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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics

@lpcg.bsky.social
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Ancient DNA Lab at the Center for New Technologies, University of Warsaw. Working on🧔‍♂️🐿️🐀🦌🐻🫎🐐🐈‍⬛🦇🐎🐹😺 and more! adna.cent.uw.edu.pl

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From the VIII Conference on Interdisciplinary Research on the Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Eurasia in Białowieża. Congratulations to @fleotta.bsky.social and @gdamentka.bsky.social on winning the best student presentation awards!
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A wonderful week in Malta for the 6th Microvertibrate Working Group Meeting.
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Kaaviya Balakrishnan @kaaviya.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you are working on microvertebrates (fieldwork, curation, biomolecular, etc.), please fill out this short survey. This would help us put together best-practice guidelines that reflect current practices. forms.gle/kJaf9D4U6FHE...
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Towards Standardised Practice in Microvertebrate Research
This questionnaire is intended to capture current practices across the microvertebrate research community. Your responses will inform the development of best-practice recommendations by the Microverte...
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
How did the voles get to #Orkney? Did Neolithic farmers really bring them along? @kaaviya.bsky.social at the @palaeogenomics.bsky.social today
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
@mateuszbaca.bsky.social at @palaeogenomics.bsky.social On the population dynamics of small mammals through the Pleistocene climate change.
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
6 posters and a talk today at @palaeogenomics.bsky.social today! Come talk to @mateuszbaca.bsky.social @martynamolak.bsky.social @popovicdani.bsky.social @gdamentka.bsky.social @naturalice.bsky.social and Barbara!
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Always happy to meet @aarc-community.bsky.social Extra happy @naturalice.bsky.social and @gdamentka.bsky.social got to talk about their research.
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We made it to Stockholm for @palaeogenomics.bsky.social 🤩
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Featuring two talks from our lab! @naturalice.bsky.social @gdamentka.bsky.social See you in Stockholm! 🐁
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New aDNA paper on Eurasian moose 🫎 @popovicdani.bsky.social @mateuszbaca.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Phylogeographic and demographic responses of Eurasian moose to climate change since the Late Pleistocene - Heredity
Heredity - Phylogeographic and demographic responses of Eurasian moose to climate change since the Late Pleistocene
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Standing with the scientific community at the #3%forScience protest to support continued investment in research, education, and evidence-based progress.
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The sum of public and private funds for R&D is a mere 1.41% of the GDP in Poland. Let's fight for 3% by 2030!
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
@martynamolak.bsky.social and Michał Golubiński at #POPGEN2026 Population Genetics from the Baltic Perspective: Past Migrations and Relations Conference in Vilnius.
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Kaaviya Balakrishnan @kaaviya.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Neolithic Skara Brae in #Orkney Unfortunately did not spot any voles (yet!) :(
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
New aDNA research from #Poland on the #Piasts identity remains in Płock & Warsaw, traces the Y-haplogroups of #Konrad I’s line, and reveals new European dynasty links. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Genetic genealogy of the Piast dynasty and related European royal families - Nature Communications
House of Piast was one of the royal dynasties that shaped the political structure of medieval Europe in the 10th century CE. Here, the authors use ancient DNA analysis to build the genetic genealogy t...
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An opportunity to join our lab and work with the amazing @popovicdani.bsky.social (🥳) on brown bears! #ancientDNA #BBB #PhD
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Kaaviya Balakrishnan @kaaviya.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Got to present a poster at the #MuseomicsSymposium in Vienna and eat lunch at the dinosaur exhibition. Can’t decide what was the better part of the day.
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Yesterday we had some enthusiastic students come in to learn about genetics. #DOKO26
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Join @popovicdani.bsky.social today to hear about human animal interaction through time!
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Danijela Popović @popovicdani.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Sampling for the @BaBBe project at the University of Belgrade! New Pleistocene and Holocene brown bear samples are heading to Warsaw. 🐻🧬 @lpcg.bsky.social
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Something to look forward to this Monday! @lovedalen.bsky.social
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
New #aDNA Paper Alert from @martynamolak.bsky.social and team! In the #LateRomanPeriod #Masłomęcz, now in eastern Poland, gathered people from all corners of Europe! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New Paper Alert 🔊 aDNA shows #LateIronAge Goth community of the #MasłomęczGroup were a genetically heterogenous population with interesting burial customs. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Cosmopolitanism in the depths of Barbaricum evidenced by archaeogenomic data from the Late Iron Age Goth community of the Masłomęcz group - Genome Biology
Background High mobility and extensive trade and military interactions are well recognized throughout the Late Iron Age Europe. The extremely rich archaeological record for the Masłomęcz group – a Got...
