The FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2026!

Topics will encompass all corners of ancient DNA research, from humans to wildlife and sediments🧬🦣💀🦠

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Check the website icp2026.palaeogenomics.org and follow us for updates!

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Quand la laine a favorisé l’émergence d’une maladie bactérienne Contrairement aux autres borrélioses, Borrelia recurrentis se transmet par les poux et non les tiques. Une nouvelle étude montre que cette transition s’est produit il y a 5000 ans au Néolithique, quan...

Had the opportunity to chat about @poojaswali.bsky.social's study on louse-borne relapsing fever on the French radio today 🧬🦠
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
@franceculture.fr @radiofrance.fr @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk

26.05.2025 12:12 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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: 🧵⬇️

22.05.2025 18:21 — 👍 109    🔁 40    💬 5    📌 7

A photo of Alexandre Gilardet presenting his research during the Licentiate defense.

A photo of Chenyu Jin presenting her research during the half-time PhD seminar.

Congrats to our students @alexgilardet.bsky.social and Chenyu Jin for their successful Licentiate defense and half-time PhD seminar! 🎉

14.02.2025 12:33 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks to Edana Lord, @gog1693.bsky.social @palaeopete.bsky.social @lovedalen.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social, Mathilde le Moullec, @museumevogen.bsky.social, Georgios Xenikoudakis, Matthew Wooller, Timothy Rowe, Michail Anisimov, @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @cpgsthlm.bsky.social

06.02.2025 15:41 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We also formally demonstrated that the addition of Tween in the elution buffer resulted in more complex libraries.

06.02.2025 15:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It represents an alternative to costly robotisation and can generate 96 extracts within a few hours of lab work!

06.02.2025 15:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We used a 96-column plate for downscaled aDNA extractions, compared it to routine single columns and retrieved similar screening metrics.

06.02.2025 15:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A High‐Throughput Ancient DNA Extraction Method for Large‐Scale Sample Screening Large-scale DNA screening of palaeontological and archaeological collections remains a limiting and costly factor for ancient DNA studies. Several DNA extraction protocols are routinely used in ancie...

A high-throughput aDNA extraction method for large-scale sample screening 🦣🦬🧬
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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