Category: Research
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Mark Chernyshev was awarded the Marcus Borgström grant for human genetics research
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
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Mariam reports from the Philippines fieldwork, Nov-Dec 2025
Marian Omar Gómez travelled to the Philippines again in continuation of her PhD project. This time, she was joined for
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Lets Tweap again: Economic and SNP retrieval optimisation for target enrichment of ancient DNA
An updated preprint from the Jakobsson Lab: Saupe, T., Omar Gómez, M., Tan, E. J., Kabral, H., Scheib, C. L.,
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Luciana Simões receives VR International Postdoc grant
The grant of 4,050,000 SEK will cover three years of Luciana’s research in collaboration with Emilia Huerta-Sanchez at Trinity College
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Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes, published in Nature
In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown
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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
