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Mateja Hajdinjak

@matejahajdi.bsky.social
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❤️ ancient DNA, Neandertals, and gallons of coffee 🦴💀🧪🧬👩‍🔬 | First Gen 📚 | Lise Meitner Research Group leader, Hominin Palaeogenomics (HOPE) at MPI EVA, Leipzig

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 05/10/2026
I'm delighted to kick off a new project from the @nytimes.com science desk called Unknowns. My contribution is an essay on the consciousness of babies. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jDfXLU
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Are Babies Conscious? (Gift Article)
By pinpointing when it begins in young humans, scientists hope to better understand what consciousness is, and how it arises, in all of us.
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alexgilardet.bsky.social @alexgilardet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New Ice Age species just dropped! 🦴🧬 Check out our study in @currentbiology.bsky.social where we identified an extinct megafaunal species previously unknown to genomics from small non-diagnostic bone fragments at Denisova Cave and southern Siberia. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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Redirecting
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it
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Arev P. Sümer @arevsumer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Our new study with @benmpeter.bsky.social is now on biorxiv! Here we present a new computational tool which makes it possible to conduct population genetic analyses from very contaminated and very low quality archaic human genomes. (1/7)
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Stephan Schiffels @stschiff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you are interested in learning computational population genetics and ancient genomics, I have curated my list of workshops and online tutorials (and will continue to do so) indicating suitability for self-learners and status. You find the list [here](www.stephanschiffels.de/resources.html).
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Alex Hübner @alexhbnr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨 Paper alert: if you are working on #metagenomics, particularly from #ancientDNA, and want to get into de novo #assembly, check out our latest work: 📄 De novo assembly and authentication of ancient DNA metagenomes with nf-core/mag (journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...) (1/4)
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De novo assembly and authentication of ancient DNA metagenomes with nf-core/mag
Author summary Advancements in genomic sequencing analyses are increasingly allowing researchers to reconstruct the genomes of microbial ‘dark matter’—those microbial species that are difficult to iso...
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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Must-know numbers in human genetics -- As many of you know, I'm writing a free online textbook in human genetics. In this blog post I cover a key skill for genome scientists from that book: how to use mental math to figure out key genome properties. jkpritchard.substack.com/p/on-fermi-p...
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On Fermi Problems in Human Genetics
and some very useful numbers about human genomes to get you started!
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 04/08/2026
public libraries ftw
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 31/07/2026
Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.
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Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts
Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Copenhagen job alert 🚨 GLOBE (@ucph.bsky.social) is hiring a 21-mo Postdoc in #Bioinformatics & #ComputationalProteomics Work with @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social, @fridowelker.bsky.social, @brandtgroup.bsky.social & more mapping collagen/keratin diversity across 1000s of genomes. 📅 Deadline Aug 31
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Postdoc of Bioinformatics and Computational Proteomics
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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thanks to my terrific students and colleagues who nominated me for the #SMBE2026 lifetime achievement award. You make science fun!
Miriam Bravo, Maria Nieves-Colon, Genevieve Houseman, me, Tanvi Honap and Joanna Malukiewicz Award picture with SMBE president Juliette de Meaux
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moicoll.bsky.social @moicoll.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Interactive schedule for SMBE2026. Enjoy the conference! #SMBE2026 github.com/MoiColl/SMBE...
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GitHub - MoiColl/SMBE2026_schedule: Interactive SMBE2026 schedule
Interactive SMBE2026 schedule. Contribute to MoiColl/SMBE2026_schedule development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
One year of waiting - it will be worth it! #SMBE2026 starts today, at the Tivoli Hotel & Congress Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark. Join us for a week full of molecular evolution and genome science, supported by our amazing hosts at the LOC and our sponsors. #society
SMBE 2026 starts today!
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Marco Capodiferro @marcocapo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We're still absorbing tons of inspiring notes from #ICP2026, and already planning the next one. #ICP2028 is coming to Dublin 🍀 and we can't wait to welcome the ancient DNA 🧬 community in Ireland. We'll do our best to build on the outstanding work of the Stockholm committee. More info coming soon!
