Everything I know about plague comes from giving ancient DNA lectures. I didn't expect to be updating them with 2026 cases...

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3-year #PhDposition at the @univie.ac.at within the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology to work on #ancientpathogen #aDNA! The starting date of the position is flexible, with a latest possible start in mid‑December 2026

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Our paper on the second plague pandemic is now finally published: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We present 11 new Y. pestis genomes from around Europe and introduce a new approach to refine the dating of ancient genomes that helped us to contextualize 75 plague genomes of the Second Pandemic.

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New Publication! New article by #HEASVienna member @meriamguellil.bsky.social et al. on 'A refined phylochronology of the second plague pandemic in Western Eurasia' #HEASPublications www.heas.at/research/pub...

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Bahnbrechende Entdeckung: 2.000 Jahre alte Herpesviren im menschlichen Genom 🧬🦠 Genomdaten bestätigen, dass bestimmte humane Herpesviren bereits vor tausenden Jahren Teil des menschlichen Genoms wurden. 🔬 Mehr dazu: ⤵️ www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...

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