marinasdsilva.bsky.social
Postdoc @crick.ac.uk | ancient genomics | from 🦴🦷👩🔬 to 🧬👩💻
👤 Joined on 30 October 2023
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@marinasdsilva.bsky.socialGroup picture at the SMBE satellite meeting - Campus of Architecture, University of Cagliari
Show PostA huge congratulations to Tessa Zeibig for her first dissertation publication about ancient parvovirus B19! It was such a pleasure to collaborate on this study!
Show PostOur 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.
Show PostFor those interested in the revolution happening rn in Iron Age studies, here’s my thinking on what the 🧬 science means when we incorporate the archaeology 🏺and the ancient history:
Show PostI hope this work helps highlight the importance of including historically underrepresented and marginalized populations in genomic research.
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