Mariam Omar Gómez
momargo.bsky.social
Mariam Omar Gómez
@momargo.bsky.social
🧬 PhD student @HumanEvolutionUU
Reposted by Mariam Omar Gómez
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!

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May 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Reposted by Mariam Omar Gómez
We have a new preprint! Mapping and analyzing nearly 5,000 full mitogenomes across Africa.
First major update on mtDNA distribution since Salas et al. 2002, "The making of the African mtDNA landscape." Congrats to Imke Lankheet and thanks to all collaborators!

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Revisiting the African mtDNA Landscape: A Continental Update from Complete Mitochondrial Genomes
Africa harbors the richest diversity of mitochondrial DNA lineages, reflecting its central role in human evolutionary history. Early studies of mtDNA variation provided the first genetic evidence for ...
www.biorxiv.org
April 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM