Associate professor in population genetics @unibirmingham
Birmingham, England
Joined August 2011
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We publish today the first ancient whole-genome sequences from Arabia and show how they inform on ancestry and disease in the Middle East 🧬☠️ #aDNA #MiddleEast #Bahrain cell.com/cell-genomics/fullt…
Ancient DNA from cave sediments in Ireland shows connections with fauna across Europe including woolly-mammoth!
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12,000-year-old fingerprints of a Natufian child on a clay bead science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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We are looking for an enthusiast & motivated postdoc to join the Paleogenomics and Evolutionary Biology group at @LIIGH_UNAM, to lead a project working with human pre-hispanic samples. Interested candidates send a CV and letter of intent to [email protected]. Please #RT.
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Last chance to apply for postdoctoral positions at the Center for the Human Past/Uppsala University.
Application deadline: Monday, 15 December 2025.
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New lab technician position available in our groups, contact directly @AgaGambus or @saponaro_m for further details
Senior research technician position available in the labs of @AgaGambus and @saponaro_m at the @UoBmedicalsci @unibirm_CMH. Get in touch directly with us for informal chat for questions/queries jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW912/senior… please RT
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Thrilled to share our study sequencing genetic data from tropical mammoths 🏝️🦣. First DNA recovered from Columbian mammoths southern than USA shorturl.at/xjIvy. Thanks to all collaborators, you were key to this success! Below a fantastic note covering the paper 👇
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Large pedigrees are all the rage in ancient dna these days but thus far they’ve been manually reconstructed. @edwardhuangc from my group built an automated reconstruction tool, please try it out!
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What did family trees look like in prehistory? Ancient DNA now lets us sample hundreds of people from a site, but pedigrees have been difficult to reconstruct. Our new tool “repare” finally enables automatic ancient pedigree reconstruction… more in the replies! ⬇️
ALT Diagram of repare's pedigree reconstruction process
ALT Screenshot of repare's associated preprint
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Analysis of fats and oils on pottery has suggested that Bronze Age communities in eastern Arabia consumed more plants than indicated by the archaeological record.
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Thrilled to announce that our book chapter was published by @routledgebooks in #OpenAccess. This chapter is part of an outstanding 740-page book that examines the early events of the Bantu expansion in Central Africa from multidisciplinary perspectives. 🧵taylorfrancis.com/chapters/o…
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Postdoc position opening in my group! Research projects: pangenomes for diverse organisms, genome evolution, biocomputing, language models. Please reach out if interested!
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Our genomics experts have worked with partners from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East to uncover how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas - one of the most extreme and challenging environments on Earth birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/g…
ALT Nepalese landscape, Yaks against top Ama Dablam. © LAND / Adobe Stock
Our new paper on genetic diversity in the Himalayas, when it began and how it may have supported survival in extreme environments
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Our new paper on ancient DNA to address the spread of Uralic languages now out in @nature (we started working on this in 2018). Many interesting results, including a sample from ~16k years ago Yakutia that can be modeled as an unadmixed Native American.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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A 4-year postdoc position in population genomics is available in my group at the University of East Anglia, to work on a project sequencing a thousand fox genomes across rural and urban environments in the UK.
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"We added previously published sequences for 20 indivdiuals [sic] confidently classified as Phoenician or Punic (7 from 2 Sardinian sites, 1 from Ibiza and 12 from Beirut)"
But 2 of those in Beirut were an Egyptian mom and her admixed son
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Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors
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How the Emirati Genome Project could lead to advances in personalised medicine.
Thanks to @MarcHaber of @birminghamdubai and Prof Habiba Al Safar of @KhalifaUni for the comments.
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Our perspective on pangenomes in diverse populations and their critical role in advancing Precision Medicine
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Our papers, out today in @nature, show how ancient DNA from the Eneolithic and Bronze Age steppe points to a North Pontic origin of the Indo-European language family and a Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) origin of Indo-Anatolian (inclusive of the now extinct Anatolian languages). 1/
Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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