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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 2d

The Animal #aDNA Research Community is looking for new members to its steering committee!

If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe.

@aarc-community.bsky.social

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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 9d

🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴

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

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · 24d

Great work from a great researcher and friend! @bbonucci.bsky.social ❤️

PSU Ancient Biomolecules Research Environment (PSABRE) @psu-adna.bsky.social · 28d

@microarch-lab.bsky.social was lucky enough to host and work with @bbonucci.bsky.social this summer. Checkout her recent publication on retrieving #ancientDNA from concretions from human remains!

Biancamaria Bonucci @bbonucci.bsky.social · Aug 19

🚨Thrilled to share our new paper!!
We were able to retrieve ancient DNA and proteins from layers of sediment attached to the skeletal remains of individuals from a Neolithic site from Southern Italy 💀🧬🦠
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · Sep 9

Congrats to @fravasini.bsky.social, @beniamino77.bsky.social and all the coauthors! 🎉

Bioinformatics Advances @bioinfoadv.bsky.social · Sep 9

🧬 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "DNPcall: A new pipeline for accurate double nucleotide polymorphism calling"

Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf209

Authors include: @eugeniadat.bsky.social

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ISBA - Intl. Soc. for Biomolecular Archaeology @isbarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 29

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · Aug 14

@fravasini.bsky.social @beniamino77.bsky.social @eugeniadat.bsky.social et al. leverage the genome of a new Roman Republic human individual, proposing a novel perspective for Eastern Mediterranean ancestry in the Imperial gene pool.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf149

#genome #evolution #humanevolution

Genetic clustering and ancestry components from newly reported and comparative ancient genomes reveal that the Eastern Mediterranean component was already present in Central Italy ~200 years before the onset of the Roman Empire, thus anticipating the genetic shift observed during the Imperial period.

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · Jul 27

#popgen #PopulationGenomics

Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · Jul 27

Great imputation application on very low coverage data!

Congrats @sabiagini.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

Simone Andrea Biagini 🏳️‍🌈 @sabiagini.bsky.social · Jul 26

🏖️ On vacation, but still excited about my latest paper! 🧬

📌 Sharing it again in case it slipped past your feed 👇

✍️ Looking forward to diving into the details once I’m back!

#AcademicSky #imputation #NIPS #PGS #PopulationGenetics #QUILT

Simone Andrea Biagini 🏳️‍🌈 @sabiagini.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨 Excited to share my new paper! We imputed 32,769 ultra-low coverage genomes from #NIPS 🫃and show how our custom filtering (GDI) impacts ancestry and PGS analyses. Big thanks to the team behind this long and rewarding work! 🧬

📝 Now on @genomeresearch.bsky.social 👇

genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

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Simone Andrea Biagini 🏳️‍🌈 @sabiagini.bsky.social · Jul 27

📝 New research rewrites Roman genetic history: Eastern Mediterranean ancestry appeared 200 years before the Empire, likely via early East to West movements in the Late Republic through Southern Italy or Eastern ties

@eugeniadat.bsky.social 🧬 #AcademicSky 👇

academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

A new perspective on the arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean genetic influx in Central Italy before the onset of the Roman Empire

Abstract. Italian genetic history was profoundly shaped by the Romans. While the Iron Age Central Italian gene pool was comparable to that of other coeval

academic.oup.com

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · Jul 26

📄Read the open-access paper for methods, results & context

Thanks to all collaborators and institutions involved!

#AncientDNA #Archaeogenetics #RomanRepublic #CentralItaly #GenomeHistory #VillaFalgari #Etruria #EasternMediterranean
#aDNA #genpop #populationgenetics

A new perspective on the arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean genetic influx in Central Italy before the onset of the Roman Empire

Abstract. Italian genetic history was profoundly shaped by the Romans. While the Iron Age Central Italian gene pool was comparable to that of other coeval

doi.org

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · Jul 26

🧬 Takeaway:
The transformation of the Central Italian gene pool didn’t start with Empire.
It began with earlier, gradual processes during the Republican phase—some driven from within Italy itself.

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · Jul 26

📊qpAdm models suggest Imperial Roman groups derive ~70–80% of ancestry from individuals like Villa Falgari or other oEMs.
This implies a continuity of Eastern influence from Republic to Empire.

