2017

2017-09-06 – Soon we will advertise two new positions in the group, for a PhD and Postdoc. The links to the advertisements will be posted as soon as they are available

2017-09-06 – Carina receive an ERC starting grant for the project: AfricanNeo, a project that aims to investigate the African Neolithic from a genetic perspective.

2017-08-21 to 2017-08-25 – Mario attends the popgen17 workshop at University of Copenhagen.

2017-08-24 – Our paper on the genetic history of Sudan and South Sudan is published in  PLoS Genetics.  Link

2017-08-17  – Carina presents a talk at the Sydney Brenner Institute in Johannesburg on ancient DNA in southern Africa

2017-08-13 to 2017-08-16  – Carina attends the 17th Biennial Congress of the Southern African Society for Human Genetics (SASHG 2017) in Durban (South Africa) and presents a keynote talk on the genetic history of Africa

2017-08-17  – Carina visit our collaborators, Koen Bostoen and Bernard Clist, at Ghent University and presents a talk on African history from a genetic perspective.

2017-06-05 – Our paper on ancient DNA genomes from southern Africa appears on  BioRxiv.  Link

2017-04-20 to 2017-06-01 – Armando Semo visit our group to work on a collaborative project with the Jorge Rocha Lab

2017-04-05 – Our paper on adaptation to infectious disease exposure in certain southern African San groups is published in Proc Royal Soc B.  Link

2017-04-19 to 2017-04-22  – Mario attends the 86th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in New Orleans and presents a poster on our collaborative work with Peter Ebbesen

2017-02-1 to 2017-0-28 –  Dhriti Sengupta visit our group to work on a collaborative project with Michele Ramsay’s group