Stephan Schiffels

Morgen auf der langen Nacht der Wissenschaften gibt's von mir um 22:00 Uhr einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Gene und Geschichte – Wie alte DNA unsere bewegte Vergangenheit erzählt". Herzliche Einladung ans @MPI_EVA_Leipzig

Am 20. Juni ist es soweit: Das @MPI_EVA_Leipzig lädt zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften ein! 😊 Ab 18 Uhr erwarten Euch spannende Vorträge & eine bunte Vielfalt an Mitmachstationen rund um #Menschheitsgeschichte 🧬🧪 & #Primatenevolution. 🐒 Das Programm: eva.mpg.de/de/veranstaltu…

Our #PhD students are excited to hear @stschiff speak about "Spatial inference of population structure and prehistoric human mobility from ancient and modern #genomes" tomorrow for our #PopGen Seminar series. Full schedule and streaming signup at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

Call for #PhD students open! Apply by 14th of May to start your research career in #evolution #genetics in beautiful #Vienna among a fun international and interdisciplinary crowd of peers #evolVienna #bioinformatics #bigdata #Drosophila #adaptation #popgen please RT

I'm thrilled that our new article was published today in @AJHGNews. It was an excellent collaboration with @cschlebu, Yoro Diallo, Vaclav Janousek, and Viktor Cerny. Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel #Africa #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg…

Excellent book review on "The trouble with ancient DNA" by my colleague @KathrinNaegele: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Nice article in National Geographics (in German) on our findings of dynastic relationships among Celtic elite burials, featuring Angela Mötsch from my group: nationalgeographic.de/geschichte-und…

Our Cell Genomics preview “Double or Nothing – Ancient Duplications in the Amylase Locus Drove Human Adaptation” covering Yilmaz F. (@feyza__yilmaz) et al., Science 2024 and Bolognini D. (@davidebolo93) et al., Nature 2024 is now out. massilani-lab.com/new-publicatio…

Our work, which shows statistical issues with the previous claim of a severe ancient bottleneck in the ancestry of African populations, has been selected as a Featured article in @GeneticsGSA doi.org/10.1093/geneti… Great work by @YunDeng5, co-advised by @ras_nielsen and me 1/2

"Ancient DNA reveals family ties" is named on of the top 10 Science Break-throughs in 2024 by Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). Our work on early Celtic princely burials and their discovered close kinship gets mentioned, too!

The Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology is pleased to announce that Dr. Patrick Roberts @palaeotropics will join its board of directors, heading the new Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanisation bit.ly/41SW7DI

This work about the severe African bottleneck hypothesis is now published on Genetics at: doi.org/10.1093/geneti…. More details can be found at our previous thread below:

👏👏 @arevsumer! Contains our IBD analysis led by @YileiHuang317: Multiple really long 20cm++ IBD segments link the two record 45ky-old sequenced modern human sites Zlatý kůň (Czechia) and Ranis (Germany). Showing they are closely related - within few generations. 😮😮 (1/3)

Out today in @sciencemagazine, we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 present-day and ancient modern humans, including 59 individuals who lived between 2,000 and 45,000 years ago. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…