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• Mark Chernyshev was awarded the Marcus Borgström grant for human genetics researchFebruary 16, 2026
  The 140,000 SEK grant will support detailed genetic analysis of ancient southern Africans who lived 10,200 to 1,400 years ago. This research will use computational methods to reconstruct how these populations changed over time, which is of particular interest because ancient southern Africans represent one of humanity’s earliest population splits (approximately 300,000 years ago) and harbour genetic variation not captured by existing datasets. Congratulations, Mark! M… Read more: Mark Chernyshev was awarded the Marcus Borgström grant for human genetics research
• New studentsFebruary 9, 2026
  Recently, 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 2025January 20, 2026
  Marian 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 DNAJanuary 19, 2026
  An 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 grantDecember 16, 2025
  The 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

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