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  • Ideas that change the world.
    Human Evolution was the focus of the latest episode (Season 6, Ep. 112) in the Nobel Prize Museum’s podcast series, Ideas that change the world, with Mattias Jakobsson. We all carry the entire history of humanity in our genes. When researchers examine the DNA of people living today and compare it with the genetic material… Read more: Ideas that change the world.
  • New master student in the group
    Anna Louise Olsson has joined the group to work on her master’s degree project, Genomic History of Northwestern Africa since the Iron Age, under the mentorship of Luciana Simões. Welcome to the team, Loiuse! Project summary North Africa has long been a crucial crossroads, connecting sub-Saharan Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Near East, facilitating cultural… Read more: New master student in the group
  • Mark Chernyshev is the new postdoctoral researcher in the Jakobsson Lab
    We are happy to announce that Mark Chernyshev has recently joined the team as a bioinformatician researcher in population genetics. He studies ancient and modern population demography using whole-genome sequencing datasets and develops tools using Markov models. Mark has earned his PhD from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm for his work on Computational approaches to study… Read more: Mark Chernyshev is the new postdoctoral researcher in the Jakobsson Lab
  • Post-fieldwork in Philippines – impressions
    Max Larena and Mariam Omar Gómez visited the Philippines this summer. Mariam was travelling around, meeting collaborators, collecting DNA data and immersing in the languages and cultures of the region she focuses on in her PhD work.
  • 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 this summer. Tina received the postdoctoral fellowship from Wenner-Gren Foundations in Sweden to study mobility in the Levant during the Bronze Age period (Bronze Age Rake project, 2023-25). She has also worked on the ERC-funded… Read more: It’s not really a goodbye, Tina!

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