{"id":3208,"date":"2025-12-16T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:00:53","slug":"luciana-simoes-receives-vr-international-postdoc-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/luciana-simoes-receives-vr-international-postdoc-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Luciana Sim\u00f5es receives VR International Postdoc grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"385\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IEG-Jakobsson-14-e1741703757460.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1339\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Luciana G. Sim\u00f5es<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>The grant of 4,050,000 SEK will cover three years of Luciana&#8217;s research in collaboration with Emilia Huerta-Sanchez at Trinity College Dublin and Tom van der Valk at the Natural History Museum in Stockholm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations, Luciana!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The roles of selection and demography on the fate of human genetic ancestry<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals disappeared. More than 30,000 years later, Eurasian Hunter-Gatherers&nbsp;met the same fate. However, both groups left genetic traces in populations that migrated into Eurasia:&nbsp;Anatomically Modern Humans and Anatolian farmers, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project will draw parallels between these&nbsp;decisive events in human history to investigate how population size and natural selection shaped the decline of&nbsp;Neanderthal and Eurasian Hunter-Gatherer&nbsp;lineages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?view_op=list_works&amp;hl=en&amp;hl=en&amp;user=j4-JwnoAAAAJ&amp;sortby=pubdate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luciana Sim\u00f5es on Google Scholar<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grant of 4,050,000 SEK will cover three years of Luciana&#8217;s research in collaboration with Emilia Huerta-Sanchez at Trinity College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,12,158,11],"tags":[81,123,209,215],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grants-projects","category-news","category-people","category-research","tag-ancestry","tag-hunter-gatherers","tag-neanderthals","tag-vr-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}