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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 6d

So excited to learn about the work Henny Piezonka is doing on reindeer!

Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 12d

We're so happy to share our newest ancient DNA findings in Mongolia on the Slab Grave expansion and its consequences for diverse Bronze Age pastoralists! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 23d

We're organizing a new CARTA symposium this November 7 on "Ancient DNA: New Revelations"! We have an amazing lineup of speakers who will showcase the biggest discoveries in ancient DNA over the past 5 years - and offer a sneak peek of what's next. Mark your calendars and don't miss it!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Sep 7

Having the best time at the Stanford Fermented Food Conference! From kimchi to koji to sauerkraut, this was the tastiest conference I’ve ever attended! A big thank you to the Sonnenburg lab for organizing, and it was so great to see Rob Dunn and Rachel Dutton again!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Aug 29

And that’s a wrap! Congratulations to the entire ISBA community for a successful ISBA11!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Aug 28

Oh boy - we opened this year’s ISBA meetings in a Roman amphitheater!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Warinner Group and collaborators having fun at ISBA11 in Torino, Italy!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Aug 12

We have a new article out in Cell! Learn more about plague in prehistoric livestock: "Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · Aug 11

Ancient Yersinia pestis genome discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth sheds new light on a mysterious infectious disease that plagued prehistoric Eurasia. New research by @keyfm.bsky.social and @i-light-maka.bsky.social now published in @cellpress.bsky.social: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage

A Yersinia pestis genome from a Bronze Age domesticated sheep provides insight into the host range, evolution, and possible transmission scenarios of an ancient lineage of the plague-causing bacteria,...

www.cell.com

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Aug 9

New article in the Harvard Gazette about how we’re persevering despite funding cuts

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'll be presenting our research on ancient food fermentations at the upcoming Stanford Fermented Food Conference on September 4-5, 2025. Join us to learn more about our recent findings on Roman wine and ancient Himalayan beer!

There will be yeast and LAB genomes! med.stanford.edu/nutrition/ev...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Aug 6

Warinner lab undergraduate researcher Juliet Garon recently presented her summer research that builds foundational knowledge for the use of protein mass spectrometry to understand human respiratory diseases and immune response before the antibiotic era. Congratulations Juliet!

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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · Aug 6

Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Aug 4

Postdoc James Fellows Yates has won the Dawn Field Award for Outstanding Contributions to Genomic Standards at this year’s Genomics Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Cambridge, UK! Congratulations, James! We couldn’t be more proud!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Aug 4

Want to learn more about the cutting edge of ancient microbial metagenomics and the evolutionary history of Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria? Join us this Thursday for I-Ting’s PhD defense on “Microbial evolution through the lens of metagenomics and paleogenomics”!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Jun 25

It's not every day you get to see the summer solstice sunset at a 7,000-year-old woodhenge! Yay for the Sonnenobservatorium in Goseck!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Jun 25

Just finished our summer retreat for the Paleobiotechnology research group at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology HKI. We had so much fun charting the future of ancient microbial genomes with the aim of developing better antimicrobial therapies for the future.

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our official photo from the Nobel Symposium - what a blast! It was so incredible to learn about all the amazing paleogenomics research happening right now!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Jun 25

It was so nice spending time with my colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology at our annual retreat at Ringberg Castle! What a treat!

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Jun 20

A great news article in Science this week by Taylor Brown on the devastating effects of funding cuts by DOGE and the Trump Administration on American archaeology.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Funding cuts to U.S. archaeology could imperil field’s future

A Science analysis of canceled and curtailed federal grants reveals hits to research, collections, and training

www.science.org

Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · Jun 19

Dental calculus is such a treasure trove!

www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Dragon Man’ skull belongs to mysterious human relative

At long last, scientists have a nearly complete cranium from hominins known as Denisovans

www.science.org

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · May 31

Grateful that the Max Planck Society is stepping up to support talented researchers whose careers have been derailed in the US

www.reuters.com/world/us/max...