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
#ICP2026 Stockholm is over, but ICP will return... in 2028! #ICP2028 will be hosted by Trinity College Dublin 🎉☘️🇮🇪
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Mateja Hajdinjak @matejahajdi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Our late Neandertal paper is officially out! 💀❤️🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... It was years in the making, a tremendous feat spearheaded by our PhD student Alba Bossoms Mesa and co-led by @janetk.bsky.social and @benmpeter.bsky.social
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Kate Wong @katewong.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Today is my last day at Scientific American, which has been sold to LabX media group. For three decades I've led the magazine's coverage of human origins, archaeology, paleontology, animal behavior, ecology, BIRDS. End of an era. Anyway this feels weird to say, but I'm now available for assignments!
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Mateja Hajdinjak @matejahajdi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ancient human DNA from the cave walls! 🤯 Wonderful new paper led by Alba Bossoms Mesa and a great team of people that made this work possible.
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
If you're you have experience in working in animal / pathogen #aDNA and are interested in a postdoctoral position as part of my ERC Project HERDPATH, please DM/email me kevin[at]palaeome.org
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
#SMBE2026 S25: Deep time human genomics 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 3:50pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme
SMBE2026| Deep time human genomics
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Dr James Cole @jamescolearch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
New paper alert: such a privilege to work with the amazing @elliescerri.bsky.social, @matejahajdi.bsky.social, and @chrisbstringer.bsky.social on a new review paper for the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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John Novembre @jnovembre.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Spread the word! UChicago BSD is currently searching for an instructional professor (open rank) to help develop and support graduate training in quantitative biology at UChicago. This is an Instructional Professor position (open rank). apply.interfolio.com/183517.
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Isabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
⚠️ Reminder ⚠️ Opening positions (1 Post-doc and 2 Engineers) in #Archaeology, #Paleoanthropololy, #Prehistory, #Statistics at Bordeaux University Application information ⬇️ sciences-archeologiques.u-bordeaux.fr/gpr/jobs/off...
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Open positions
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Harald Ringbauer @hringbauer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The HAAM summer school is always a fantastic online workshop on popgen analysis via aDNA. Check out the 2026 version! ⬇️💡🧬
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Jenny Tung @jennytung.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
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Professorship in population genetics in the field of evolutionary anthropology and medicine (W2)
Faculties & Facilities
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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data: Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Research engineer - Uppsala University
Research engineer, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
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Mateja Hajdinjak @matejahajdi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Second time attending @eshesociety.bsky.social conference together ❤️💀 last year baby Ollie helped his mama to organise #ESHE2024 in Zageb 🇭🇷, this year celebrating being 5 months old at #ESHE2025 in Paris. 🇨🇵 Could not have made it without the support of @alexhbnr.bsky.social ❤️
Mateja and the baby Ollie sitting on the park bench outside of the ESHE2025 conference venue, at the beautiful Jardin des Plantes in Paris. With the companion pigeon in the background.
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Helen Fewlass @helenfewlass.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉 #HorizonEurope #ERCStG
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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Congratulations to Oleg Sobchuk and Arthur Kocher on being awarded @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants!! 🥳 @sobchuk.bsky.social will be exploring the macroevolution of European literature, while Kocher will be studying ancient pathogen dynamics. See: tinyurl.com/mr2m2zms & tinyurl.com/9cwdnc54
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026 1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)
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Leo Speidel @leospeidel.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo! Please get in touch if you are interested. And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab. Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r... Lab page: speidellab.github.io
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Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers at Mathematical Genomics RIKEN ECL Research Unit (25-695)
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Pooja Swali @poojaswali.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬 Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️
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Nada Salem @nadasalem.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I'm beyond excited to share our new paper in Nature! We sequenced the first ancient human autosomal genomes from the Central Sahara, two ~7,000-year-old individuals from Takarkori in Libya, revealing a long-isolated North African lineage: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here's a short thread: (1/n)
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Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage - Nature
Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.
