CompEvo & HumanG Labs

Looking forward to welcoming Mustafa soon @humanevouu.bsky.social 🎉😊

We are incredibly proud of our team and wish them great success in their projects! 🚀 Stay tuned for updates and results.

#Research #Genomics #WomenInSTEM #HacettepeUniversity #METU

🧪 Duygu Deniz Kazancı has been awarded the "EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant"!

She will be visiting the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) in Germany to conduct research on sediment DNA (sedaDNA). 🇩🇪🧬

@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

🌍 Ezgi Altınışık has been awarded the "TÜBİTAK 2247-B ERC Principal Investigator Advancement Program" following her high score in the ERC Starting Grant application!
Her project will explore the gene pool, population structure, and social organization of Roman Era Anatolia. 🏛️🧬

🏛️ Kıvılcım Başak Vural has received funding under the TÜBİTAK 1001 program!
Her project is going to look at three major socio-cultural changes that have happened in Anatolia over the last 15,000 years: the Neolithic Revolution, urbanisation and migrations from Central Asia. 🦴🧬

🧬 Mustafa Özkan has been awarded the TÜBİTAK 2219 grant to conduct research at Uppsala University, Sweden! 🇸🇪

He will focus on generating the reference genome of the Anatolian wild sheep and integrating it into the pangenome. A significant step for evolutionary genomics! 🐏💻

Great news from our research group! 🎉 We congratulate Mustafa Özkan, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Ezgi Altınışık, and Duygu Deniz Kazancı, who have received significant support for their projects in recent months! 👏
Details below 👇
#Hacettepe #METU #AncientDNA #aDNA #TUBITAK

Ekibimizin tüm üyelerini tebrik ediyor, bilimsel yolculuklarında başarılar diliyoruz! 🚀 Yeni sonuçları ve yayınları paylaşmak için sabırsızlanıyoruz.

Bizi takipte kalın! 🔗 #Science #Research #Genetics #WomenInSTEM

🧪 Dr. Duygu Deniz Kazancı, "EMBO Scientific Exchange Grants" desteğini kazandı!

Deniz, Almanya'daki Max Planck Evrimsel Antropoloji Enstitüsü'nde (MPI-EVA) sediman DNA'sı (sedaDNA) üzerine çalışmalar yürütecek. 🇩🇪🧬

@MPI_EVA_Leipzig

🌍 Dr. Ezgi Altınışık, ERC Starting Grant başvurusunda aldığı yüksek puan üzerine "TÜBİTAK 2247-B ERC Güçlendirme Desteği"ni kazandı!
Çalışma, Roma Dönemi Anadolusu’nun gen havuzunu ve dönemin sosyal organizasyonunu inceleyecek ve ERC başvurusunu yeni verilerle güçlendirecek.🏛️🧬

🏛️ Dr. Kıvılcım Başak Vural, TÜBİTAK 1001 programı kapsamında desteklenmeye hak kazandı!
Projesiyle Anadolu’da son 15.000 yıl içinde gerçekleşmiş üç büyük sosyo-kültürel sürecin (Neolitik Dönüşüm, Şehirleşme ve Orta Asya göçleri) demografik dinamikleri araştıracak. 🦴🧬

🧬 Dr. Mustafa Özkan, TÜBİTAK 2219 desteği ile İsveç Uppsala Üniversitesi’ne gidiyor! 🇸🇪

Proje kapsamında Anadolu yaban koyununun referans genomunu çıkaracak ve bu veriyi pangenoma entegre edecek. Evrimsel genomik için heyecan verici bir adım! 🐏💻

Araştırma grubumuzdan harika haberler var! 🎉 Son aylarda projeleriyle önemli destekler alan Mustafa Özkan, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Ezgi Altınışık ve Duygu Deniz Kazancı'yı kutluyoruz! 👏
Detaylar zincirin devamında 👇
@Hacettepe1967 @METU_ODTU #Antropoloji #AntikDNA #aDNA #TÜBİTAK

Çalışmanın ayrıntıları aşağıda 👇

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Top 10 Discoveries of 2025 - A Feminine Touch - Archaeology Magazine - January/February 2026 Çatalhöyük, Turkey

