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CPG brings scientists from diverse disciplines together in a state-of-the-art aDNA research facility, and is jointly run by Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History. More info: www.palaeogenetics.com

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New paper alert 🚨 A study led by researchers at #CPGstlhm used 150 years of bumblebee museum specimens to reveal population stability and rising genomic diversity in Sweden's common carder bee! 🐝🧬🏛️ Check @indianadiez.bsky.social little thread ⬇️ OA article 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
1/ Just back from fieldwork in the Klondike (Yukon #Canada) We had a great time, with a fantastic team from CPG (@cpgsthlm.bsky.social) + local Yukon collaborators, digging out ancient permafrost in search for Ice Age remains dating back roughly 900,000 - 600,000 years 🦣🐭🦴🧬 And we found A LOT…
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🚨 A #CPGSthlm -led study uses a large-scale ancient DNA dataset to uncover the origins of Upper Paleolithic mammoth bone accumulations 🦣🦴🦴🦴🦴🧬 In contrast to dispersed sites, accumulations are female-biased, suggesting they resulted from human exploitation! 🏹🍖 OA paper👉 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Kraków Spadzista 2023 excavations. Photo credit: Jarosław Wilczyński
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Our #CPGSthlm delegation had great presentations and posters at #SMBE2026! 👏👏👏 ♥️🧬🦣🫎🦠🦋🐝🐀💀🦬🧪
CPG researchers at SMBE2026
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
After #ICP2026, #CPGsthlm has officially landed in Copenhagen for #SMBE2026! 🇩🇰🧬 We are bringing a delegation from Stockholm to share our latest research. Here is a breakdown of every CPG presentation happening this week 🧵👇 Don't miss out!
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
♥️ THANK YOU ♥️ We are overwhelmed by the positive comments and are incredibly happy that everyone enjoyed their time in Stockholm! #ICP2026 was only possible with the hard work of the organizing committee and a marvellous team of ECR volunteers 🟠 at @cpgsthlm.bsky.social
Organizing committee and volunteer team for #ICP2026
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Wake up you sleepy heads, rub your eyes and get out of bed! 😴 Our final plenary talk is by the great Beth Shapiro, on the use of ancient DNA to reconstruct the bison's evolutionary history. #ICP2026 🦬🧬🦴🧪
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Welcome to #ICP2026 🎉 Registration is open today at Aula Magna until 18:00. The Welcome Reception🥂 at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet) 🦴🏛️ will start at 18:00. Don't miss it!! Full conference info 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org #ancientDNA 🧪🦣🧬🦴🦠
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Isabelle Feinauer is currently defending their PhD thesis on the genomic consequences of postglacial recolonization of Scandinavian mammals with Morten Tange Olsen as the opponent. Good luck, Isa!
Morten presents to the audience.Isa and Morten discussing bear phylogenetic trees.Isa at the beginning of her presentation.Morten explains Isa's thesis topic.
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ MATTIAS JAKOBSSON (@humanevouu.bsky.social) Mattias is a leader in employing large-scale genomic datasets to reconstruct the demographic history and evolutionary processes of past human populations. Check the full conference program👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/program/
Mattias poses with a bone in his hand.ICP2026 flyer
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🧬 New paper in Cell! Analysis of 12 cave lion genomes shows that cave lions and modern lions may have diverged more than three times earlier than previously thought – as early as 1.7 million years ago! AND…they interbred when temperatures dropped! Paper: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/9
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
#CPGStlhm 's PhD candidate @officialernst.bsky.social is currently defending his thesis on using metagenomics sedimentary DNA to reconstruct past ecosystems 🧬🏞️ in Sweden with Laura Epp as opponent. Good luck, Ernst!
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Grattis till Anders Götherström professor i molekylär arkeologi vid Stockholms universitet och forskningsledare vid @cpgsthlm.bsky.social som har valts in som ny ledamot i KVA. @gotherstrom.bsky.social @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social www.su.se/nyheter/nyhe...
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
For more than a century, vast mammoth bone deposits in Central Europe have puzzled scientists. Now EU-funded researchers are revealing what they tell us about how Ice Age humans hunted and survived. Research project including @cpgsthlm.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @horizoneu.bsky.social bit.ly/4uko4PN
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Mammoth bones reveal secrets of Ice Age hunters
Shortly before the peak of the last Ice Age, herds of woolly mammoths roamed across Central Europe, following seasonal routes through a vast, frigid landscape of grassland and tundra. Across the regio...
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David Díez del Molino 🇪🇸🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈 @indianadiez.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
What do mammoth bone accumulation sites scattered across Europe tell about ancient humans? 🦴🦣🧬 Check this nice piece about our MAMBA project in the Horizon Magazine. Article ➡️ bit.ly/4uko4PN
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Mammoth bones reveal secrets of Ice Age hunters
Shortly before the peak of the last Ice Age, herds of woolly mammoths roamed across Central Europe, following seasonal routes through a vast, frigid landscape of grassland and tundra. Across the regio...