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Harald Ringbauer @hringbauer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Our study analyzing the DNA of ~7ky-old Pastoralists from the "Green Sahara" is out! Who were these people, and how did herding spread into the region when the present-day desert was dotted with water bodies? 🧬🦴🏜️ (1/7) #PopGen #GreenSahara #aDNA www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage - Nature
Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.
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European Society for the Study of Human Evolution @eshesociety.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025
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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Are you a postdoc working on global environmental change? Apply for the new #TenureTrack professorship on #Geography of #Global Environmental Change and join us at the Geography Department of Humboldt-University Berlin! @humboldtuni.bsky.social --> hu.berlin/GeographyGEC
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W1 Professorship in Geography of Global Environmental Change (with tenure track to W3)
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Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature
The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...
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Mikkel Heide Schierup @mikkelschierup.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Two weeks left to apply (Jan 15) for postdoc (2.5 years) in population genetics of the Paleolithic in my group in Aarhus, Denmark. It is an interdisciplinary project with Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, and a new postdoc in his group covering archaeology. Apply using tinyurl.com/4jt4dru4
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Postdoctoral position in population genomics of the palaeolithic - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University
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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics! Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics. Please spread the word! www.su.se/english/sear...
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Prof. Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Apply for this funded PhD with me, Selina Brace and Silvia Bello at UCL & the Natural History Museum: Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection. #ZooMs #ancientDNA #stableisotopes www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
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Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection. | UCL Trees
Bone and antler became important raw materials for Upper Palaeolithic people. Osseous materials were used to make tools such as harpoons, projectile points, needles, and portable art. It is generally ...
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Mateja Hajdinjak @matejahajdi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
@lauritsskov.bsky.social is by far one of the nicest and smartest people that I know, so this is really a great opportunity to have an awesome supervisor! ;) apply apply! 👇
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mchintalapati.bsky.social @mchintalapati.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Enthralled to see our work published in Science. This wouldn’t have been possible without the wonderful contributions of the team comprising @moorjanipriya.bsky.social @leonardoiasi.bsky.social @benmpeter.bsky.social @lauritsskov.bsky.social @matejahajdi.bsky.social and Alba!
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Mateja Hajdinjak @matejahajdi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
And a great 🧵 breaking-down the paper with @leonardoiasi.bsky.social, @mchintalapati.bsky.social , @lauritsskov.bsky.social , Alba Bossoms Mesa, @benmpeter.bsky.social and @moorjanipriya.bsky.social 👇
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Mateja Hajdinjak @matejahajdi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
So incredibly proud of and happy for @arevsumer.bsky.social , @leonardoiasi.bsky.social and @mchintalapati.bsky.social, and their two papers that just came out yesterday! 💀❤️🧬 And so incredibly grateful to be able to work with such an amazing group of people. :) A great 🧵 by @arevsumer.bsky.social👇
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Elena Zavala @elenairene.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Wonderful to see so many new people here! :-) Interested in sedaDNA, aDNA, or forensic genetics? Join me in Copenhagen! I'm hiring a PhD and a Postdoc to start in 2025. Application deadline 28 November employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...
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PhD fellowship in Sediment DNA at the Department of Forensic Medicine
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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Three (!) Tenure-Track Positions in Biodiversity Research at Stockholm University and SciLifeLab! Each position comes with a great start-up package to finance research costs and hiring of PhD students and postdocs. su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Assistant Professor in Biodiversity (up to three positions)
at the Department for Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, the Department of Environmental Science, the Department of Geological Sciences, the Department of Physical Geography or the Department of
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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 31/01/2024
Buried under 8 meters of rock and debris in a German cave, researchers found proof Homo sapiens arrived in northern Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought—and overlapped with our Neanderthal cousins for millennia. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Alex Hübner @alexhbnr.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
We are currently continuing our efforts on obtaining natural products from reconstructed microbial genomes after having published its feasibility earlier this year. Please get in touch if you are interested in Master theses or PhD positions. www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Natural products from reconstructed bacterial genomes of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic
Ancient metagenomes allow for resurrection of Pleistocene bacterial metabolites.
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