Çatalhöyük hakkındaki arkeogenetik çalışmamızın Archaeology Magazine tarafından yılın en önemli 10 keşiflerinden biri olarak seçilmiş olması bizi çok mutlu etti! 💃🏻👩🏻‍🔬🧪🏺

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Features - Top 10 Discoveries of 2025 - Archaeology Magazine - January/February 2026 ARCHAEOLOGY magazine’s editors reveal the year’s most exciting finds

@archaeologymag.bsky.social has announced their to 10 research findings of 2025! Many congratulations to @compevohumang.bsky.social and all the researchers involved in these studies! archaeology.org/collection/t...

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Top 10 Discoveries of 2025 - A Feminine Touch - Archaeology Magazine - January/February 2026 Çatalhöyük, Turkey

We are delighted to learn that our Çatalhöyük archaeogenetics study published in @science.org was chosen as one of @archaeologymag.bsky.social 's top 10 discoveries of 2025. 💃🏻👩🏻‍🔬 🧪 🏺

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YouTube video by Merve Nur Güler The Code

Labımızın mezunu @meerf.bsky.social, Gene Forum 2025 kapsamında düzenlenen Artur Lind Bursu video yarışmasında Büyük Ödül’ü kazandı! 🍻🥳
Tema: 2035’te Bilimde İnsan ve Yapay Zeka
🎬 Kazanan video “The Code”u izleyin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKn...

YouTube video by Merve Nur Güler The Code

🏺🧪 Our alumni @meerf.bsky.social has won the Grand Prize in the Artur Lind Scholarship video competition at Gene Forum 2025!
🎥 Theme: Human and Artificial Intelligence in Science in 2035
Watch the award-winning video The Code: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKn...

I will be presenting my poster: “The Population Genetic History of the Hittite Capital Hattusa” at #ESEB2025

📍Poster #273

If you’re around, please come by, ask questions or have a chat, and let’s talk ancient DNA & population genetics!

Amazing #eseb2025 talk!

At #ESEB2025, Exploring Female Lineages & Mortuary Practices in Neolithic Çatalhöyük with insights from genomic & archaeological data.

Don't miss Eren Yüncü’s presentation at 02:00 p.m.!

Siz yine de okumak isterseniz, ayrıntılar burada 👩🏻‍💻🤨🤓
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YouTube video by Hacettepe Üniversitesi Çatalhöyük Animasyonu

💀+🧬+🤖 = 🎬🔥
Makalemiz artık sadece okunmuyor, izleniyor! Kurgu değil, gerçek bilim 😍😎
Teşekkürler Hacettepe ❤️
@science.org
👇 Yapay zeka animasyonumuza acil bakın:
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DeepKin: Predicting Relatedness From Low‐Coverage Genomes and Palaeogenomes With Convolutional Neural Networks DeepKin is a novel tool designed to predict relatedness from genomic data using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional methods for estimating relatedness often struggle when genomic data i...

Our genetic kinship estimation tool using deep learning is just out:
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Our models trained on simulated data work effectively on real data from diverse backgrounds and often better than available tools. Congratulations @meerf.bsky.social and team!

Check this out 👇
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Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes - Nature Using sequencing and haplotype-resolved assembly of 65 diverse human genomes, complex regions including the major histocompatibility complex and centromeres are analysed.

2) They assembled genomes of 65 individuals to near completion—including centromeres and the MHC—enabling accurate detection of 26,115 structural variants per genome for improved disease studies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Structural variation in 1,019 diverse humans based on long-read sequencing - Nature Intermediate-coverage long-read sequencing in 1,019 diverse humans from the 1000 Genomes Project, representing 26 populations, enables the generation of comprehensive population-scale structural varia...

1) They sequenced 1,019 genomes from the 1kGP cohort with long reads. Using linear and graph-based analyses, we uncovered SVs down to low allele frequencies—advancing beyond short-read population surveys. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Big news! Our group member @asoylev.bsky.social co-authored two groundbreaking papers in @nature.com! 🧬
Here’s what they achieved 👇