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
@naturalice.bsky.social is now on Erasmus at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden, working with Prof. Markus Zöttl to study telomere dynamics in mole-rats. Here’s a great shot by Yannick Francioli of one of the target species—science abroad never looked so cute!
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Sampling some #IronAge humans in Lublin
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
New paper on hamsters! 🐹 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Biogeographic history of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene European small hamsters (subfamily Cricetinae) - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Biogeographic history of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene European small hamsters (subfamily Cricetinae)
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🎉Congratulations🎉 @naturalice.bsky.social and Gabriela Damentka for receiving Preludium-24 Grants! For the next three years, the National Science Centre will support their research on Arvicolinae and Terricola! More details in the thread below
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
New PhD position with @martynamolak.bsky.social to research population genomics of an Iron Age Goth community from eastern Poland. You get a super supportive PI and fun lab to work with! Details linked. www.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...
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Danijela Popović @popovicdani.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Happy to share that our interdisciplinary research, exploring the participation of African big cats in provincial Roman amphitheatres, is now online! @lpcg.bsky.social link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
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The first biomolecular evidence of leopards (Panthera pardus, Linnaeus, 1758) from the Roman era reveals the participation of African big cats in provincial amphitheatres
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Here is this week's seminar with @mateuszbaca.bsky.social
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
@gnomoboleto.bsky.social hosted a super fun owl pellet workshop today! Owl pellets are regurgitated balls of indigestible material like bones, fur, and feathers. We found a few different voles and frogs in ours today.
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
How many scientists does it take to set up a new microscope? We'll let you know when we figure it out 😩
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Join @martynamolak.bsky.social this Thursday!
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Reminder: MInAS Ancient DNA metadata standards workshop is just around the corner. 30.10.2025, 9:00-12:00 CET; online www.mixs-minas.org
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Join @martynamolak.bsky.social at the MIM UW seminar Oct. 29, 2025, 10:15 to hear about the bioinformatic challenges in investigating the past using DNA. www.mimuw.edu.pl/en/seminars/...
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Danijela Popović @popovicdani.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Brown bears participated in Roman spectacles, read more in our latest paper! @lpcg.bsky.social #BaBBe
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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Słowianie a genetyka: skąd przyszli nasi przodkowie? DNA odkrywa prawdę | Polityka o historii
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Congratulations @mateuszbaca.bsky.social for being appointed head of the Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics! 🎉👑 Beer on your tab this weekend! 😌
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
@martynamolak.bsky.social at the 11th International Conference of the Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies. #HomoMigrans. The Role of Migration and Mobility in Human History and Prehistory.
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This #FestiwalNauki at CeNT, we have two aDNA sessions to feed your curiosity! Take this opportunity to learn about the methods and achievements in aDNA with @martynamolak.bsky.social and @mateuszbaca.bsky.social Register with sekretariat@cent.uw.edu.pl from the 15th of September. Details in 🧵
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
And the conferences continue! This week, Uni Warsaw is hosting the 11th Polish Evolutionary Conference #PCE. We are pitching in with organising, volunteering, and presenting too! Here's @naturalice.bsky.social on #MicrotusArvalis. Read her recent paper academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Last week at the 7th conference on Species and genetic diversity of the Pleistocene and Holocene fauna in Eurasia in Smoleń, Poland.
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
What do you mean @isba11.bsky.social is over already?
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Did you get a chance to look at @kaaviya.bsky.social and @mateuszbaca.bsky.social posters? @martynamolak.bsky.social had a great talk too! @isba11.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Did you catch them by their posters today at @isba11.bsky.social? @popovicdani.bsky.social on the Sandomierz Chessmen and Barbara Bujalska on Late Pleistocene European small hamsters Posters up until Friday!
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
@isba11.bsky.social !!
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Did you catch @kaaviya.bsky.social's vole talk? @aarc-community.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Our phd student @kaaviya.bsky.social will give a flash talk on #OrkneyVoles. We apologies in advance for all the terrible puns she will make. It is inevitable 🥲
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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
@popovicdani.bsky.social, Gabrysia Damentka and Aleksandra Żeromska at #SMBE2025 in Beijing!
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