Martin Kuhlwilm

So proud to see our new paper out in PNAS spearheaded by @emilypigott.bsky.social She found a tiny 46,000 yr old Neanderthal bone at Starosele (Crimea). DNA work revealed long-distance connections across Eurasia, supported by stone tool evidence @heasvienna.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper on a late Neanderthal, with contribution from the lab:
dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Faces of different guenon species to show their morphological differences

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

Monty Python understood p-hacking

An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their ancestry from a deep lineage ...

In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan Denisovans, an extinct sister group of Neandertals who lived in Eastern Eurasia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene, are known only from a handful of skeletal remains and limited genetic data, incl...

A new high-coverage #Denisovan genome, chock-full of fascinating new information. Must-read study by @stephanepeyregne.bsky.social @janetk.bsky.social and colleagues
On @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: 🧪🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@kuhlwilm.bsky.social from #HEASVienna introducing @rokofler.bsky.social for the #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics taking place now online and in-person at the #UBB @univie.ac.at

We have a few remaining seats left in the “Programming for Evolutionary Biologists” course - 10th edition, Berlin, Feb 17 to Mar 6
evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de

A highly motivated and experienced team is waiting for you with an updated curriculum!

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Tracing the genetic histories of ghost apes The footprints of extinct lineages are the closest we have to a fossil record of the African apes.

A big reason it's challenging to work out relationships of early hominins: We know today that the populations of living great apes like gorillas and bonobos have deep ancestry from diverged “ghost” lineages. Our ancestors were surely the same.

www.johnhawks.net/p/genetic-hi...

CRISPR is amazing

Open postdoc position in in my lab in Berlin @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de.

Join us to push the frontier in ancient microbial genomics. Please apply until Oct 17th. Reach out in case you have any questions.

www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2193291/job_...

"Come see me in my office"

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes?
Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :)

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Please reach out if you have any questions!

New preprint on the early evolution of BA.2.86

If you like generating genomic data from unusual medical samples, past and contemporary epidemiology and advancing methods in phylo/population genetics please get in touch.

Group website: www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpvan/

Closing date Sept 25th 2025.

#aDNA #microbialgenomics #ISBA #popgen #UCL

A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...

Happy to welcome a group of attendees from the Europe Korea Conference on Science and Technology on Campus this week. Thank you for your interest in Vienna BioCenter and the research conducted here! #viennabiocenter

@imbavienna.bsky.social @lifesciencesunivie.bsky.social

Apply for the AITHYRA-CeMM International PhD Program!

15-20 fully funded PhD fellowships available in Vienna, AT
in AI/ML and Life Sciences

Deadline for applications:
10 September 2025 apply.cemm.at

How to get introgressed fragments in genomic data? Everything you always wanted to know you find in our review in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social, led by Xin Huang:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Figure 1. Introgression and its genomic landscapes.

"Decoding Genomic Landscapes of Introgression"
by Martin Kuhlwilm (@kuhlwilm.bsky.social) & co

"The detection of introgressed loci has evolved into a diverse methodological field encompassing summary statistics, probabilistic modeling, and supervised learning."

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Pending editorial decision

An ancient influenza genome from Switzerland allows deeper insights into host adaptation during the 1918 flu pandemic in Europe - BMC Biology Background From 1918 to 1920, the largest influenza A virus (IAV) pandemic known to date spread globally causing between 20 to 100 million deaths. Historical records have captured critical aspects of ...

We were part of another viral aRNA study that was just published. In this work spearheaded by Christian Urban in the lab of Verena Schuenemann, a new protocol was assessed (good for short fragments) and a seventh 1918 flu genome was completely sequenced

bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers at Mathematical Genomics RIKEN ECL Research Unit (25-695)

Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo!
Please get in touch if you are interested.

And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab.

Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
Lab page: speidellab.github.io

There is still time to register for this event taking place today at 11:00 CEST online and in-person at @univie.ac.at

Today it is a very nice day. The BEAM lab has expanded. Looking forward to the comming years of science! @heasvienna.bsky.social

New Publication!

New Article by #HEASVienna member #LauravanderSluis et al. on 'Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay.'

#HEASPublications

Labormitarbeiter nimmt Knochenprobe mit Dremel-ähnlichem Instrument

🔬📜 PhD in Paleogenomics & Geochemistry @univie.ac.at
Join the Pinhasi Lab to push boundaries in ancient DNA from sediments 🧬🪨
Fully funded (3 yrs), earliest start 07.2025.
More infos here: vds-ecology-evolution.univie.ac.at/application/...
#PhDposition #Paleogenomics #aDNA #ScienceJobs

Palaeogenomics: A window into the genetic basis of derived traits in Homo sapiens AbstractPalaeogenomics is revolutionizing our understanding of human evolution. Recent efforts to compare the genomes our species to that of Neanderthals a

Here a book chapter on Palaeogenomics (and language evolution)! with @cedricboeckx.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬
Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

New Publication!

New Article from #HEASVienna members #KatrinSchaefer and #SonjaWindhager et al.
#HEASPublications

www.heas.at/research/pub...