The first investigation of genomic diversity among people buried at Machu Picchu has revealed surprising diversity. The DNA in the 15th-century remains was degraded, but scientists were still able to sequence it with techniques developed at UCSC Paleogenomics Lab news.ucsc.edu/2023/07/machu-…

🔥Hot off the press🔥 IBDGem is a computational method for detecting related genomic regions between individuals with very low sequencing coverage (less than 1x!!) developed by our very own Remy Nguyen.
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Check out the latest on biodiversity monitoring, eDNA, and sneaky invasive crayfish from Kim Ballare!

🐾Nearly 100 years after heroically helping save Nome, Alaska from a diphtheria outbreak by delivering much-needed medicine, #Balto the sled dog is lending a helping paw once again by providing scientists with DNA to study sled dog genealogy. news.ucsc.edu/2023/04/balto-… 🧵⬇️

Also in this release was a paper from Beth Shapiro UCSC Paleogenomics Lab that sequences the genome of #Balto , the heroic sled dog who helped save Nome, Alaska from a diphtheria outbreak. They found distinct differences from modern sled dog populations. news.ucsc.edu/2023/04/balto-…

Do you like genomics, ecology, evolution, and long-dead plants & animals? Are you looking for a lab job to sharpen your skills/interests before grad school? Come join us as a technician in the Paleogenomics Lab UCSC Paleogenomics Lab at UC Santa Cruz!
Apply by 8 May: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01483

We had a lovely time tabling at Blue Innovation today! Nothing better than spending an afternoon next to the ocean talking about our research 🌞👩‍🔬Kim Ballare Ciara Wanket Merly Escalona Chloé Orland

Here's one for all our fellow paleonerds out there to celebrate 1,000 followers on this account! Stay tuned in for cool research, lab updates, and science memes 🧬🦣🥳

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Joshua Kapp! Hero of the UCSC Paleogenomics Lab for (among his many ideas) reinventing how we prepare our ancient DNA libraries. Yes, that’s a single-stranded DNA cake!

Heading home. But we’ll be back, Yukon muck!

I hear her tweets are excellent!

An honest day’s fieldwork! We promise the animals were like this when we found them…

Please excuse any late responses from certain members of the lab, we are knee deep in research.
Sam @extremelydusty

Stoked to be a part of this awesome project studying genomics of endangered birds and bumblebees - UCSC scholars join researchers statewide on a massive genomic study of California’s biodiversity news.ucsc.edu/2022/07/ca-con… via UC Santa Cruz

Fun to play a small role in this neat paper 🐻‍❄️🐻🧬 Big congrats to Ming-Shan et al!

Another polar bear paper out today… Meet Bruno! Her 100,000-year old genome revealed an ancient episode of gene flow into brown bears that is preserved in the genomes of all brown bears today. rdcu.be/cPNd1

🧬 Happy DNA Day! 🦣 We’re celebrating the day with several meetings about genomics! Although that may just be a normal Monday…

Once we've got cells with the DNA of extinct creatures like the dodo or the mammoth, what's the next step to bringing them back to life? Professor Beth Shapiro explained in our event on de-extinction: #DNADay youtube.com/watch?v=dV0GVg…