GenSCAPE (aka Raghavan) Lab 🧬

Genomic Studies of Contemporary & Ancient Populations and their Evolution Lab @ University of Chicago 🌎🌍🌏 (Tweets by @MaanasaRaghavan + Raghavan Lab members)

[SPAAM-community @spaam_community]

What did #ancient #viral #ecosystems look like? 🦠🧬 Sedimentary #aDNA from lakes and oceans reveals 2,000+ viral taxa and shows how #virus–host interactions changed from the #Pleistocene to today.
https://t.co/4RWxAEnaWq
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #sedaDNA

[GuangLin He @GuanglinH]

Complex peopling history and expansion events inferred from large-scale modern and ancient Y chromosome sequences | Science Advances https://t.co/N69LK5T01n

[Cesar Fortes-Lima @CesarFortesLima]

📢Our aDNA study has been published today in @NatureComms! A great collaboration with Ricardo RodríguezVarela, Anders Götherström, @cschlebu & team.
Analysis of medieval burials from Ibiza reveals genetic and pathogenic diversity during the Islamic period. https://t.co/Oe2j9WRBZx

[Carmina Barberena-Jonas 💛🍋🌻🌕✨ @BarjonCar]

Last month, I published part of my PhD thesis in @NatureMedicine : Clinical genetic variation across Hispanic populations in the Mexican Biobank.
🔗 https://t.co/yOmI7h2Ui4 ... and we got the cover of the February issue!

[Andres Moreno-Estrada @morestrada]

Second time the MX biobank project (https://t.co/qaLnfPzcz2) gets the cover in a @Nature journal! This time in @NatureMedicine highlighting the work by @BarjonCar on Clinical genetic variation in Mexico. Another amazing cover by @mauguz33! https://t.co/k3eGLX4809

[Andres Moreno-Estrada @morestrada]

Our paper on clinically relevant genetic variation in the MX Biobank is out today in @NatureMedicine! Big congrats to @BarjonCar, who led the development of the MexVar platform. A joint effort by @cinvestav @inspmx @incmnszmx @LIIGH_UNAM and @ucsc https://t.co/yBkIV83D9j

[Genetics Society of America @GeneticsGSA]

In #GENETICS, @JeremyJBerg et al. introduce an evolutionary model of complex disease susceptibility, where a variant's effect on disease risk follows from liability threshold model and a variant's effect on fitness follows from its effect on disease risk. https://t.co/rS84hWLNDL

[ERC Felix @felix_erc]

🚨 NEW pub in @ScienceMagazine !!! 🚨

🐈‍⬛🐈 The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2,000 years ago 🐈‍⬛🐈

Our article provides novel evidence suggesting new hypotheses about the history of domestic cats! 🧬

[Marco De Martino @_MarcoDeMartino]

After a four-year journey, my PhD work is out in @ScienceMagazine!
Endless gratitude to the amazing @felix_erc team, all coauthors and collaborators, and my loved ones. Without you all this could not be real! 💛🐱✨
@ERC_Research @NatGeo @unitorvergata2 #aDNA

[Gaceta UNAM @Gaceta_UNAM]

Carla Daniela Robles Espinoza, coordinadora del @LIIGH_UNAM, nos comparte su experiencia de hacer el doctorado en el Reino Unido… #AlumniUK ➡️ https://t.co/NwIlwADhka

[Esha Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D. @eshab05]

✨Thrilled to share that the first chapter of my Ph.D. thesis is NOW OUT in Science Advances (https://t.co/juaUqhvwz4)! ✨🥳🎉 🧬. This couldn't have been possible without the support of everyone involved @MaanasaRaghavan @NirajRai3 @Conydelafc @mootspoints and others.

[GenSCAPE (aka Raghavan) Lab 🧬 @GenSCAPE_Lab]

6/n This study could not have been possible without the incredible support of the local communities in Himachal Pradesh, our archaeological collaborators, and every co-author who made this work possible - Thank you all! 🥳

[GenSCAPE (aka Raghavan) Lab 🧬 @GenSCAPE_Lab]

1/n Delighted to share our newly published work in Science Advances, investigating human genetic histories at the northern frontier of the Himalayas 🧬🏔️: https://t.co/EjIgxnAgnT

[GenSCAPE (aka Raghavan) Lab 🧬 @GenSCAPE_Lab]

5/n This study provides first insights into the admixture dynamics and adaptive histories at the northern frontier of the Himalayas.

[Niraj Rai @NirajRai3]

Happy to announce our article published in Science Advances on the population history of Himalaya. For the first time, high-quality ancient DNA data have been successfully obtained, marking a significant advance in aDNA research in India. @MaanasaRaghavan
https://t.co/rMBs25GCjo

[Centre for Palaeogenetics @CpgSthlm]

🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴

Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics!

June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm.

Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ posters)!

Submit abstracts here 👉
https://t.co/lCaQHcX9GT

Deadline: Nov 30

[Viridiana Villa Islas @VVillaIslas]

My poster presentation, thanks to the photographers team #SMBE2025