Come listen to Katerina Douka talk about our friends the Denisovans on the 21st of November at Naturhist.riksmuseet: How new fossil discoveries reshape palaeoanthropology

The Insect Biome Atlas is being showcased at the Swedish Natural History Museum Microsculpture exhibition by Levon Biss! What an honor!

Inference of population genetic structure from temporal samples of DNA biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Our student Tatiana Feuerborn is giving her final PhD seminar on population genomics of sledge dogs 🏔️🛷🐕 archsci2020 Naturhist.riksmuseet

NEW PAPER from our department!!! "Consequences of past climate change and recent human persecution on mitogenomic diversity in the arctic fox." Good job Petter and colleagues! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Hello World! palaeogenetics.com

Many congrats to Ahmed Mohammed who is not part of our department, but we support him any way! 😜👏👏👏

Want more dog stories? We've got you covered! Our PhD student Tatiana Feuerborn just published a study including arctic dog and wolf samples spanning over 4,500 years to gain insight into the #genetic history of #Inuit #dogs Check it out! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Our PhD student @JMasviken was part of the #Ryder19 expedition in North Western Greenland last summer. You can read about this exciting fieldwork in the link below.

This morning Miroslav Valan defended his Licentiate thesis and impressed the audience with his machine learning applied to image-based identification of insects. Congrats, Miroslav! 📸🐝🐞🐜🦋

We are searching for a PhD student (4-year funding) to study adaptive introgression in Birds-of-Paradise! Position is mostly based Dept. Bioinformatics & Genetics at Naturhistoriska but includes time spend at @mfnberlin! More info via: tinyurl.com/rkay55a. Please apply before 28th of Feb!

Biologists in Uppsala and Stockholm! We're organizing the third #LoveEvolution #DarwinDay event at Naturhist.riksmuseet on 29th Feb - 1st Mar. If you're interested in #outreach, read on and join us! 1/2

We have organized a one day symposium to celebrate the inauguration of our Centre in Stockholm. Friends Ludovic Orlando Dr Adam Rutherford Tom Parsons from @theICMP and Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonsson from @UU_University will join to help us make this day memorable! All welcome!

All ready for the “Volunteer Day at the Museum”, a way of thanking our 150+ volunteers that jointly collected 5000 insect community samples over 12 months for our Insect Biome Atlas project! What an achievement! Dept. Bioinformatics & Genetics at Naturhistoriska @_SLU @2017Kaw100 DEEP at Stockholm University SciLifeLab

First of the two papers that came out as preprints this weekend from our department: collaborative effort of the members of Centre for Palaeogenetics to filter out human sequences when working with ancient DNA samples 🐻🐶🐺🐹🦊🦏🐘.

Second paper of the weekend: BIG4 Project and @AllaInsekter joined forces to confirm that preservation in high ethanol concentrations make insects fragile to work with. Even samples mailed with PostNord Sverige resulted undamaged when preserved in 70 % ethanol 🐜🦋🦟🐞

Please RT – Open SciLifeLab Call for COVID-19 related Proposals. 3 areas: Coordination of samples, studies & data; Technology development; and Research projects. Rapid application process, funding primarily for short-term initiatives. Apply by March 30 on: bit.ly/2WGrgZv

Our PhD student @JMasviken will defend his licentiate thesis "Patterns of vascular plant diversity along altitude gradients in the Swedish mountains" via Zoom today at 13:30. Tune in if interested! su.se/zoologi/englis…

Twitter, we need your help! Where should we focus our efforts next? 1) Sequence more DNA to find out if this 18,000 year old puppy is a wolf or dog? 2) Or try to break the record for “oldest DNA” (see link)? - RT for Dogor🐶 - Like for “older DNA”🦣 nature.com/articles/s4158…

In my view, SNP capture should complement, not replace, whole-genome ('shotgun') sequencing, which does important cultural heritage material the most justice. But for the material where direct sequencing is not possible, SNP capture retrieves information otherwise not possible.