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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 7d

#CpgSthlm PhD student @sam-siwatlaali.bsky.social is coauthor on a new Scientific Data paper:

“Decoding the Peruvian Amazon with in situ DNA barcoding of vertebrate and plant taxa”

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Samantha López Clinton (she/her) @sam-siwatlaali.bsky.social · 7d

So excited to share a new paper I’m coauthor on which has just come out in Scientific Data: “Decoding the Peruvian Amazon with in situ DNA barcoding of vertebrate and plant taxa”
👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Decoding the Peruvian Amazon with in situ DNA barcoding of vertebrate and plant taxa - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Decoding the Peruvian Amazon with in situ DNA barcoding of vertebrate and plant taxa

www.nature.com

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 12d

🧬🧬🧬 🦣❤️🦣 🧬🧬🧬

New #CpgSthlm paper led by @maridehasque.bsky.social published in Biology Letters!

Genomic and morphological analysis reveals long-term mammoth hybridization in British Columbia, Canada
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 18d

Interested in giving a talk at the Plant and Animal Genome conference (PAG 33) in San Diego?

Together with several colleagues, we are arranging 5 interconnected sessions.

To submit an abstract, please fill out this Google Form before Oct 12th, 2025:
forms.gle/q7j275Di6umY...

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Samantha López Clinton (she/her) @sam-siwatlaali.bsky.social · 19d

Our new study is out!

We analysed 40 Malaise trap samples collected across Sweden by the Insect Biome Atlas project using #metabarcoding and #metagenomics

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@cpgsthlm.bsky.social @tvdvalk.bsky.social

Small Bugs, Big Data: Metagenomics for Arthropod Biodiversity Monitoring

We used metagenomic sequencing of 40 bulk arthropod samples collected across Sweden to classify taxa and compare results with metabarcoding from the same samples. While metabarcoding was more sensiti...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 23d

One week left to apply for our postdoc position on Deep-Time Small Rodent Palaeogenomics!

This is a 2-year full-time position that includes Swedish employment benefits, as well as funding for research expenses and work-related travel.

More info and application link:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Sep 3

Check out @benjaminguinet.bsky.social's fantastic thread explaining how he recovered the oldest host-associated microbial genome! 🦠🦣🧬

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

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Benjamin Guinet @benjaminguinet.bsky.social · Sep 3

🧵 Exciting news from our lab #CpgSthlm! 🥳

Thousands of years ago, mammoths roamed, and so did their fascinating microbial companions. Our latest study, published in 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘭, brings them to light 🦣🦠🧬

Read the full paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Mammoth tusk emerging from the permafrost on Wrangel Island (Siberia) in 2017 (photo by Love Dalén)

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Sep 2

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...

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨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/...

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · Aug 28

What utter horror is this?

John Greally @greally.bsky.social · Aug 28

And this beauty.

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Aug 13

New paper out from @johannanvs.bsky.social, @lovedalen.bsky.social and others from #CpgSthlm, using historical DNA to investigate temporal genomic change in the Scandinavian arctic fox!

Paper:
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Jul 1

New paper from "Team Rodents" at CPG, demonstrating a very recent origin of the Norwegian lemming!

Great work by @edanalord.bsky.social, @indianadiez.bsky.social and others!

Edana Lord @edanalord.bsky.social · Jun 30

I'm super excited to share our new paper on Norwegian lemming genomics just published in @pnas.org!! Read the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
Summary ⬇️

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Jun 4

Postdoctoral Position in Wildlife Palaeogenomics!

Come join us in beautiful Stockholm!

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

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Jun 3

What an incredible time we had last week at the Nobel Symposium "Palaeogenomics: Charting the Future of Ancient DNA" 💀🦣🦠🧬🧪

Connecting with so many leading international researchers in #ancientDNA at beautiful Villa Aske and Stockholm was inspiring ✨🤩

Thank you to all participants!

Group photo of all participants of the symposium.

Beth Shapiro in her public lecture on "How to clone a mammoth" at Aula Magna, Stockholm University.

The participants watch one of the talks during the symposium.

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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · May 30

”You should be lucky to be in Stockholm where @cpgsthlm.bsky.social has sequenced over 1 million year old DNA”
Ludovic Orlando from University of Toulouse lecturing in Aula Magna on "The Taming of the Horse" about how prehistoric DNA has changed our understanding of horse domestication. #AncientDNA

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Apr 30

NOBEL SYMPOSIA

We are delighted to announce two exciting public talks on Ancient DNA at Aula Magna (Stockholm University) on May 30th, 10:00-12:30h.

🦣⬅️ ”Can we bring back the woolly mammoth?” by Beth Shapiro.

🐎✋”The taming of the horse” by Ludovic Orlando.

Free entrance. All welcome!

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · May 27

We're thrilled to announce that the FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26 2026!

Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on!

Save the dates!

Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news

👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · May 19

New review paper in TREE out!

The Progressive Evolution of Cold-Adapted Species

By John Stewart, @lovedalen.bsky.social, @palaeopete.bsky.social and others

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Apr 30

These talks are the public part of the Nobel Symposium "Palaeogenomics: charting the future of ancient DNA", which will join leading experts in the field of palaeogenomics and early career researchers to share insights on the current state of ancient DNA research and its future trajectories.

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Apr 30

NOBEL SYMPOSIA

We are delighted to announce two exciting public talks on Ancient DNA at Aula Magna (Stockholm University) on May 30th, 10:00-12:30h.

🦣⬅️ ”Can we bring back the woolly mammoth?” by Beth Shapiro.

🐎✋”The taming of the horse” by Ludovic Orlando.

Free entrance. All welcome!

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · Apr 14

Research led by @jcchacond.bsky.social (here seen working with mammoth samples in the lab) @cpgsthlm.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @lovedalen.bsky.social

📷 Marianne Dehasque

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Apr 9

Finally, in addition to recovering these million-year-old mitogenomes, we also present an improved DNA-based framework 🧬📈 for dating ancient samples beyond the limit of radiocarbon dating, which can facilitate more accurate reconstructions of species’ evolutionary histories!

A mammoth tusk sticking out of the sediment.

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Apr 9

By analysing these very old mitogenomes together with >200 previously published ones, we were able to detect long-lost genetic diversity in the mammoth lineage during the last million years and to show how this loss coincides with past demographic and climatic changes.

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Apr 9

We recovered 34 new mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) from Siberian and North American mammoth specimens.

Of them, 11 date back to the Early and Middle Pleistocene geological periods, spanning from ~1.3 million to ~125 thousand years ago.

A map with the mammoth sample locations.

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Apr 9

New paper 🧵

A team co-led by #cpgsthlm 's researcher @jcchacond.bsky.social has analysed DNA from a large number of mammoths across a million-year timescale 🦣🧬

The findings include the discovery and analysis of the oldest known woolly #mammoth in North America!

👉 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Pictures of a woolly mammoth molar dated to 216kya. The earliest in North America.

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