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NEOMATRIX Nov 19, 2024

The NEOMATRIX team came together in Paris for the AGRIPOP exhibition and symposium, describing how the neolithization spread from Anatolia to Europe. To learn more about our 4-year international scientific collaboration project NEOMATRIX, please visit: http://neomatrix.metu.edu.tr

NEOMATRIX is an international scientific collaboration project that investigates the Neolithic expansion across the Mediterranean.

NEOMATRIX is based on promoting the idea of democratic networks across local labs, by forming an exemplary collaboration among labs from different countries addressing similar questions: METU / Hacettepe aDNA Lab (Turkey), FORTH-IMBB and FORTH-ICS (Greece), Stockholm University Centre for Palaeogenetics (Sweden), and Institut Jacques Monod, Université de Paris and French National Centre for Scientific Research (France). The project is funded by the European Commission’s H2020 grant programme.

NEOMATRIX - A H2020 funded project on the Neolithic past of the Mediterranean

NEOMATRIX Oct 25, 2024

On Nov 19, an international symposium in Université Paris-Cité, followed by an exhibition, will present the achievements of the Turkish & French partners of NEOMATRIX to the general public!

You may register at [email protected] and
find details on our website:

https://bit.ly/4gZ38I9

Symposium & exhibition in Université Paris-Cité: The Neolithic expansion from Anatolia to France - NEOMATRIX

A one-day international symposium will present to the general public on November 19, 2024 at Buffon Amphitheater of the Université Paris-Cité, both individual and collaborative achievements of the Turkish and French partners of the international project NEOMATRIX that studied the Neolithic expansion from the archaeogenetic perspective. This symposium will accompany an exhibition conceived and organized

NEOMATRIX - A H2020 funded project on the Neolithic past of the Mediterranean

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NEOMATRIX Oct 24, 2023

And congratulations to all authors, including Oğuzhan Parasayan, @ThierryGrange & Eva-Maria Geigl, who are members of the NEOMATRIX team, for their paper analyzing ~36,000 and 37,000-years-old individuals from the site Buran-Kaya III in Crimea! 👏

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02211-9

Genome sequences of 36,000- to 37,000-year-old modern humans at Buran-Kaya III in Crimea - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Two Early Upper Palaeolithic genomes of humans that lived 36,000–37,000 years ago in Crimea reveal migration and admixture dynamics against a backdrop of climate change.

Nature

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NEOMATRIX Oct 24, 2023

Congratulations to NEOMATRIX members @zoepochon, Nora Bergfeldt, Emrah Kırdök, Mário Vicente, @ezgi, Maja Krzewińska, Anders Götherström and to all other authors for #aMeta, a fully automated ancient metagenomics pipeline! 👏

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-023-03083-9

aMeta: an accurate and memory-efficient ancient metagenomic profiling workflow - Genome Biology

Analysis of microbial data from archaeological samples is a growing field with great potential for understanding ancient environments, lifestyles, and diseases. However, high error rates have been a challenge in ancient metagenomics, and the availability of computational frameworks that meet the demands of the field is limited. Here, we propose aMeta, an accurate metagenomic profiling workflow for ancient DNA designed to minimize the amount of false discoveries and computer memory requirements. Using simulated data, we benchmark aMeta against a current state-of-the-art workflow and demonstrate its superiority in microbial detection and authentication, as well as substantially lower usage of computer memory.

BioMed Central

NEOMATRIX Oct 24, 2023

We are so proud to share that researchers who are involved in and are collaborating through the #NEOMATRIX network have opened this week with two very exciting #aDNA publications!

NEOMATRIX Jul 27, 2023

Our symposium "Entangled histories: insights into the evolution of humans and their domesticates through paleogenomics" attracted great attention at the #SMBE2023 meeting in #Ferrara last Tuesday. Thanks to all presenters and participants! #SMBE23
@officialSMBE

NEOMATRIX Jan 11, 2023

We are happy to announce that as the NEOMATRIX team we are organizing a session at #EAA2023!

We invite you to participate in
Session #670: Neolithization of the Mediterranean: Integrated Approaches to Old Questions
The call is open till 9 Feb!

https://bit.ly/3k0NrHv

#Neolithization #archaeology #bioarchaeology #archaeogenetics #biogeochemistry #archaeodating #linguistics

Call for EAA 2023 session “Neolithization of the Mediterranean: Integrated Approaches to Old Questions” - NEOMATRIX

As the NEOMATRIX team and through our collaboration with our colleague Tristan Carter from McMaster University, we will be hosting a session in the annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists this year (EAA 2023). The deadline for proposals is February 9th 2023, 23:59 CET, and the applications must be submitted through the EAA

NEOMATRIX - A H2020 funded project on the Neolithic past of the Mediterranean