Centre for Palaeogenetics
@cpgsthlm.bsky.social
CPG brings scientists from diverse disciplines together in a state-of-the-art aDNA research facility, and is jointly run by Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
More info: https://www.palaeogenetics.com
More info: https://www.palaeogenetics.com
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Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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New #CpgSthlm paper led by @maridehasque.bsky.social published in Biology Letters!
Genomic and morphological analysis reveals long-term mammoth hybridization in British Columbia, Canada
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
New #CpgSthlm paper led by @maridehasque.bsky.social published in Biology Letters!
Genomic and morphological analysis reveals long-term mammoth hybridization in British Columbia, Canada
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
September 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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New #CpgSthlm paper led by @maridehasque.bsky.social published in Biology Letters!
Genomic and morphological analysis reveals long-term mammoth hybridization in British Columbia, Canada
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
New #CpgSthlm paper led by @maridehasque.bsky.social published in Biology Letters!
Genomic and morphological analysis reveals long-term mammoth hybridization in British Columbia, Canada
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth!
New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell!
Paper:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell!
Paper:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
September 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth!
New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell!
Paper:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell!
Paper:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
🚨JOB ALERT!🚨
Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics!
Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬
Apply here:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics!
Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬
Apply here:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
September 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🚨JOB ALERT!🚨
Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics!
Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬
Apply here:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics!
Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬
Apply here:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
New paper out from @johannanvs.bsky.social, @lovedalen.bsky.social and others from #CpgSthlm, using historical DNA to investigate temporal genomic change in the Scandinavian arctic fox!
Paper:
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Paper:
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
August 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
New paper out from @johannanvs.bsky.social, @lovedalen.bsky.social and others from #CpgSthlm, using historical DNA to investigate temporal genomic change in the Scandinavian arctic fox!
Paper:
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Paper:
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Postdoctoral Position in Wildlife Palaeogenomics!
Come join us in beautiful Stockholm!
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Come join us in beautiful Stockholm!
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
June 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Postdoctoral Position in Wildlife Palaeogenomics!
Come join us in beautiful Stockholm!
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Come join us in beautiful Stockholm!
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
What an incredible time we had last week at the Nobel Symposium "Palaeogenomics: Charting the Future of Ancient DNA" 💀🦣🦠🧬🧪
Connecting with so many leading international researchers in #ancientDNA at beautiful Villa Aske and Stockholm was inspiring ✨🤩
Thank you to all participants!
Connecting with so many leading international researchers in #ancientDNA at beautiful Villa Aske and Stockholm was inspiring ✨🤩
Thank you to all participants!
June 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
What an incredible time we had last week at the Nobel Symposium "Palaeogenomics: Charting the Future of Ancient DNA" 💀🦣🦠🧬🧪
Connecting with so many leading international researchers in #ancientDNA at beautiful Villa Aske and Stockholm was inspiring ✨🤩
Thank you to all participants!
Connecting with so many leading international researchers in #ancientDNA at beautiful Villa Aske and Stockholm was inspiring ✨🤩
Thank you to all participants!
We're thrilled to announce that the FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26 2026!
Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on!
Save the dates!
Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news
👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on!
Save the dates!
Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news
👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
May 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
We're thrilled to announce that the FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26 2026!
Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on!
Save the dates!
Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news
👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on!
Save the dates!
Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news
👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
New review paper in TREE out!
The Progressive Evolution of Cold-Adapted Species
By John Stewart, @lovedalen.bsky.social, @palaeopete.bsky.social and others
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Progressive Evolution of Cold-Adapted Species
By John Stewart, @lovedalen.bsky.social, @palaeopete.bsky.social and others
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
New review paper in TREE out!
The Progressive Evolution of Cold-Adapted Species
By John Stewart, @lovedalen.bsky.social, @palaeopete.bsky.social and others
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Progressive Evolution of Cold-Adapted Species
By John Stewart, @lovedalen.bsky.social, @palaeopete.bsky.social and others
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
NOBEL SYMPOSIA
We are delighted to announce two exciting public talks on Ancient DNA at Aula Magna (Stockholm University) on May 30th, 10:00-12:30h.
🦣⬅️ ”Can we bring back the woolly mammoth?” by Beth Shapiro.
🐎✋”The taming of the horse” by Ludovic Orlando.
Free entrance. All welcome!
We are delighted to announce two exciting public talks on Ancient DNA at Aula Magna (Stockholm University) on May 30th, 10:00-12:30h.
🦣⬅️ ”Can we bring back the woolly mammoth?” by Beth Shapiro.
🐎✋”The taming of the horse” by Ludovic Orlando.
Free entrance. All welcome!
April 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
NOBEL SYMPOSIA
We are delighted to announce two exciting public talks on Ancient DNA at Aula Magna (Stockholm University) on May 30th, 10:00-12:30h.
🦣⬅️ ”Can we bring back the woolly mammoth?” by Beth Shapiro.
🐎✋”The taming of the horse” by Ludovic Orlando.
Free entrance. All welcome!
We are delighted to announce two exciting public talks on Ancient DNA at Aula Magna (Stockholm University) on May 30th, 10:00-12:30h.
🦣⬅️ ”Can we bring back the woolly mammoth?” by Beth Shapiro.
🐎✋”The taming of the horse” by Ludovic Orlando.
