🚨 Save the Date!
We’re thrilled to announce #SPAAM8 – a gathering of experts in ancient metagenomics research! 🌎
📅 When: June 22nd 2026
📍Where: Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 (and online)
Stay tuned for updates and registration details!
#aDNA
Recovering Mycobacterium tuberculosis 🦠 from ancient samples is notoriously difficult. But, in this new study, the elusive M. tuberculosis DNA was detected in five individuals from medieval Ireland - the first molecular evidence of TB in the region.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2025.102710
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #paleogenomics #tuberculosis #TB #pathogen #genomics
🚨 Dear SPAAM Community, we are extending the deadline for the Blog Post Competition 📝. The new date is March 16th 2026! We have received some exciting submissions. 📢 Keep it coming!
https://www.spaam-community.org/news/2025/11/25/blog-post-competition/
#aDNA #SPAAM #sciencecommunication #blog #ancientDNA #metagenomics #paleogenetics #writingcompetition
The Altai wasn’t just home to Denisovans. 🏔️🧬Ancient DNA revealed unexpected bovine diversity 🦬, including a mysterious yak-like lineage (yak "X") now seemingly lost to time.
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/17/11/evaf206/8315343
#MetagenomicsMonday #ancientDNA #aDNA #paleogenomics #zooarchaeology #denisovacave #altai #yak
How and when did domestic cats conquer the world? 🐈 The aDNA study recently published in Science tells a fascinating story about the human-mediated dispersal of our purring furry friends.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adt2642
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #paleogenomics #cats #zooarcheology #domestication
REMINDER 🚨🚨🚨 The SPAAM Community is thrilled to announce our first-ever blog post
competition!
You will not only get a chance of having your post featured on the SPAAM website
but also win a mystery book prize!
For more info and how to submit visit:
https://www.spaam-community.org/news/2025/11/25/blog-post-competition/
#SPAAM #aDNA #writingcontest #sciencecommunication #paleogenomics
Check out this new paper on the inter-species admixture 🧬 within an extinct and yummy-sounding avian species 🦜 - the honeycreeper! 🍯
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0265
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #paleogenomics #museumscience #avian #honeycreeper
🚨 New release of AncientMetagenomeDir! (v25.12.0, Historic Centre of Sighişoara)
https://github.com/SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir/releases/tag/v25.12.0
It's a community resource of #metadata of >2K shotgun-sequenced #AncientMetagenome or ancient microbial genome enriched samples & >5K libraries. Stats below:
📈 Release v25.12.0:
📚 216 (+5) publications
🧬 1733 (+28) ancient host-associated metagenome samples
🦠 813 (+3) ancient microbial genomes
🌅 803 (+0) ancient environmental samples
New packages in the community-archive:
2026_Golubinski_Maslomecz (v1.0.0)
https://github.com/poseidon-framework/community-archive #aDNA #OpenData
Guðjónsdóttir et al. sequenced the genome of a >14kya old woolly rhino from muscle found inside a permafrost-preserved wolf's stomach. Demographic inference suggests a rapid extinction for the woolly rhino.
Dreaming of a de novo assembly of your pesky short ancient sequences? 🧬 A new tool, CarpeDeam, may just help your dreams come true. 🧬🖥️
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-025-03839-5
#MetagenomicsMonday #ancientDNA #aDNA #paleogenomics #bioinformatics
We are excited to share with you the latest SPAAM Newsletter!
Inside, you’ll find:
- announcements about upcoming events and workshops
- funding and research opportunities worth exploring
- highlights of the latest publications in ancient metagenomics
https://www.spaam-community.org/assets/media/SPAAM_newsletter_8.html
We hope you enjoy this edition and look forward to staying connected with you!
#SPAAM #aDNA #Newsletter #paleogenomics #metagenomics
The SPAAM Community is thrilled to announce our first-ever blog post competition!
You will not only get a chance of having your post featured on the SPAAM website but also win a mystery book prize!
For more info and how to submit visit: https://www.spaam-community.org/news/2025/11/25/blog-post-competition/
#SPAAM #aDNA #writingcontest #sciencecommunication #paleogenomics
New packages in the community-archive:
2024_Wang_ViennaBasinAvarPeriod (v1.1.0)
https://github.com/poseidon-framework/community-archive #aDNA #OpenData
New packages in the community-archive:
2024_Penske_Leubingen (v1.0.0)
https://github.com/poseidon-framework/community-archive #aDNA #OpenData
Starting 2026 strong with the first #MetagenomicsMonday 🧬post this year! Its 1976, deer remains are found in a Toronto subway and its antlers look.. well, different! 🦌 Is it an extinct megafauna species that disappeared by the end of ice age? Check out the paper by Kessler et al., 📄🧬
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0497
#SPAAM #aDNA #paleogenomics #megafauna #deer
What really devastated Napoleon’s army in 1812? ⚔️🧬 A new study uncovers DNA of previously unsuspected pathogens: Salmonella Paratyphi C and Borrelia recurrentis in the teeth of fallen soldiers. Seems like fever fuelled the catastrophic retreat of the army from Russia.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.09.047
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #pathogens #fever #Napoleon
Metagenomic screening of 14 Roman cattle from Vilauba uncovers Group I Clostridium related to toxigenic botulinum producers, plus an opportunistic Mycolicibacterium. 🐂🧬 These overlooked taxa may represent a blind spot in ancient livestock health studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2025.2580731
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #bioarchaeology #botulinum #pathogens
New video of talk by @christinawarinner.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy given at Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny posted by @ucsandiego.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy explaining how advances in #aDNA and #proteomics can investigate the complex and diverse microbial communities from dental calculus
CARTA: Human Microbiome Evolut...
What ancient genomes can tell about East #Asian population dynamics over 160,000 years...
'highlighting three waves of archaic introgression and extensive population admixtures'
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-025-03859-1
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