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Making Ancestors: The Politics of Death in Prehistoric Europe
The ERC-funded Ancestor Project (2020-25) was set to test alternative models of prehistoric inequality and pathways. It studies social relations in life using autobiography and explores pathways using funerary taphonomy. Tina Saupe, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Jakobsson Lab is one of the project participants. Her research focuses on the correlation between shifts in…
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Nobel Symposium 2025 “Palaeogenomics: charting the future of ancient DNA”
WHERE: Villa Aske (Bro) & StockholmWHEN: 26-30 May 2025 Organizers: Centre for Palaeogenetics, SciLifeLab Ancient DNA unit, Uppsala University Human Evolution research program In this symposium we are bring together leading experts in the field of palaeogenomics (15 invited speakers) and early career researchers (ECRs) from Sweden (Stockholm and Uppsala) to engage in discussions and share insights…
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New PhD project by Mariam Omar Gómez
Mariam has recently started her PhD studentship with the project “Histories of Southeast Asia through time” under Mattias Jakobsson’s and Max Larena’s (Human Evolution Program, UU) supervision. The project is based on a range of research work involving ancient DNA and uniparental markers using population genetics analysis. Congrats and good luck, Mariam!Go to Mariam’s profile…
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Ancient tree-topologies and gene-flow processes among human lineages in Africa—a new article in prepress
Gwenna, Per, Carina and Mattias are the co-authors of a new paper (prepress now) on Africa. Abstract The deep history of human evolution in Africa remains intensely debated with increasingly complex models being proposed. To investigate human evolutionary history in Africa, we sequenced and investigated 73 novel high-quality whole genomes from 14 Central and Southern…
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Ancient DNA HLA typing reveals significant shifts in frequency in Europe since the Neolithic
Mattias and Federico are the co-authors of the new article published in Nature Scientific Reports. Plascencia, A.G., Jakobsson, M. & Sánchez-Quinto, F. Ancient DNA HLA typing reveals significant shifts in frequency in Europe since the Neolithic. Sci Rep 15, 6161 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82449-w Abstract Computational HLA typing has surged as a cost-effective strategy to uncover questions regarding the…
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Investigating population continuity and ghost admixture among ancient genomes
Co-authors from the Jakobsson Lab. The recent paper by McKenna, Bernhardsson, Waxham, Jakobsson and Sjödin (2024) is published in HPGG. Abstract Ancient DNA (aDNA) can prove a valuable resource when investigating the evolutionary relationships between ancient and modern populations. Performing demographic inference using datasets that include aDNA samples however, requires statistical methods that explicitly account…