Free entrance. All welcome!
Finally, in addition to recovering these million-year-old mitogenomes, we also present an improved DNA-based framework 🧬📈 for dating ancient samples beyond the limit of radiocarbon dating, which can facilitate more accurate reconstructions of species’ evolutionary histories!
April 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Finally, in addition to recovering these million-year-old mitogenomes, we also present an improved DNA-based framework 🧬📈 for dating ancient samples beyond the limit of radiocarbon dating, which can facilitate more accurate reconstructions of species’ evolutionary histories!
By analysing these very old mitogenomes together with >200 previously published ones, we were able to detect long-lost genetic diversity in the mammoth lineage during the last million years and to show how this loss coincides with past demographic and climatic changes.
April 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
By analysing these very old mitogenomes together with >200 previously published ones, we were able to detect long-lost genetic diversity in the mammoth lineage during the last million years and to show how this loss coincides with past demographic and climatic changes.
We recovered 34 new mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) from Siberian and North American mammoth specimens.
Of them, 11 date back to the Early and Middle Pleistocene geological periods, spanning from ~1.3 million to ~125 thousand years ago.
Of them, 11 date back to the Early and Middle Pleistocene geological periods, spanning from ~1.3 million to ~125 thousand years ago.
April 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We recovered 34 new mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) from Siberian and North American mammoth specimens.
Of them, 11 date back to the Early and Middle Pleistocene geological periods, spanning from ~1.3 million to ~125 thousand years ago.
Of them, 11 date back to the Early and Middle Pleistocene geological periods, spanning from ~1.3 million to ~125 thousand years ago.
New paper 🧵
A team co-led by #cpgsthlm 's researcher @jcchacond.bsky.social has analysed DNA from a large number of mammoths across a million-year timescale 🦣🧬
The findings include the discovery and analysis of the oldest known woolly #mammoth in North America!
👉 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
A team co-led by #cpgsthlm 's researcher @jcchacond.bsky.social has analysed DNA from a large number of mammoths across a million-year timescale 🦣🧬
The findings include the discovery and analysis of the oldest known woolly #mammoth in North America!
👉 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
April 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
New paper 🧵
A team co-led by #cpgsthlm 's researcher @jcchacond.bsky.social has analysed DNA from a large number of mammoths across a million-year timescale 🦣🧬
The findings include the discovery and analysis of the oldest known woolly #mammoth in North America!
👉 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
A team co-led by #cpgsthlm 's researcher @jcchacond.bsky.social has analysed DNA from a large number of mammoths across a million-year timescale 🦣🧬
The findings include the discovery and analysis of the oldest known woolly #mammoth in North America!
👉 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
She made it! Congratulations! 🎉
March 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
She made it! Congratulations! 🎉
Our student @bergfeldt.bsky.social is currently defending her PhD thesis on metagenomics 🧬🦠 of ancient human populations, with Carles Lalueza-Fox from @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social as opponent.
Good luck, Nora!
Good luck, Nora!
March 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Our student @bergfeldt.bsky.social is currently defending her PhD thesis on metagenomics 🧬🦠 of ancient human populations, with Carles Lalueza-Fox from @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social as opponent.
Good luck, Nora!
Good luck, Nora!
Congrats to Samantha López Clinton for the successful half-time PhD seminar 🎉
February 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Congrats to Samantha López Clinton for the successful half-time PhD seminar 🎉
Congrats to our students @alexgilardet.bsky.social and Chenyu Jin for their successful Licentiate defense and half-time PhD seminar! 🎉
February 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Congrats to our students @alexgilardet.bsky.social and Chenyu Jin for their successful Licentiate defense and half-time PhD seminar! 🎉
We now have an answer!
Our postdoc Gonzalo (@gog1693.bsky.social) and his student Sofia have analyzed DNA from this frozen carcass.
It's a porcupine 😲 🤯
Our postdoc Gonzalo (@gog1693.bsky.social) and his student Sofia have analyzed DNA from this frozen carcass.
It's a porcupine 😲 🤯
November 26, 2024 at 3:53 PM
We now have an answer!
Our postdoc Gonzalo (@gog1693.bsky.social) and his student Sofia have analyzed DNA from this frozen carcass.
It's a porcupine 😲 🤯
Our postdoc Gonzalo (@gog1693.bsky.social) and his student Sofia have analyzed DNA from this frozen carcass.
It's a porcupine 😲 🤯
This frozen "Mystery Mummy" was found in the Klondike permafrost, and is likely several tens of thousands of years old!!
But what species is this? We don't know!
What is your best guess?
We have a sample in our lab, and are working on sequencing it's DNA, so can soon tell you who got it right 😀
But what species is this? We don't know!
What is your best guess?
We have a sample in our lab, and are working on sequencing it's DNA, so can soon tell you who got it right 😀
November 14, 2024 at 2:37 PM
This frozen "Mystery Mummy" was found in the Klondike permafrost, and is likely several tens of thousands of years old!!
But what species is this? We don't know!
What is your best guess?
We have a sample in our lab, and are working on sequencing it's DNA, so can soon tell you who got it right 😀
But what species is this? We don't know!
What is your best guess?
We have a sample in our lab, and are working on sequencing it's DNA, so can soon tell you who got it right 😀