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New paper alert 🚨 A study led by #CPGSthlm researchers found DNA from a bear in 9.6k year old lake sediments. This potentially rewrites the history of brown bears in Scandinavia! 🧬🐻🐾🏔️🧊 Check @officialernst.bsky.social thread 👉 bsky.app/profile/offi... OA article 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Ancient environmental genome reveals a migratory brown bear individual in Early Holocene Scandinavia | PNAS
After the last ice age, species migrated into a newly deglaciated Scandinavia. Brown bear recolonization is thought to have occurred from two direc...
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ CRISTINA VALDIOSERA (@universidadburgos.bsky.social) Cristina is a leading expert in ancient human DNA, focusing on the genomic history of past populations and the impact of cultural shifts on human evolution. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
📢 Next #HAAMeeting at #ICP2026! @palaeogenomics.bsky.social 🗓 June 22 📍Stockholm 🇸🇪 (hybrid) 🎤 Poster presenters + no-talk attendees: apply for a flash talk by May 27: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info coming soon 👀 haam-community.github.io/events/2026/... #ancientDNA #paleogenomics
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Submission form for a flash talk at the Second HAAMeeting (ICP 2026 Pre-Conference meeting)
Did you NOT get a talk at ICP2026 scheduled from 23rd to 26th of June in Stockholm (Sweden) and you're focusing on anything related to human (modern or ancient) DNA, mobility, demographic history, or ...
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We present DNAharvester 🎉🦴🚜🧬 A pipeline to process highly degraded ancient DNA data that integrates metagenomic filtering, competitive mapping, multiple alignment strategies, reference bias evaluation and much more. GitHub: github.com/NBISweden/DN... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
DNAharvester's workflow.
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ RICHARD GREEN (UCSC Paleogenomics Lab) Ed is a pioneer in developing novel molecular and computational approaches to recover, sequence, and analyze DNA from challenging, low-quality samples. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
Ed showing a replica of a skull.ICP2026 flyer
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Come join us in Stockholm as a PhD student for the next 4 years!
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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
How did catastrophic black death and myxomatosis outbreaks on an isolated island affect the genomes of humans & rabbits, respectively? And how did the microbes evolve in response to this? PhD position @cpgsthlm.bsky.social with Anders Götherström and me as supervisors! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
New paper alert 🚨 Researchers at #CPGStlhm have analyzed ancient genomes from an Islamic cemetery in Ibiza (950–1150 CE) 🏖️ They found a highly diverse community with ancestry from Europe and North Africa! The paper was published in @natcomms.nature.com OA link www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Map of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages, showing the Islamic areas of influence and Ibiza.Ricardo, lead author of the article, processing one of the samples in the lab.
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Dogs were established as distinct species already during Ice Age. New study in Nature has uncovered earliest genetic evidence for the existence of dogs and indicates that dogs were widely distributed by 14,000 years ago across large geographic areas. @cpgsthlm.bsky.social www.su.se/english/news...
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Trots att brunbjörnen nästan utrotades i början på 1900-talet så har varken inavelsgraden eller individernas genetiska variation påverkats. Detta överraskande resultat kan troligtvis förklaras med genetiskt utbyte via vandrande hanbjörnar. Studie från @cpgsthlm.bsky.social www.su.se/nyheter/nyhe...
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Amanda Lindahl @amandalindahl.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Check out our bear-y cool paper about Scandinavian brown bears published today in Royal Society Open Science!🐻 More about it in the thread🧵 @cpgsthlm.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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Temporal genomics reveals widespread but unexpected consequences of a bottleneck in the Scandinavian brown bear
Abstract. After the last ice age, the brown bear (Ursus arctos) recolonized Scandinavia, likely from two different source populations, resulting in two sub
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Two palaeogeneticists traveling to Northern Yukon's wilderness in search of extremely old DNA 🧊🧬🧪 A mysterious permafrost mummy hidden in the collections 🦴🕵️ An Agatha Christie book 📖 @gog1693.bsky.social behind-the-scenes story on his paper has EVERYTHING! Paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The mysterious mummified tissue found in the collections, nicknamed "Mr. Parker Pyne".Gonzalo sampling some specimen in Whitehorse collections.It was a porcupine!
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ PONTUS SKOGLUND (@crick.ac.uk) Pontus is a leader in developing cutting-edge computational methods and statistical tools for the analysis of highly degraded ancient DNA. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ LUCY VAN DORP (@ugiatucl.bsky.social) Lucy is a leading expert in ancient microbe research, using ancient DNA to reconstruct the origins, evolution, and spread of major human pathogens throughout history. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Congrats to Alicia Muriel and Michael Mitschke for successfully presenting their research in Half-Time PhD seminars!! 🎉🐑🐝🧬
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
@knmoreland.bsky.social and @mootspoints.bsky.social are currently presenting their mammoth research at the International Conference of Mammoths and their Relatives (ICMR) 🦣🐘🧬 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Kelsey is presenting her research.Hannah is presenting her research.
