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Ancient DNA Lab at the Center for New Technologies, University of Warsaw. Working on 🦇🐿️🐀🦌🐻🫎🐐🐈‍⬛🧔‍♂️🦇🐎 and more! http://adna.cent.uw.edu.pl/

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Feb 5

Hello, Bluesky! We’re the Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics, Uni Warsaw where ancient DNA meets modern science!

Follow us as we dig into the past to help understand and protect the future!

#AncientDNA #ConservationGenetics #ScienceSky

Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder: MInAS Ancient DNA metadata standards workshop is just around the corner.

30.10.2025, 9:00-12:00 CET; online

www.mixs-minas.org

MIxS-MInAS

www.mixs-minas.org

Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 6d

Join @martynamolak.bsky.social at the MIM UW seminar Oct. 29, 2025, 10:15 to hear about the bioinformatic challenges in investigating the past using DNA.

www.mimuw.edu.pl/en/seminars/...

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Danijela Popović @popovicdani.bsky.social · 24d

Brown bears participated in Roman spectacles, read more in our latest paper! @lpcg.bsky.social #BaBBe

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 24d

At the Roman legionary fortress and provincial capital of Viminacium, modern Serbia, was an amphitheatre #RomanFortThursday
Analysis of a bear cranium found there provides the first direct evidence for the participation of brown bears in Roman spectacles.

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Aerial photograph of modern farmland, divided into different-coloured, rectilinear fields. Overlaid are diagrams indicating the boundaries of the city and legionary fortress, as well as an illustration of a circular building representing the amphitheatre in its location.

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 21d

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Słowianie a genetyka: skąd przyszli nasi przodkowie? DNA odkrywa prawdę | Polityka o historii

YouTube video by Polityka o historii

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · 27d

Congratulations @mateuszbaca.bsky.social for being appointed head of the Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics! 🎉👑

Beer on your tab this weekend! 😌

Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Sep 25

@martynamolak.bsky.social at the 11th International Conference of the Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies.

#HomoMigrans. The Role of Migration and Mobility in Human History
and Prehistory.

Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Sep 9

festiwalnauki.edu.pl/program/spot...

Program - spotkania | Festiwal Nauki

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Sep 9

Both sessions will be in Polish. No prior knowledge or experience required. Join us in CeNT (ul. Banacha 2c, 02-097 Warszawa) on the 27th and bring science to everyone!

Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Sep 9

Saturday, September 27, 2025 - 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
During the last ice age, Europe was inhabited by many species of animals, such as mammoths and cave hyenas. We can learn about their history by examining the DNA preserved in their remains with @mateuszbaca.bsky.social

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Sep 9

Saturday, September 27, 2025 - 1:20 p.m. to 2:50 p.m.
Was my great-grandfather a Neanderthal? Or perhaps a Viking? We'll learn how genetic studies of human remains from centuries ago can answer these and other questions with @martynamolak.bsky.social

Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Sep 9

This #FestiwalNauki at CeNT, we have two aDNA sessions to feed your curiosity!

Take this opportunity to learn about the methods and achievements in aDNA with @martynamolak.bsky.social and @mateuszbaca.bsky.social

Register with [email protected] from the 15th of September. Details in 🧵

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Sep 9

And the conferences continue!

This week, Uni Warsaw is hosting the 11th Polish Evolutionary Conference #PCE. We are pitching in with organising, volunteering, and presenting too!

Here's @naturalice.bsky.social on #MicrotusArvalis.

Read her recent paper academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Sep 8

Last week at the 7th conference on Species and genetic diversity of the Pleistocene and Holocene fauna in Eurasia in Smoleń, Poland.

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Sep 1

What do you mean @isba11.bsky.social is over already?

Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Sep 1

Did you get a chance to look at @kaaviya.bsky.social and @mateuszbaca.bsky.social posters?

@martynamolak.bsky.social had a great talk too!

@isba11.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Aug 27

Did you catch them by their posters today at @isba11.bsky.social?

@popovicdani.bsky.social on the Sandomierz Chessmen and Barbara Bujalska on Late Pleistocene European small hamsters

Posters up until Friday!

Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Aug 27

@isba11.bsky.social !!

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Aug 27

@isba11.bsky.social

Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Aug 26

Did you catch @kaaviya.bsky.social's vole talk?

@aarc-community.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Aug 24

Our phd student @kaaviya.bsky.social will give a flash talk on #OrkneyVoles. We apologies in advance for all the terrible puns she will make. It is inevitable 🥲

AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · Aug 20

We also wanted to send a reminder that we are organizing an event at #ISBA2025 in beautiful Torino! If you are there for the conference on August 26th, please join us! No need for registration. #aDNA

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Aug 4

@popovicdani.bsky.social, Gabrysia Damentka and Aleksandra Żeromska at #SMBE2025 in Beijing!

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Danijela Popović @popovicdani.bsky.social · Jul 22

#SMBE2025 in Beijing and @lpcg.bsky.social is here to present our work on small and big mammals! Come to poster sessions 1 and 3 to learn more. #BaBE

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Jul 9

And it's finally up!

www.hce.uni-heidelberg.de/en/education...

Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Jul 9

NEW PAPER ALERT!

@naturalice.bsky.social @popovicdani.bsky.social @mateuszbaca.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Evolutionary history of the Altai grey vole, Microtus obscurus (Rodentia: Cricetidae), reconstructed using modern and ancient genomes

Abstract. The Altai grey vole (Microtus obscurus) is a rodent species present in Western Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Near East. The taxonomic relationshi

academic.oup.com

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Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics @lpcg.bsky.social · Jun 23

🎉 Big congratulations to our very own Gabriela Damentka for receiving the Young Investigator Attendance Award for SMBE 2025 in Beijing! We're proud to see our students recognized on the global stage!

Say hi to her in China! #SMBE2025