A new publication in Forensic Science International Genetics involving lab members investigates the kinship among Neolithic humans in a Polish burial site.
Investigating kinship of Neolithic post-LBK human remains from Krusza Zamkowa, Poland using ancient DNA
Latest news
- New studentsRecently, Larena Lab gained two students who also work with Mariam and others in the Jakobsson Lab. Lisa Brus is a Master’s student. Her thesis work aims to optimise and implement a low-cost, in-house Tn5-based library preparation protocol for Illumina sequencing using samples from Asia-Pacific populations. Maria Laura Genchi is a visiting student, completing an Erasmus… Read more: New students
- Mariam reports from the Philippines fieldwork, Nov-Dec 2025Marian Omar Gómez travelled to the Philippines again in continuation of her PhD project. This time, she was joined for shorter periods by Armin Rassooli Tilehnovi (another PhD student at Human Evolution Program, Uppsala University), Max Larena, and Mattias Jakobsson. The three primary objectives were academic outreach, establishing a formal collaboration with the National Museum… Read more: Mariam reports from the Philippines fieldwork, Nov-Dec 2025
- Lets Tweap again: Economic and SNP retrieval optimisation for target enrichment of ancient DNAAn updated preprint from the Jakobsson Lab: Saupe, T., Omar Gómez, M., Tan, E. J., Kabral, H., Scheib, C. L., Bernhardsson, C., & Jakobsson, M. (2026). Lets Tweap again: Economic and SNP retrieval optimisation for target enrichment of ancient DNA. bioRxiv, 2026-01. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.15.699081 Abstract Advancements in ancient DNA (aDNA) research have enabled the recovery of individual human… Read more: Lets Tweap again: Economic and SNP retrieval optimisation for target enrichment of ancient DNA
- Luciana Simões receives VR International Postdoc grantThe grant of 4,050,000 SEK will cover three years of Luciana’s research in collaboration with Emilia Huerta-Sanchez at Trinity College Dublin and Tom van der Valk at the Natural History Museum in Stockholm. Congratulations, Luciana! The roles of selection and demography on the fate of human genetic ancestry About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals disappeared. More… Read more: Luciana Simões receives VR International Postdoc grant
- Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of GotlandNew preprint by Magdalena Fraser, Federico Sanches-Quinto and several others from the Human Evolution Program team, and associated researchers is online now. Abstract Two archaeological cultural complexes coexisted on Gotland for over 500 years, between ∼3300 and 2800 calBCE, i.e. the Neolithic Funnelbeaker culture (FBC), and the Pitted ware culture (PWC). The ancestry of the… Read more: Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland