Federico Sánchez Quinto

🦣🧬🦣🤯💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below:

Mammoth RNA sequenced for the first time, marking a giant leap toward understanding prehistoric life Scientists successfully sequence the RNA from woolly mammoths found in Siberia that lived up between 10,000 thousand and 50,000 years ago.

Honored to connect w/ @marmole6.bsky.social @zoepochon.bsky.social @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social @lovedalen.bsky.social about sequencing RNA in woolly mammoths for the 1st time! Big thank you to all involved & the editors @livescience.com! 🦣🦣🦣🦣🦣 #FossilFriday

www.livescience.com/animals/mamm...

🔊New perspective piece out @genomebiolevol.bsky.social.

"The Genomic Kaleidoscope: On the Hidden Dimensions of Within-Species Genomic Diversity" 💡🌀🌈
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Co-led with @mbrasovives.bsky.social and @diegoharta.bsky.social

Check out our thread! 🧵👇 (1/n)

Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

Become our colleague! - 2yr Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past (UU) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social 🧪

Great place to work at (ok, I am biased), integration with archaeologists and linguists + pretty flexible research topic

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

¿Hiciste tu doctorado en México? ¿Quieres hacer un postdoc en California? ¿Te interesa la genética evolutiva? ¡Checa esta beca y mándame un mensaje! alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/research-and...

Deeply honored and grateful to have received the Reconocimiento Distinción Universidad Nacional para Jóvenes Académicos (RDUNJA) for research in the Natural Sciences 2025. This prestigious distinction is awarded to young investigators by UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico. #Genomics

AaRCTikTalks, Friday 31st October 2025 at 3pm GMT, 4pm CET, 8am UTC-6. Federico Sánchez Quinto: Mammoth paleogenomic data from Mexico reveasl a complex arrival of the Columbian mammoth to the Americas. Marcela Sandoval Velasco: Agave Palaeogenomics: studying the Human-Agave relationship through time in Mesoamerica.

Just a reminder that we have our monthly seminar, the #AaRCTikTalks, this Friday at 4pm CET. Come and hear 2 amazing talks on this special edition where we focus on the amazing work being done by our peers in Mexico. #aDNA 🧪🧬🏺

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Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu

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Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics!

June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm.

Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)!

Submit abstracts here 👉
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/

Deadline: Nov 30th

Join us on 31st October to celebrate Día de los Muertos with some #ancientDNA from Mexico! Two very exciting talks on 🦣 and 🪴, by Federico Sánchez-Quinto and Marcela Sandoval-Velasco of LIIGH UNAM.

Note the later 3pm London time!

#aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

Great news article by @mostlymammoths.bsky.social discussing our latest finds on Mexican mammoths 🦣🧬
@fsanchezquinto.bsky.social

Ancient DNA from Mexico's mammoths reveals unexpected — and unexplained — genetic mysteries Columbian mammoths in Mexico are genetically different from those in the U.S. and Canada, surprise DNA study reveals.

Thank you, @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social Ángeles Tavares-Guzmán, Eduardo Arrieta-Donato, @lovedalen.bsky.social for speaking w/me about the unique DNA in #Mexican Columbian mammoths! 🦣 🦣🦣🦣🦣 🧬

Thank you, Hannah Osborne @livescience.com!

www.livescience.com/animals/exti...

@official-smbe.bsky.social is coming to Copenhagen next year! 🇩🇰 And we’re looking for your symposium ideas to help us shape the content of this meeting.
Submit your proposal now (link 👇). The deadline is October 15th. #SMBE2026

We can't wait to be part of organising the #SMBE2026 conference in Copenhagen next summer 🤩

Hope to see you there 🤗 and please help shape the scientific content by submitting symposia proposals and share with your network 💡

Symposia - SMBE 2026 - Copenhagen Denmark SMBE 2026 Symposia Check deadlines and important dates below.  Days Hours Minutes Seconds Conference Symposia We are now accepting proposals for symposium for the 2026 Annual meeting taking place in C...

🚨 The #SMBE2026 website is live! 🚨
The call for symposia is now open ➡️ smbe2026.org/symposia/
📅 Opens: Sept 1, 2025
📅 Closes: Oct 15, 2025
📢 Results: Nov 3, 2025
We can’t wait to welcome you to beautiful #Copenhagen 🌍✨
@official-smbe.bsky.social
#evolution #science

El primer estudio de ADN de mamuts descubiertos en Santa Lucía revela que un linaje desconocido habitó la cuenca de México La investigación, una colaboración entre el INAH y la UNAM, es la primera en recuperar ADN antiguo de mamuts que habitaron latitudes tropicales

Cobertura mediática por parte del @elpaismexico.bsky.social
sobre nuestro estudio reciente publicado en Science, sobre la historia evolutiva de los mamut excavados de Sta Lucia inferida a partir de sus genomas mitocondriales 👇. @liigh-unam.bsky.social #INAH
shorturl.at/AKpAx

Thanks @jacquelyngill.bsky.social, glad you liked it!

Great podcast by @rpocisv.bsky.social and colleagues from Science @science.org about our recent publication about recovery mitogenomes from Basin of Mexico Columbian mammoths. Its a not miss! 👇

Mammoth DNA from Mexico reveals a divergent lineage Long before the construction of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport, which lies northeast of Mexico City, the area was home to the former Lake Xaltocan and inhabited by a rich ecosystem of prehis...

phys.org/news/2025-08...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same mother having distinct genomes and morphologies.

Nature research paper: One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants

go.nature.com/45PYV6d

Please circulate among interested and motivated students!

I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue.

Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.

kevingdaly.github.io

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

This paper is wild. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Clonal males may thus be regarded as organelles at the superorganism level". Whatever mitochondrial challenges you may face, at least none of your organelles is an ENTIRE INSECT.

Congratulations Kevin, looking forward at the research that will come from your lab. What is the first craziest thing we heard today? 😉

The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth!

New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell!

Paper:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

SimHumanity: Using SLiM 5.0 to run whole-genome simulations of human evolution The reconstruction of human evolutionary history has undergone repeated advances, each made possible by methodological innovations. In recent decades, genetic and genomic data played a central role in...

Announcing SimHumanity, a baseline SLiM 5.0 model of the full human genome, replete with demographic history, autosomes, X/Y, and mtDNA. A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations. We’d love your feedback! #SLiM #evolution #genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mammoths in Mexico? Huge bone trove reveals giant beasts thrived in warmth, too Fossils found while building airport contain first mammoth DNA from tropical location

Mammoths in Mexico! A fascinating read by @rpocisv.bsky.social @science.org on the discovery and analysis of a massive Pleistocene fossil trove beneath an airport in Mexico City. 🧬 🦣 🇲🇽 www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Great postdoc opportunity!

Come and work with us in beautiful Stockholm ⬇️⬇️⬇️

🚨JOB ALERT!🚨

Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics!

Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬

Apply here:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Thanks for the PR Vicent, I hope you like our study