Category: News
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Mattias Jakobsson awarded Wallenberg Academy Fellow
Mattias Jakobsson is awarded “Wallenberg Academy Fellow”, and receives 7.5 million SEK. Congratulations! Wallenberg Academy Fellows, the career programme for young researchers launched by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in 2012, provides long-term funding for young, promising Swedish and foreign researchers from all academic fields. The programme runs in close cooperation with five royal…
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Dual ancestry of Native Americans
Our collaborative paper “Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans” was published online by Nature. Pontus Skoglund is the second co-author. Abstract The origins of the First Americans remain contentious. Although Native Americans seem to be genetically most closely related to east Asians1,2,3, there is no consensus with regard to which specific…
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The Atlas of ancient human genomes in Sweden
Riksbankens (the Swedish Central Bank) Jubileumsfond (RJ) 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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New additions to the Jakobsson Lab
Postdoc Torsten Günther and PhD student Thijessen Naidoo joined the group. Welcome!
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Sex identification of ancient remains
July 17, 2013. Our paper by Skoglund et al. (2013) on “Accurate sex identification of ancient human remains using DNA shotgun sequencing” was published by the Journal of Archaeological Science and highlighted by Nature. Highlights Abstract Accurate identification of the biological sex of ancient remains is vital for critically testing hypotheses about social structure in…
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Investigation of population size changes rests on validating the demographic model
Our review-paper Lucie Gattepaile et al. 2013. Inferring population size changes with sequence and SNP data: lessons from human bottlenecks was published by Heredity. Abstract Reconstructing historical variation of population size from sequence and single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data is valuable for understanding the evolutionary history of species. Changes in the population size of humans have…