theme: Human and Artificial Intelligence in Science in 2035 Watch the award-winning video The Code: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKn...
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The Code
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Kayra @kayracanpolat.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I will be presenting my poster: “The Population Genetic History of the Hittite Capital Hattusa” at #ESEB2025 📍Poster #273 If you’re around, please come by, ask questions or have a chat, and let’s talk ancient DNA & population genetics!
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Alice Piai @alicepiai.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Amazing #eseb2025 talk!
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
At #ESEB2025, Exploring Female Lineages & Mortuary Practices in Neolithic Çatalhöyük with insights from genomic & archaeological data. Don't miss Eren Yüncü’s presentation at 02:00 p.m.!
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Siz yine de okumak isterseniz, ayrıntılar burada 👩🏻‍💻🤨🤓 bsky.app/profile/comp...
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
💀+🧬+🤖 = 🎬🔥 Makalemiz artık sadece okunmuyor, izleniyor! Kurgu değil, gerçek bilim 😍😎 Teşekkürler Hacettepe ❤️ @science.org 👇 Yapay zeka animasyonumuza acil bakın: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3_C...
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Çatalhöyük Animasyonu
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Our genetic kinship estimation tool using deep learning is just out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Our models trained on simulated data work effectively on real data from diverse backgrounds and often better than available tools. Congratulations @meerf.bsky.social and team!
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DeepKin: Predicting Relatedness From Low‐Coverage Genomes and Palaeogenomes With Convolutional Neural Networks
DeepKin is a novel tool designed to predict relatedness from genomic data using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional methods for estimating relatedness often struggle when genomic data i...
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Check this out 👇 🏺🧪
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
2) They assembled genomes of 65 individuals to near completion—including centromeres and the MHC—enabling accurate detection of 26,115 structural variants per genome for improved disease studies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes - Nature
Using sequencing and haplotype-resolved assembly of 65 diverse human genomes, complex regions including the major histocompatibility complex and centromeres are analysed.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
1) They sequenced 1,019 genomes from the 1kGP cohort with long reads. Using linear and graph-based analyses, we uncovered SVs down to low allele frequencies—advancing beyond short-read population surveys. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Structural variation in 1,019 diverse humans based on long-read sequencing - Nature
Intermediate-coverage long-read sequencing in 1,019 diverse humans from the 1000 Genomes Project, representing 26 populations, enables the generation of comprehensive population-scale structural varia...
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🚨 Big news! Our group member @asoylev.bsky.social co-authored two groundbreaking papers in @nature.com! 🧬 Here’s what they achieved 👇
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
New preprint alert 🚨 The tiniest bone in the human body appears to have the best DNA preservation: "The mini yet mighty staples" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The mini yet mighty stapes: a comparison of ancient DNA yields among ossicles and the petrous bone
The petrous bone is considered the most efficient source of endogenous DNA across skeletal tissues in ancient DNA research as well as in forensic work. Recently, ancient DNA (aDNA) in auditory ossicle...
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
neolitik dönemde tarımın kulaktan kulağa yayılması @eksisozluk.com eksisozluk.com/neolitik-don...
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neolitik dönemde tarımın kulaktan kulağa yayılması
hem türkiye’den hem de dünya çapında oldukça ses getirecek iki çalışma bugün science dergisinde aynı anda yayımlandı. ikisi de odtü ve hacettepe üniversitesinden araştırmacıların öncülüğünde, erc des…
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
See the first author @dilekopter.bsky.social's post: bsky.app/profile/dile...
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
📜 This thread summarizes findings from our paper published yesterday in Science. 🔗 You can read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean
West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This study highlights the remarkable adaptability and cultural creativity of Neolithic communities. Change doesn’t always require crisis or mass migration.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The takeaway: Ideas sometimes travel faster and further than people. The pot arrives, but the potter stays. Farming can spread like gossip — from neighbor to neighbor.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Led by researchers from METU and Hacettepe, in an international collaboration, this study integrates ancient DNA with archaeology. 📊 Pottery types, stone tool morphologies, and architectural features were quantified and directly compared to the genetic data.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This pattern is quite different from the farming expansion into Europe, which was largely driven by migration. ➡️ In Anatolia, farming spread sometimes with people, sometimes with ideas, and often with a mix of both.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
In other words, people stayed physically in place, but their culture changed dramatically. Farming spread not through genetic mixing but through cultural transformation.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
But the archaeological record tells a different story: 🏺 Pottery, tools, and architecture change rapidly. People move from caves into houses, adopt new technologies, and begin farming.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Genetic analyses reveal that the genomes of individuals living in western Anatolia 9,000 years ago show strong continuity with earlier local hunter-gatherers. ➡️ This suggests there were no large-scale migrations.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This study is the first to combine genetic and archaeological data at scale and systematically to understand how farming spread from the Fertile Crescent into Anatolia and the Aegean.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
🌾 Agriculture didn’t always spread with mobility of people. New ancient DNA research shows that in western Anatolia, while communities stayed put, farming and village life spread through the movement of ideas and practices.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
📜 Bu zincir, önceki gün Science’ta yayımlanan makalemizin bulgularını özetliyor. 🔗 Makale ve detaylar burada: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean
West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Bu çalışma, Neolitik dönem insanlarının adaptasyon kabiliyetini ve kültürel yaratıcılığını gösteriyor. Değişim için her zaman bir kriz ya da büyük göç gerekmiyor.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Sonuç: Fikirler bazen insanlardan daha hızlı ve daha uzağa gider. Çömlek geliyor ama insanlar aynı kalıyor. Tarım, kulaktan kulağa komşudan görülen bir yenilik olarak da yayılabiliyor.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
ODTÜ ve Hacettepe'den araştırmacıların öncülüğünde uluslararası işbirliği ile yapılan çalışma, antik DNA sonuçlarını arkeolojik verilerle entegre etti. 📊 Seramik tipleri, taş alet morfolojileri ve mimari özellikler sayısallaştırıldı ve genetikle karşılaştırıldı.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Bu, daha önce Avrupa’ya doğru tarımın göç yoluyla yayıldığını gösteren çalışmalardan farklı. ➡️ Anadolu’da tarım bazen göçle, bazen bilgiyle, bazen ikisinin karışımıyla yayılıyor.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Yani insanlar fiziksel olarak yerinde kalıyor, ama kültürleri hızla değişiyor. Tarım, genetik karışmalarla değil kültürel bir dönüşümle yayılıyor.
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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Ama arkeolojik kayıt başka bir şeyi söylüyor: 🏺 Seramikler, aletler ve mimari yapılar hızla değişiyor. İnsanlar mağaradan evlere geçiyor, yeni teknolojiler ve tarım uygulamaları benimseniyor.
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