A remarkable day at IMBB! 🧬

The 2026 Kafatos Lecture & a symposium on ancient biomolecules, with talks by Skourtanioti, Somel, Skoglund & Douka, capped by Nobel Laureate Svante Pääbo on Neanderthals, Denisovans and what ancient DNA reveals about us.
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Our review paper is now published in Quaternary Science Advances! 🎉

We explore the population history of East Eurasia and the Americas, drawing on recent findings from #ancientDNA research.

Hope you enjoy reading it!

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

🧬 ONE DAY TO GO!

Tomorrow in Heraklion: exploring ancient DNA, human evolution & health.

🔬 IMBB International Symposium | 15:00
🎙️ Kafatos Lecture 2026 with Svante Pääbo | 19:00

📍 FORTH, Heraklion
✨ The Kafatos Lecture is open to the public.

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🧬 A day of ancient biomolecules in Heraklion!

Friday, 9 Oct:
🔬 IMBB Symposium | 15:00–18:00
🎙️ Kafatos Lecture with Svante Pääbo | 19:00–20:10

📍 FORTH, Heraklion
The evening lecture is open to the public.

#AncientDNA #HumanEvolution #Science

Do you think the Italian Greyhound comes from Ancient Egypt? You’re mistaken! Science and history tell a very different story — far more fascinating and far more recent. Let’s open the thread. #dogs #italiangreyhound #history #genetics #book #ancientdna

Do you think the Italian Greyhound comes from Ancient Egypt? You’re mistaken! Science and history tell a very different story — far more fascinating and far more recent. Let’s open the thread. #dogs #italiangreyhound #history #genetics #book #ancientdna

In 1914, in Corropoli (Teramo), archaeologists uncovered a burial unlike any other.
A Neolithic woman and her dog, resting together for 7,000 years.
Not a myth — a bond written in bone.
#dogs #sighthounds #ancientDna #stem #book

In 1914, in Corropoli (Teramo), archaeologists uncovered a burial unlike any other.
A Neolithic woman and her dog, resting together for 7,000 years.
Not a myth — a bond written in bone.
#dogs #sighthounds #ancientDna #stem #booksky

✨🧬🏛️ Last weekend, I had the pleasure of presenting my #MSCA project SyedArcGen at #EuropeanResearchersNight, alongside the fantastic FELIX team! @felix-erc.bsky.social

A great evening of science, curious minds and a wonderful way to celebrate 30 years of #MSCA30! 🎉 #Archaeogenomics #AncientDNA

The oldest genome from the Americas is 12,800 years old, yet models fitted to it and later ones put the first lineage split near 21,000 years ago. What that does to White Sands and Cerutti. #Archaeology #AncientDNA #FirstAmericans www.anthropology.net/p/first-amer...

The Dog as a Global Psychopomp

Across almost every continent, ancient cultures independently linked the #dog to the #afterlife. This is not a local myth — it’s a recurring archetype revealed by #historiography, #iconography, and #zooarchaeology.
#stem #ancientdna #Booksky

The Dog as a Global Psychopomp

Across almost every continent, ancient cultures independently linked the #dog to the #afterlife. This is not a local myth — it’s a recurring archetype revealed by #historiography, #iconography, and #zooarchaeology.
#stem #ancientdna #bookstagram

Five thousand years ago, a dog was laid to rest beside a human at Real Alto, Ecuador. No wounds, no butchering — just a bond strong enough to cross millennia. Today, this ancient companion still watches us from the distant past.
#ancienthistory #ancientdna #dogs_of_world #valdivia #genetics #stem

Five thousand years ago, a dog was laid to rest beside a human at Real Alto, Ecuador. No wounds, no butchering — just a bond strong enough to cross millennia. Today, this ancient companion still watches us from the distant past.
#ancienthistory #ancientdna #dogs_of_world #valdivia #genetics #stem

New preprint out by PhD student @madshartmann.bsky.social 🥳

We present SCAR, the perfect tool for assessing the impact of #ancientDNA damage on analyses

Validation tests show how damage massively impacts heterozygosity estimates 😨

Check it out here
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Before the Inca, dogs were already in South America.The oldest remains? The Valdivia culture in Ecuador: 5,000 years ago. But how did dogs get there, and what did they represent? A thread that rewrites the history of our oldest companion. #dogs #stem #AncientHistory #ancientdna

Before the Inca, dogs were already in South America.The oldest remains? The Valdivia culture in Ecuador: 5,000 years ago. But how did dogs get there, and what did they represent? A thread that rewrites the history of our oldest companion. #dogs #stem #AncientHistory #ancientdna

When we see a #Poodle, we think of a salon / companion #dog. But its story begins in the water.
For centuries, in Europe its ancestors were #dogs used to hunt and retrieve waterfowl.
The Poodle was shaped by mud, marshes, and hard work.
#ancientdna #history #genetics
Images ai generated

When we see a #Poodle, we think of a salon / companion #dog. But its story begins in the water.
For centuries, in Europe its ancestors were #dogs used to hunt and retrieve waterfowl.
The Poodle was shaped by mud, marshes, and hard work.
#ancientdna #history #genetics
Images ai generated

Discover how ancient sheep pox genomes hidden in medieval parchment and Bronze Age teeth reveal the 3,700-year evolutionary history of this livestock virus.

#SheepPox #AncientDNA #MedievalManuscripts #BronzeAge #Genomics #Capripoxvirus