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Read our new paper in Genome Biology & Evolution to learn more about how sequencing the genome from a 14,000 year old wolf puppy's last meal yielded novel insights into the woolly rhino's extinction: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... 📷 Mietje Germonpré
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Congrats to @knmoreland.bsky.social for the successful Half Time PhD seminar 🎉🦣🧬
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
WOW❗🤯 The amount and quality of the abstracts we've received have completely blown us away! More than 300 abstracts from researchers at all levels and from 33 countries. We will communicate the selected talks and open registration soon 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org #ICP2026 will be UNMISSABLE 😍💪
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
LAST CALL ☎️ Abstract submission for #ICP2026 closes on November 30th❗ Don't miss the opportunity to showcase your exciting ancient DNA research next summer 🦴🦣🐕👨‍🔬🧬 Abstract submission and more info here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org We are looking forward to welcoming you to beautiful Stockholm!
Aerial image of Riddarholmen, a small island part of Gamla Stan, the historical centre of Stockholm.ICP2026 flyer
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Meet our plenary speakers 💁‍♂️ BETH SHAPIRO (@ucscgenomics.bsky.social) Beth is a leader in the study of ancient DNA from extinct species and is now trying to develop tools to de-extinct prehistoric life. Conference info 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org ⚠️ Abstract submission closing soon, 30th Nov! ⚠️
Beth smiles at the camera.ICP2026 flyer
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
⏰ The clock is ticking❗ LESS THAN 10 DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts (30th Nov). Do it here👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ Many of you are asking for the registration fees 💸. We are still working out the details, but we estimate 400-500€ for regular attendees and 300-400€ for students.
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Abstracts – International Conference on Palaeogenomics 2026
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alexgilardet.bsky.social @alexgilardet.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Our manuscript on bovine deep-time paleogenomics at Denisova Cave and in the broader mid-latitude Asia is online! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... 🦬🦴🧬 Main findings in the 🧵 below ⬇️ @cpgsthlm.bsky.social @genomebiolevol.bsky.social #aDNA
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Paleogenomics Reveals a Loss of Bovine Lineages in Mid-latitude Asia Over the Last 200,000 Years
Abstract. Bovines have a complex yet poorly understood evolutionary history that is characterized by admixture and diversity loss during the Late Pleistoce
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
🦣 🤯 🦣 🤯 🦣 Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost! Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Meet our plenary speakers 💁‍♂️ CHRISTINA WARINNER (@harvard.edu) @christinawarinner.bsky.social investigates ancient microbiomes to reveal insights into the diets and health of past human populations. Conference info 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org ⚠️ Abstract submission open! (deadline 30th Nov) ⚠️
Christina Warinner posing for a picture.ICO2026 info flyer
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Meet our plenary speakers 💁‍♂️ IAN BARNES, Professor at @nhm-london.bsky.social Ian is a pioneer in the use of #ancientDNA to investigate evolution and extinction in Late Pleistocene mammals and other wild fauna. Full info👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org ⚠️Abstract submission open! (deadline 30th Nov)
Professor Ian Barnes casually poses for a pictureICP2026 flyer
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#CpgSthlm PhD student @sam-siwatlaali.bsky.social is coauthor on a new Scientific Data paper: “Decoding the Peruvian Amazon with in situ DNA barcoding of vertebrate and plant taxa” 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🧬🧬🧬 🦣❤️🦣 🧬🧬🧬 New #CpgSthlm paper led by @maridehasque.bsky.social published in Biology Letters! Genomic and morphological analysis reveals long-term mammoth hybridization in British Columbia, Canada royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Interested in giving a talk at the Plant and Animal Genome conference (PAG 33) in San Diego? Together with several colleagues, we are arranging 5 interconnected sessions. To submit an abstract, please fill out this Google Form before Oct 12th, 2025: forms.gle/q7j275Di6umY...
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Samantha López Clinton (she/her) @sam-siwatlaali.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Our new study is out! We analysed 40 Malaise trap samples collected across Sweden by the Insect Biome Atlas project using #metabarcoding and #metagenomics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @cpgsthlm.bsky.social @tvdvalk.bsky.social
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Small Bugs, Big Data: Metagenomics for Arthropod Biodiversity Monitoring
We used metagenomic sequencing of 40 bulk arthropod samples collected across Sweden to classify taxa and compare results with metabarcoding from the same samples. While metabarcoding was more sensiti...
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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
One week left to apply for our postdoc position on Deep-Time Small Rodent Palaeogenomics! This is a 2-year full-time position that includes Swedish employment benefits, as well as funding for research expenses and work-related travel. More info and application link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Check out @benjaminguinet.bsky.social's fantastic thread explaining how he recovered the oldest host-associated microbial genome! 🦠🦣🧬 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Ancient host-associated microbes obtained from mammoth remains
A study of 483 mammoth remains spanning over a million years reveals ancient host-associated microbes preserved in bones and teeth, offering new insights into the long-term evolution of Pleistocene mi...
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Benjamin Guinet @benjaminguinet.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🧵 Exciting news from our lab #CpgSthlm! 🥳 Thousands of years ago, mammoths roamed, and so did their fascinating microbial companions. Our latest study, published in 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘭, brings them to light 🦣🦠🧬 Read the full paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
Mammoth tusk emerging from the permafrost on Wrangel Island (Siberia) in 2017 (photo by Love Dalén)
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth! New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell! Paper: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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