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · Jul 26

⬅️Other Republican samples with similar ancestry (“IA/Republic oEM”) support this pattern.
These are not outliers—they likely represent an early wave of gene flow that shaped the Imperial gene pool.

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · Jul 26

🗝️Key evidence:
▶ PCA and f3-MDS place the individual close to Phoenician and Anatolian BA/IA groups
▶ High Iran_Neolithic / CHG component
▶ Y-DNA haplogroup R1b-Z2105 clusters with Eastern individuals

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · Jul 26

🧿Instead, we show that the genetic shift began ~200 years earlier, during the Late Roman Republic, likely linked to:
– Early Roman influence in the eastern Med
– Internal mobility from Southern Italy (Greek colonies)

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · Jul 26

🔴This challenges the common view that such ancestry entered the region only after the rise of the Roman Empire via large-scale migration to Rome from eastern provinces.

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · Jul 26

🇮🇹Our study centers on a Late Republican individual (341–53 BCE) from Villa Falgari (Tarquinia). aDNA analysis reveals a strong Eastern Mediterranean ancestry—unexpected for this period.

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · Jul 26

🚨 New paper out in Genome Biology and Evolution!
We present new ancient DNA evidence from Central Italy suggesting that Eastern Mediterranean genetic influence predates the Roman Empire.
@beniamino77.bsky.social @fravasini.bsky.social

🧵👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

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A new perspective on the arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean genetic influx in Central Italy before the onset of the Roman Empire

Abstract. Italian genetic history was profoundly shaped by the Romans. While the Iron Age Central Italian gene pool was comparable to that of other coeval

doi.org

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Marco Capodiferro @marcocapo.bsky.social · Jul 24

Turns out imputation of introgressed archaic regions in aDNA works really well — sometimes even better than for the rest of the genome. More on this (and other cool results) in our new preprint 👇 #aDNA #ArchaicIntrogression #imputation
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Archaic ancestry inference in imputed ancient human genomes

When modern humans expanded from Africa into Eurasia, they interbred with archaic hominins such as Neanderthals and Denisovans. This groundbreaking discovery, made in part possible through the genomic...

doi.org

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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎶📣 Registration is now open for our #HAAMmeeting in Turin 🏛️ & online 💻
link: forms.gle/6eR2GPkM2fuE...
📅 Closes 23rd of August
❗Registration to attend via ZOOM is required!

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SPAAM @spaam-community.bsky.social · Jul 18

📢 Registration Now Open for SPAAM7!

Join as for the pre-ISBA hybrid event, to be held on August 26th, 2025,in Turin, Italy 🇮🇹
Check out our preliminary program 🧬🦠

🔗 Register by the 30th of July using this link!!
forms.gle/6jiHhCKFk3Qh...

We look forward to seeing you (In person or via zoom)! 🔥🔥

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Biancamaria Bonucci @bbonucci.bsky.social · Jul 18

Excited about microbes, ancient DNA, methods and meeting other fellow researchers??

Join us in Turin!! 🔥

#aDNA #metagenomics #SPAAM7

SPAAM @spaam-community.bsky.social · Jul 18

📢 Registration Now Open for SPAAM7!

Join as for the pre-ISBA hybrid event, to be held on August 26th, 2025,in Turin, Italy 🇮🇹
Check out our preliminary program 🧬🦠

🔗 Register by the 30th of July using this link!!
forms.gle/6jiHhCKFk3Qh...

We look forward to seeing you (In person or via zoom)! 🔥🔥

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Marco Capodiferro @marcocapo.bsky.social · Jun 27

ArchEvo project has been funded by @researchireland.ie Pathway at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, @tcddublin.bsky.social to study #archaic-introgression in #aDNA💀! Thanks to my mentor Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, collaborators Flora Jay & Léo Planche and the PhD student Martina. We’re ready to start!🚀

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Greger Larson @gregerlarson.bsky.social · Jun 18

Dogs? Dogs dogs dogs.

South American dogs? Ancient South American dogs?

Lots and lots of Ancient South American Dogs!

Huge effort by so many great people!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Eugenia D'Atanasio @eugeniadat.bsky.social · May 30

Congratulazioni!!! 🎊🎊🎊

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