December 10, 2013. The Swedish Research Council’s “Grant for Distinguished Young Researchers” on 18 million SEK is awarded to Mattias Jakobsson.
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December 5, 2013. Torsten Günther is awarded a Wenner-Gren postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations!
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November 29, 2013. Mattias Jakobsson is awarded “Wallenberg Academy Fellow”, and receives 7.5 million SEK.
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November 20, 2013. Our collaborative paper “Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans” was published online by Nature.
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October 24, 2013. Riksbankens (the Swedish Central Bank) Jubileumsfond granted 35.4 million SEK to our program “The Atlas of ancient human genomes in Sweden”. This is a collaborative program together with Anders Götherström and Jan Storå at Stockholm University.
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October 18, 2013. Pontus Skoglund successfully defended his thesis: “Reconstructing the human past using ancient and modern genomes”. John Novembre from University of Chicago was the opponent.
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September 1, 2013. Postdoc Torsten Günther and PhD student Thijessen Naidoo joined the lab. Welcome!
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August 15, 2013. PhD student Ricardo Valela is visiting the lab during the fall semester. Welcome!
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August 1, 2013. PhD student Nina Hollfelder joined the lab. Welcome!
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July 17, 2013. Our paper “Accurate sex identification of ancient human remains using DNA shotgun sequencing” by Skoglund et al. was published by Journal of Archeological Science and highlighted by Nature.
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February 20, 2013. Our review-paper “Inferring population size changes with sequence and SNP data: lessons from human bottlenecks” by Lucie Gattepaile et al. was published by Heredity.
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February 15, 2013. Mattias Jakobsson received the Tage Erlander Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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February 9, 2013. Our paper “The relationship between FST and the frequency of the most frequent allele” was published and highlighted by Genetics.
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February 5, 2013. Our paper “Anisotropic isolation by distance: the main orientations of human genetic differentiation” was published in MBE and the cover of the March issue of MBE featured our paper.