SPAAM-community1d ago

📢 Registration now open for SPAAM8!

Join us for the ICP2026 satellite hybrid meeting on 22 June 2026 in Stockholm 🇸🇪

🧬 Ancient metagenomics community gathering in person or online!

🔗 Register here before June 10th: https://forms.gle/Z1AK5MHaFEfbYdydA

We look forward to seeing you! 🔥

#aDNA #metagenomics #SPAAM #SPAAM8

SPAAM 8 registration

Date June 22nd, 2026 (prior to ICP 2026) 9:30 AM Location Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden In-person attendance fee: Attendance fee: €25. A payment link will be sent to all registered participants in the coming days. Includes coffee, snacks and catering throughout the day. Deadline to register: Wednesday 10th of June, 2026 The full schedule will be finalised by the 12th of June.

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EAZ2d ago
🧬🏺 ⚖️ #EAZ 60 (1): New publication announcement
Many archaeologists remain dissatisfied with the extent to which aDNA research dominates narratives of the past. In a new workshop report, Kent M. Johnson and Niels Nørkjær Johannsen argue for a more integrated approach that combines biological, archaeological, cultural and environmental evidence.
https://doi.org/10.54799/KONZ1495
#archaeology #research #genetics #aDNA #anthropology
SPAAM-community3d ago
Ancient animal remains hold clues to past #zoonotic diseases. 🐾🧬 Across 6,000 years of Eurasian #zooarchaeological material, researchers detected 29 opportunistic #pathogens, highlighting the value of lesion-guided sampling.
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #ancientDNA #zooarchaeology #pathogengenomics #infection #bioarchaeology #genomics #metagenomics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71543-4
Probing the zooarchaeological record across time and space for ancient pathogen DNA - Nature Communications

Authors investigate ancient DNA from animal remains and identify multiple signatures of ancient zoonotic pathogens. They find ancient pathogen genomics from archaeological animal remains may inform zoonotic disease emergence.

Nature
Cluster ROOTSMay 26

Gesellschaften der Jungsteinzeit waren viel mobiler als bislang gedacht - #Deutschlandfunk #ForschungAktuell berichtet über die Ergebnisse der in der vergangenen Woche veröffentlichten #aDNA-Studie:

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/wanderlust-in-der-steinzeit-gen-analyse-enthuellt-sozialleben-im-neolithikum-100.html

#Jungsteinzeit #archäogenetik #megalithkultur

Reisen im Neolithikum: Steinzeitmenschen reisten längere Strecken als bislang gedacht

Steinzeitmenschen waren laut Forschern wesentlich mobiler als bislang gedacht. Sie legten beispielsweise weite Strecken zurück, um Grabstätten aufzusuchen.

Deutschlandfunk
SPAAM-communityMay 25
Genomes record the cost of #overexploitation. 🐾🧬 Chinese #pangolins show severe genetic erosion after decades of decline, with some populations now at critical #extinction risk.
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag099
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #conservation #ancientDNA #museum #museumgenomics #chonesepangolin
Cluster ROOTSMay 22

Wenn Menschen als Familie zusammmenleben, die nicht biologisch verwandt sind, wird das heute oft als Patchworkfamilie bezeichnet. Genetische Analysen an Knochen, die aus 5000 Jahre alten Großsteingräbern im heutigen Niedersachsen, Hessen und Nordrhein-Westfalen stammen, zeigen: Auch damals war das Zusammenleben offenbar komplexer als bisher vermutet.

Die Analysen zeigen auch: Die Menschen der Jungsteinzeit waren deutlich mobiler als angenommen. So wurden in einem Beispiel ein Vater und ein Sohn fast 250 Kilometer voneinander entfernt bestattet.

Die Studie ist gestern im renommierten Wissenschafts-Journal #Science erschienen. Mehr Infos dazu findet Ihr hier: https://www.uni-kiel.de/de/cluster-roots/detailansicht/news/082-verwandtschaft-jungsteinzeit

Grafik: Ralf Opitz, Inst. f. UFG/Uni Kiel

#Archäologie #archaeology #Archäogenetik #aDNA #Jungsteinzeit #Megalithkultur #WartbergKultur

Poseidon FrameworkMay 18
New packages in the community-archive:
2026_Golubinski_Maslomecz (v1.0.1)
https://github.com/poseidon-framework/community-archive #aDNA #OpenData
GitHub - poseidon-framework/community-archive: The Poseidon Community Archive (PCA). Download from here: https://server.poseidon-adna.org/explorer/community-archive NOT through the GitHub web interface.

The Poseidon Community Archive (PCA). :warning: Download from here: https://server.poseidon-adna.org/explorer/community-archive :no_entry_sign: NOT through the GitHub web interface. - poseidon-fram...

GitHub
Poseidon FrameworkMay 18

Quick reminder that we keep maintaining an #aDNA paper directory here: https://papers.poseidon-adna.org
It lists publications with ancient human whole genome sequencing samples from around the world, and documents if the respective data is available in any of our public archives.

If you would like to add missing papers you can just edit this list: https://github.com/poseidon-framework/paper-directory/blob/main/list.csv with a pull request on GitHub. Just add the DOI and the number of human WGS aDNA samples that worked for a given paper.

SPAAM-communityMay 18
Ancient DNA reveals a wandering #bear. 🐻🧬 A 9,600-year-old genome from Swedish lake #sediments shows a southern brown bear migrating north during #post-glacial recolonization.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2527944123
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #sedaDNA #biodiversity
SPAAM-communityMay 11
What #pathogens did people carry before European contact? Ancient DNA 🧬from a #Bolivian #mummy 🪦 reveals #Streptococcus pyogenes 🦠, pushing its presence in the Americas back centuries!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71603-9
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #ancientgenomics #pathogengenomics #virulence
An ancient genome of Streptococcus pyogenes from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy - Nature Communications

Streptococcus pyogenes is a human pathogen responsible for a range of diseases. Here, the authors reconstruct an ancient S. pyogenes genome from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy, supporting that the pathogen circulated in the Americas prior to the European contact.

Nature