Centre for Palaeogenetics
@CpgSthlm
CPG brings scientists from diverse disciplines and is jointly run by @Stockholm_Uni and @naturhistoriska. Also follow us on @cpgsthlm.bsky.social
▪️ Open postdoc position ▪️ 🔎🧬🐘 I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me on mapping the genomic legacy of the elephant ivory trade in Europe using ancient DNA. Hosted by Lund University 🇸🇪 with @BengtHanssonLU Please RT! Info & apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…
🚨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! RT, save the dates, and check icp2026.palaeogenomics.org for news.

New paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity by Amanda Lindahl (PhD student at #CpgSthlm) and colleagues: Palaeogenomic inference of biodiversity dynamics across Quaternary timescales nature.com/articles/s4435…

🚨Paper Alert!!!🚨 A high-throughput ancient DNA extraction method for large-scale sample screening! Without using robots! Read the new methods paper (Open Access) by our PhD student @alexgilardet onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…
📢 Meet the speakers: Love Dalén 📢 @love_dalen is a Professor of evolutionary genomics at @Stockholm_Uni , and one of the founding members of the Swedish Centre for Palaeogenetics (@CpgSthlm). Read more about him here: eseb2025.com/team/love-dale…
Abstract submission for ISBA11 is now open! We look foward to all your submissions isba11.com/abstract-submi… #Archaeology #Biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA #ISBA11 #ISBAconference #archaeologists
🧬🐭🐴🐻JOB ALERT🐻🐴🐭🧬 We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers in DeepTime Palaeogenomics! All positions are for 2 years (extension possible), & are fully funded both in terms of employment and project costs. Deadline: 2 Dec 2024 Please RT! Apply: su.se/english/about-…




New paper out by Adrian Lister (@NHM_London) and Love Dalén (@CpgSthlm): ”Mammoths, DNA and morphology” palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5…

Last week we celebrated our yearly research retreat at Tovetorp research station. Great days of interesting and inspiring research presentations, Dark Projects, table tennis, sauna, and more! 🤓🔮🏓🧖♀️🦌💫


🚨Job alert 🚨 We are looking for a Postdoc to join us in Stockholm, on a project that aims to use palaeogenomics to investigate cold adaptation in several different Arctic animals! ❄️🧬❄️🧬❄️🧬❄️🧬❄️🧬❄️🧬 Please RT! Full advertisement is here: su.se/department-of-…

Curious about the pathogens 🦠 found at the medieval necropolis of Las Gobas 🧬? From #Smallpox to #Erysipeloid, check out this thread 🧶 for exciting insights into ancient diseases, their detection and implications for Middle Age health! 👇 #AncientPathogens #aDNA
Excited to share the second paper of my PhD, published in @SciAdvances! We made the cover 🏅! Medieval #smallpox 🦠, #zoonoses 🐷, #kinship and #ancestry 🧬 from the Las Gobas necropolis in Northern Spain. A thread 🧶! doi.org/10.1126/sciadv… #AncientPathogens #aDNA