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Iseult @iseultjackson.bsky.social · 16d

🦠💀🦠 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...

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...

www.biorxiv.org

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Pooja Swali @poojaswali.bsky.social · 16d

Almost 10 years after my masters here, I finally get a chance to talk at @lshtm.bsky.social for CEE's autumn symposium 🍁🧬🦠

Aida Andres @aidaandres.bsky.social · 19d

Pooja Swali @poojaswali.bsky.social presenting her very interesting work on ancient pathogens. @ugiatucl.bsky.social

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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · 21d

I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st)

The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations).

Please share!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University

Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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Helen Fewlass @helenfewlass.bsky.social · Sep 5

Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe

Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉

#HorizonEurope #ERCStG

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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J. Camilo Chacón-Duque @jcchacond.bsky.social · Sep 3

Check out our latest paper, a huge effort led by @benjaminguinet.bsky.social and @tvdvalk.bsky.social 🦣🔍🦠

Paper: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Aug 29

Centre for Ecology & Evolution autumn symposium & mixer www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Centre for Ecology & Evolution autumn symposium & mixer | LSHTM

The CEE Autumn Symposium & Mixer brings together London's vibrant ecology and evolution research community. This is an excellent opportunity to hear cutting-edge research presentations, mainly by PhD

www.lshtm.ac.uk

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Pooja Swali @poojaswali.bsky.social · Sep 1

Come join us!! A very exciting project with a wonderful team!! 🤩🧬

Lucy van Dorp @lucyvandorp.bsky.social · Sep 1

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Lucy van Dorp @lucyvandorp.bsky.social · Sep 1

If you like generating genomic data from unusual medical samples, past and contemporary epidemiology and advancing methods in phylo/population genetics please get in touch.

Group website: www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpvan/

Closing date Sept 25th 2025.

#aDNA #microbialgenomics #ISBA #popgen #UCL

New preprint on the early evolution of BA.2.86

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Lucy van Dorp @lucyvandorp.bsky.social · Sep 1

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Sebastien Calvignac-Spencer @scs22.bsky.social · Jul 2

We were part of another viral aRNA study that was just published. In this work spearheaded by Christian Urban in the lab of Verena Schuenemann, a new protocol was assessed (good for short fragments) and a seventh 1918 flu genome was completely sequenced

bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

An ancient influenza genome from Switzerland allows deeper insights into host adaptation during the 1918 flu pandemic in Europe - BMC Biology

Background From 1918 to 1920, the largest influenza A virus (IAV) pandemic known to date spread globally causing between 20 to 100 million deaths. Historical records have captured critical aspects of ...

bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · Aug 1

📣 Work with us! 📣

The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology.

📅 Closing date: 15 September
👉 More info and how to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology (Human and Animal Relations in Prehistory)

The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology, to start on 1 January 2026 or as soon thereafter as possible. Subject to

www.cam.ac.uk

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Nikolay Oskolkov @oskolkov.bsky.social · Jul 18

I am starting a computational lab at LIOS, Riga, Latvia, and going to recruit a few people. Please DM if you are interested in a postdoc or PhD position in my Metabolic Research Group within the TARGETWISE project. I can highly recommend Riga, it is a beautiful city with very good living conditions.

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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · Jul 17

New review paper led by @nancybird1.bsky.social which unpacks the complexities of genetic ancestry and examines what genetic data can and cannot tell us 🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thanks to @gregerlarson.bsky.social for a fabulous talk 'Hunting the Earliest Dogs' which rounded up this academic year's UGI seminar series. It was great to have Greger visit us @ucl.ac.uk.

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Jul 9

A big advance today in the infectious disease history of Eurasia: Sikora et al., "The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia," www.nature.com/articles/s41.... #histmed #aDNA 🧪🗃️

The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia - Nature

Screening shotgun-sequencing data from ancient humans covering 37,000 years of Eurasian history uncovers the widespread presence of ancient bacterial, viral and parasite DNA and zoonotic pathogens coi...

www.nature.com

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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · Jul 9

✨🧬 Sharing our UCL Genetics Institute starter pack of researchers, friends and alumni past and present 🧬 ✨

#UGISKY
(DM us to be added)

go.bsky.app/Gw1NqRa

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Nancy Bird @nancybird1.bsky.social · Jul 1

Had a chance to present my research on Cameroonian genetic history last Thursday at the conference 'From Genes to Nationhood' in Yaoundé, organised with the Cameroonian ministry for Youth Affairs and Civil Education!

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Pooja Swali @poojaswali.bsky.social · Jun 14

Thank you again for coming and the wonderful talk!!

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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · Jun 12

We welcomed @kguschan.bsky.social to @ucl.ac.uk for our UGI Seminar Series. A fantastic talk spanning primate population histories, mito-nuclear interactions, temporal microbiomes, and antimicrobial resistance.

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Pooja Swali @poojaswali.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thank you for coming and for the wonderful talk!! Promise technology will be on our side next time you visit

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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · Jun 5

A pleasure to welcome Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social to @ucl.ac.uk for our UCL Genetics Seminar series. Kevin gave a great talk on reconstructing the relationship between animal herding and pathogen evolution using paleogenomic techniques.

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alexgilardet.bsky.social @alexgilardet.bsky.social · May 26

Had the opportunity to chat about @poojaswali.bsky.social's study on louse-borne relapsing fever on the French radio today 🧬🦠
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
@franceculture.fr @radiofrance.fr @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk

Quand la laine a favorisé l’émergence d’une maladie bactérienne

Contrairement aux autres borrélioses, Borrelia recurrentis se transmet par les poux et non les tiques. Une nouvelle étude montre que cette transition s’est produit il y a 5000 ans au Néolithique, quan...

www.radiofrance.fr

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Lucy van Dorp @lucyvandorp.bsky.social · May 23

Our @ucl.ac.uk @crick.ac.uk work, out this week in @science.org, traces a genetic time series of bacterial infections to reveal when and how Borrelia recurrentis jumped from ticks to humans—via our body lice.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ancient Borrelia genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever

Several bacterial pathogens have transitioned from tick-borne to louse-borne transmission, which often involves genome reduction and increasing virulence. However, the timing of such transitions remai...

www.science.org

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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · May 23

New UCL-Crick led paper out this week in @science.org on the evolution of louse-borne relapsing fever led by @poojaswali.bsky.social.

See below for her thread explaining the work and it's relevance to when and how this bacteria has adapted to louse-borne human infection.

tinyurl.com/76vzy4tn

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · May 22

Scientists used to think diseases that jump from animals to people really took off when people started domesticating cattle, sheep and goats 11,000 years ago. A new look at ancient bacterial DNA in @science.org by @poojaswali.bsky.social and colleagues suggests the pivotal moment came much later.

Clothing—not agriculture—helped spread a tick disease 5000 years ago

New study of a pathogen’s Bronze Age spread challenges longstanding links between disease and early agriculture

www.science.org

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