Xavier Roca-Rada, PhD
@XavierRocaRada
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Paleogenomicist - Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University
Providence, RI
Joined November 2010
I’ve joined Bluesky and will be moving there! Find me at 🦋.
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🚨 New paper! .🧬 We explore ancestry shifts, kinship ties & Mediterranean links at Mas d’en Boixos (Catalonia), from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. 👨🏻🔬A long journey since my master’s! Huge thanks to @cmpereirasantos Assumpció & Bastien! @ACAD_Research_ .
cell.com
Human genetics; Biological sciences; Paleobiology
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Excited to share our new paper! We benchmarked the Twist Ancient DNA kit for in-solution enrichment. It’s cost-effective, robust, and shows no allelic bias, even when pooling libraries!.@TwistBioscience @ro99i___ @ACAD_Research_ .
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com
Background In-solution hybridization enrichment of genetic markers is a method of choice in paleogenomic studies, where the DNA of interest is generally heavily fragmented and contaminated with...
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🚨 Don’t miss the 1st HAAM-radio symposium: "Ethics in Human DNA Research".📅 May 29 (next week!).🕒 LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm).📝 Register by May 28.🔗
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Great working with @Haarkotter on this project! Excited about the results of applying aDNA to forensic samples! 🦴🧬.
Ever wondered if aDNA methods could be applied to forensic samples?.Glad to share this work with my fellow @XavierRocaRada done during my stay in @ACAD_Research_ .(Spoiler: they could, with magnificent results.).
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RT @TwistBioscience: @CurrentBiology From @DNATimeTravel, @XavierRocaRada, @ro99i___ and team using the Twist Human Ancient DNA panel.“Opti….
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In-solution hybridisation enrichment of genetic markers is a method of choice in paleogenomic studies, where the DNA of interest is generally heavily fragmented and contaminated with environmental...
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RT @LeonardTaufik: Bringing you the 3rd series of HAAM-Radio Webinar! This time we’ll talk about Southeast Asian and Oceanian population. D….
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RT @AdamWernerSci: Excited to be hosting this webinar on Ancient DNA with @DNATimeTravel and @XavierRocaRada . Come.and hear all about thei….
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Excited to be hosting this live with this Webinar featuring Dr Bastien Llamas & Dr Xavier Roca-Rada, PhD. Please join in now or watch at a later time!
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Thrilled to share our preprint on Portugal’s genetic history! 🇵🇹.
Preprint alert🚨This one is special, as I am happy to share our latest work on the genetic history of my native Portugal!.Led by postdoc @XavierRocaRada, we use aDNA to uncover dynamic interactions between migrant and local communities across millennia! .
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RT @hannes_rathmann: In our new @ScienceAdvances paper, we explore 40,000 years of Ice Age hunter-gatherer demography in Europe, utilizing….
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RT @TwistBioscience: New from @DNATimeTravel, @XavierRocaRada, @ro99i___ and team:.“Optimised in-solution enrichment of over a million anci….
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RT @tina_saupe: Hosting the first #HAAMTasting @HumanEvoUU together with @XavierRocaRada. It's amazing to see such a variability of approac….
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📰 Register for the upcoming HAAM-Tasting webinar scheduled for the 20th of March🧬➡️🥓 ..#HAAM_tasting #aDNA #PopGen @HAAM_community
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RT @PenskeSandra: Today, our paper on kinship and social organisation at the Early Bronze Age burial site of Leubingen was published! Lots….
nature.com
Scientific Reports - Kinship practices at the early bronze age site of Leubingen in Central Germany
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📢 Calling ECRs in Eurasian population demography and social organisation of the past! Share your research at our inaugural HAAM-Tasting Webinar with invited speakers Maïté Rivollat and Tiina Mattila. Submit your application before Feb 15th for a chance to present‼️.Please RT🔁.
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RT @HaraldRingbauer: ancIBD is published now! 🧬💀. Our tool brings accurate IBD detection to aDNA. We show that this….
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Yesterday, the @ACAD_Research_ Post-Doctoral research team presented a tag-team talk at the @AustEvolSoc conference at @UniofAdelaide about “Recent Advances in Ancient DNA”. 📷: @DALewis_ArchSci
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It was a great week in Tartu for #ISBA10 .🇪🇪 Heaps of interesting talks, posters and people! So glad to have the chance to give a talk and present a poster! See you in Turin in 2025!
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