Jolijn Erven

Wanna learn how to explore your genomic data to know how related your samples and populations are to each other? Come and join us and @jolijnerven.bsky.social on our next #AaRCademy workshop! April 16h at 14:00 CET!

Old goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland The domestic goat likely first arrived to the island of Ireland as part of the introduction of agriculture approximately 5900 years ago, and remains a…

Our paper "Old goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland", is now online at the Journal of Archaeological Science! #aDNA

The old Irish goat is a living link to Ireland’s Bronze Age Study shows distinct breed has genetic links to goats that lived in Ireland 3,000 years ago

Our work on ancient Irish goat was covered in the Irish Times.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

It's that time again... AaRCTikTalk this Friday!! Anne Runge will talk about microbial/pathogen DNA from prehistoric faunal remains🦠🦴🧬, & Anna Nagel will explore multispecies time calibrations! 🧬🕰️ Hurray! Don't miss it! 🕺 @aarc-community.bsky.social

Working with animal #aDNA? 🧬 Apply to our #SMBE2026 symposium by February 3rd and join us in Copenhagen to hear, share, and discuss the latest research and methodological advances in animal #palaeogenomics 🦎🐕🐷🐋🐝🐂🦤🦣🐟🪲🦌🐈

@aarc-community.bsky.social

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Genetic analysis of 7,000 year old preserved goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol, Spain). Advances in ancient DNA research have expanded the range of materials from which genetic information can be recovered, enabling the analysis of atypical materials. These often preserve both host and e...

Another #aDNA preprint! We recovered DNA from 7,000 year old (!) goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos - and see a genetic link with Bermeya goats today!

Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.

Imputation of ancient canid genomes reveals inbreeding history over the past 10,000 years | PNAS The multi-millennia-long history between dogs and humans has placed them at the forefront of archaeological and genomic research. Despite ongoing e...

Our paper in the PNAS Special Feature on 🐕 is out!
We demonstrated the accuracy of imputing ancient canid genomes, looked at inbreeding levels over the past 10,000 years and found genomic regions resistant to ROH which were enriched for immunity and chemosensory genes.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'll be presenting at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social at the School of Biological Sciences, 2nd December, 1pm - please come along to hear about #aDNA, domestication, and disease!

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/...

Check out our paper, we now included a comparison between glimse1 and glimpse2!

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Chimeric Reference Panels for Genomic Imputation Abstract. Despite transformative advances in genomic technologies, missing data remains a fundamental constraint that limits the full potential of genomic

Excited to share our new paper in
@GeneticsGSA
! We developed "Retriever," a novel method that enables high-quality genotype imputation in non-model organisms. 🧬 Congratulations to Charles on his first PhD paper!

Paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene...

A thread 🧵👇

Evolutionary history and recurrent host adaptation in ancient Salmonella enterica Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica is an extremely diverse bacterial pathogen causing frequent infections and foodborne disease among human populations. More than 1500 different bacterial strains (se...

🦠💀🦠 Happy to share our (with @gunnar-u-neumann.bsky.social) new preprint on ancient Salmonella enterica genomes! We analysed 53 new genomes along with published ancient and modern datasets to learn about lineage replacements and host adaptation in prehistory: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Water Buffalo Population Genomics The Department of Biology, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen is offering a post doc position to work on population genomic analyses in water buffal

🚀 We’re hiring a #Postdoc!
🔬 Join our group in Copenhagen to study Water Buffalo 🐃 #Population #Genomics
Highly motivated & enthusiastic candidates are welcome!

👉 **Apply:** candidate.hr-manager...

⏰Deadline Oct 15th 2025
#WaterBuffalo #Conservation #EvolutionaryBiology

Interested in goats 🐐? Read our pre-print on ancient Irish goats and their connection to the Old Irish goat breed

Just look at this dashing individual, courtesy of the Old Irish Goat society

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution!

Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

My student Louis L'Hôte presenting his work on ancient sheeppox virus at #isba11 #aDNA

Cell Press: STAR Protocols STAR Protocols is an open access, peer-reviewed journal from Cell Press. We offer structured, transparent, accessible, and repeatable step-by-step experimental and computational protocols from all are...

Interested in measuring genetic load? We have a new paper out providing a modified version of GERP which is more user friendly in wildlife species and with scripts to automate making input files and pulling out derived alleles in your species #consgen #popgen star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4202

Postdoctoral Position in Wildlife Palaeogenomics!

Come join us in beautiful Stockholm!

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

Inferring domestic goat demographic history through ancient genome imputation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.18.649576v1

Our results demonstrate that genotype imputation is a valuable tool for maximizing information from low-coverage goat palaeogenomes.

This approach offers new opportunities to investigate the genetic impacts of early domestication and herd dispersal—directions we will be continuing to explore!

Identity-by-descent (IBD) patterns mirrored our ROH findings: Goats from early herding sites like Ganj Dareh exhibited less relatedness compared to goats from later in the dispersal process.

#Mobility #Domestication​

📊 Insights into early goat domestication:
Analyzing 36 previously published ancient goat genomes, we observed that runs-of-homozygosity (ROH) increased with distance from the Zagros Mountains during the Neolithic, suggesting effects from the initial dispersal of managed herds.

#Neolithic #Goats​

By imputing ancient downsampled genomes utilizing the VarGoats dataset (www.goatgenome.org/vargoats.html), we achieved high concordance at 0.5× coverage for common variants.

Inferring domestic goat demographic history through ancient genome imputation Goats were among the earliest managed animals, making them a natural model to explore the genetic consequences of domestication. However, a challenge in ancient genomic analysis is the relatively low ...

🐐 New preprint out with @gingerhowley.bsky.social The VarGoats Consortium and many others!
We explore how genotype imputation can enhance low-coverage ancient goat/Capra🐐 genomes, shedding light on early domestication and herd management.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#aDNA #Domestication​

Ancient Biomolecules Community Survey SPAAM, HAAM, LAARD, PAASTA, and AaRC are trying to understand if and how they are helping researchers deal with the challenges in their research fields. We aim to use this information to help guide an...

A final request for those involved in the Ancient Biomolecule Communities: If you follow the activities of AaRC, HAAM, PAASTA, SPAAM and LAARD, help us improve our understanding of our communities with this short survey!

#aDNA #palaeoproteomics #biomoleculararchaeology #ZooMS #ancientDNA

@jolijnerven.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social unlocks the origins of domesticated pigs how they related to wild boar and people in the Dutch wetlands 6000 years ago An nwo project @unigroningen.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
W implications for #morethanhuman life

We found that during the Neolithic, pig management in Europe was highly variable. By integrating paleogenomics and zooarchaeology, we uncovered a commensal relationship between humans, pigs and wild boar at the Early Neolithic settlement of Swifterbant

Archaeogenomic insights into commensalism and regional variation in pig management in Neolithic northwest Europe | PNAS The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...

Interested in human-pig-boar interactions? Read our new paper on human-pig-boar relationships in Neolithic Europe 🐷🐗🧬.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...