Category: News
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It’s not really a goodbye, Tina!
Tina Saupe, a postdoctoral fellow at the Human Evolution Program and the Jakobsson Lab since March 2023, leaves our group […]
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He traces the genetic history of modern humans
The Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation has just published an update on the research by Mattias Jakobsson, one of the […]
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UppTalk podcast with Mattias
Mattias Jakobsson was a guest on the podcast series UppTalk, organised by the Science and Technology Domain at Uppsala University. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Ancient DNA HLA typing reveals significant shifts in frequency in Europe since the Neolithic
A new article by Plascencia, Jakobsson & Sánchez-Quinto (2025) is published in Nature Scientific Reports. Abstract Computational HLA typing has surged as […]
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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. […]
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Mattias Jakobsson elected a new member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Class for biosciences
Big congratulations, Mattias! The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) was founded on 2 June 1739. It is an independent, non-governmental […]