Pete Heintzman

We are excited to share our new paper introducing a new tool for scrutinising #ancientDNA data - AMBER - and using this tool to examine reference genome alignment bias. doi.org/10.1093/bioinf…

Prepping for our last field work of the fall to the Sahtu region next week. We’ve built a new 4” drill for our partners at K’asho Got’ine (not pictured) as they build their permafrost monitoring capacity, and will test this portable 3” to take cores to 2 m. All custom (read $$).

Watch Icebreaker Oden slam into, and even jumping onto, the >4 metre multiyear ice of the Lincoln Sea! 💪💪💪 No ship has ever been here before… Our team from #CpgSthlm is onboard, collecting ancient DNA samples along the N Greenland coast. #GEOEO Expedition @polarforskning

New paper🚨 A team co-led by #cpgsthlm's researcher @jcchacond 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/42…

Validating a Target‐Enrichment Design for Capturing Uniparental Haplotypes in Ancient Domesticated Animals - More - Molecular Ecology Resources - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

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…

Please RT: New Postdoc position in my lab - with great collaborators in France @Klervia_Jaouen and Canada @cbataill - App deadline on March 25th Horses, climate change, the Americas... and more! Post-doc Position in paleogenomics and isotope geochemistry euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/320401

Congrats on your first first-author paper, @alexgilardet! 🥳

🧬🐭🐴🐻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-…

Published in 2009, bwa-aln is one of the oldest short-read aligners. It remains a popular choice for aligning ancient DNA reads. The following blog post explains the algorithmic reasons. lh3.github.io/2024/09/28/why…

A new hominin bone found among thousands of fragments using proteomics. So happy for my student @Emilympigott who discovered this possible late Neanderthal on Tuesday. One of dozens of new hominin fragments found in the #DoukaLab over the last 2 yrs! @univienna @Katerina__Douka

Next November 15th is the anniversary of the publication of the first aDNA paper, the #QuaggaPaper. To celebrate this milestone, join us at the #QuaggaQonference with @LudovicLorlando @SelBrace and Robert Fleischer. animal-adna.org/events/2024/11…

This PhD course will be running again next year so if you are interested keep an eye out here phdcourses.dk. #aDNA #metagenomics #sedaDNA #Course #PhDlife

The PhD course in Ancient environmental Genomics runs at full speed, yesterday was great phylogenetic placement and genome analysis from ancient metagenomes! With a series of cool hands-on exercises🤲 by @miwipe81, @nicola_alexa_, @PalaeoPete and @melanoidin. @Globe_UCPH 🧵

🧬 Our new study in Current Biology reveals that early European pastoralists grazed sheep & pigs in forests as early as 6,000 years ago! This practice has lasting effects on the structure of Central European forests 🌳 cell.com/current-biolog…

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

Postdoc opportunity at @CpgSthlm!

Yesterday, our team from #CpgSthlm recovered a 2-metre lake bottom sediment core from Nares Land on northern Greenland (82 deg N). The project is part of the #GEOEO Expedition organised by @polarforskning, and aims to study Greenland’s prehistory using ancient DNA.

New evidence from 10th-century Spanish remains hints that #Smallpox may have spread from central and northern Europe to Iberia, shedding light on medieval disease transmission. #History #Archaeology science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The GEOEO Expedition, with @polarforskning and icebreaker Oden, is now at 82 degrees latitude steaming north (well... at 2 knots). And we just made an amazing discovery! A large pod of c. 50 narwhals, which most likely have never seen humans before! 🧵with 2 videos

CPG researchers (and friends) have been presenting and hanging out at the excellent #SMBE2024 conference in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico! 🇲🇽