🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴 Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics! June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm. Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ posters)! Submit abstracts here 👉 https://t.co/lCaQHcX9GT Deadline: Nov 30

The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth! New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell! Paper: https://t.co/69N6SOch2S

🚨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! RT, save the dates, and check https://t.co/8IWn9khrOS for news.

These talks are part of the Nobel Symposium 2025, "Palaeogenomics: charting the future of ancient DNA", which will join leading experts in palaeogenomics and early career researchers to share insights on the current state of ancient DNA research and its future trajectories.

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 @bonesandbugs 🐎✋”The taming of the horse” by @LudovicLorlando 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!

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.

New paper🚨 A team co-led by #cpgsthlm's researcher @jcchacond 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! 👉 https://t.co/DKuJ1XQ2eP

New paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity by Amanda Lindahl (PhD student at #CpgSthlm) and colleagues: Palaeogenomic inference of biodiversity dynamics across Quaternary timescales https://t.co/SI4nShBOgp

🚨Paper Alert!!!🚨 A high-throughput ancient DNA extraction method for large-scale sample screening! Without using robots! Read the new methods paper (Open Access) by our PhD student @alexgilardet https://t.co/zq1J1J4WVL

📢 Meet the speakers: Love Dalén 📢 @love_dalen is a Professor of evolutionary genomics at @Stockholm_Uni , and one of the founding members of the Swedish Centre for Palaeogenetics (@CpgSthlm). Read more about him here: https://t.co/i9etfqUojU

Abstract submission for ISBA11 is now open! We look foward to all your submissions https://t.co/UgtgTooXm2 #Archaeology #Biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA #ISBA11 #ISBAconference #archaeologists

🧬🐭🐴🐻JOB ALERT🐻🐴🐭🧬 We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers in DeepTime Palaeogenomics! All positions are for 2 years (extension possible), & are fully funded both in terms of employment and project costs. Deadline: 2 Dec 2024 Please RT! Apply: https://t.co/5hR5NA5kMF

New paper out by Adrian Lister (@NHM_London) and Love Dalén (@CpgSthlm): ”Mammoths, DNA and morphology” https://t.co/46gnYkYqwr

▪️ Open postdoc position ▪️ 🔎🧬🐘 I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me on mapping the genomic legacy of the elephant ivory trade in Europe using ancient DNA. Hosted by Lund University 🇸🇪 with @BengtHanssonLU Please RT! Info & apply here: https://t.co/cbA4GpTY0s

This research was a joint effort of CPG's brown bear team: @IsaFeinauer, @EdanaLord, @JohannaNystrm , George Xenikoudakis, Erik Ersmark, @love_dalen, and Ioana Meleg. Congrats! 🎉❤️🐻

🔑Key findings: After the Ice Age, southern Scandinavia was recolonized by several female brown bear lineages, but northern Scandinavia only by one. The bottleneck ca. 100 years ago severely reduced mitochondrial diversity in the South, with only one remaining haplotype today.

🚨Paper alert🚨 Researchers at #CpgSthlm present new research on Scandinavian brown bears🐻🧬 They have analyzed 41 ancient, historical, and modern mitogenomes to uncover the species' demography since the last Ice Age🥶 OA paper https://t.co/5lzQpNP4Wt 📷Francis C. Franklin

Last week we celebrated our yearly research retreat at Tovetorp research station. Great days of interesting and inspiring research presentations, Dark Projects, table tennis, sauna, and more! 🤓🔮🏓🧖‍♀️🦌💫