Janet Kelso

Genomics, bioinformatics, ancient DNA. 🇿🇦 Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.

[Melike Dönertaş @melikedonertas]

#AMC2025 is almost here (Oct 28–29, Jena) and we’ve opened a few more seats! If you work on host-microbiome interactions, aging, or age-related diseases, bring a poster and join this amazing crowd!

✨ Highlights
🗣️ Keynotes: Karine Clément, Niranjan Nagarajan (online), Gianni Panagiotou
🗣️ Invited talks: Eran Blacher, Reena Debray, Daniel Erny, Christoph Kaleta, Yvonne Nolan, Veronica Witte, Bahtiyar Yilmaz
🗣️ Fantastic selected talks from abstracts
📊 Interactive poster sessions
🤝 Networking & “Meet the Speaker” sessions
🔭 “Voyager” dome show at the Zeiss-Planetarium Jena
🍴 Conference dinner with integrated networking
🥇 Awards for best poster, talk, and “top connector”
💼 Sponsor interactions + sponsor bingo

Late registration + poster submissions remain open until we hit capacity.
👉 Register: https://t.co/VKssNCXILl
👉 Full program: https://t.co/j26apjuQ6j

#Microbiome #Aging #Ageing #SystemsBiology #Metagenomics #Neuroscience #AMC2025 #Jena @dariovalenzano_ @CorreiaMeloC @katarzyna_winek

[Janet Kelso @jfkelso]

@Ella_AlShamahi Congratulations - well deserved praise!

[Janet Kelso @jfkelso]

@Linda_Ongaro @NatureGenet @emiliahsc Congratulations and thank you! Great review

[Janet Kelso @jfkelso]

@cas_lmu @Nitin_Phadnis @RhondaSnook1 @HildeSchneemann I really enjoyed the workshop. Thank you for the invitation to join!

[Max Planck Society @maxplanckpress]

Calling all emerging scientists - it’s time to send us an application! 😉😎 Lead your own #MaxPlanck Research Group w/ €2.7M in funding over 6 yrs, full independence & resources to hire staff. State-of-the-art infrastructure awaits you!🌟 Apply today➡️https://t.co/cHxPLyRj9x

[Janet Kelso @jfkelso]

“Bienvenue à Montréal” @bffo welcomes #ISMB2024 attendees!

[Stephane Peyregne @StephPeyregne]

Check out Yaniv's fantastic preprint revealing that reference bias is the major source of branch length variation in human Y chromosome lineages: https://t.co/P7AZKM0BUX

[Janet Kelso @jfkelso]

@40PercentGerman Our son aged about 2 was given a stuffed toy - a small red fox.
An English speaking colleague of mine asked him “Does your fox have a name?” and he replied “Keine” . Since none of us spoke German ….
18 years later the little fox still bears the name “Keine”

[Janet Kelso @jfkelso]

@EmmaSzewczak Leningrad - Billy Joel
Big in Japan - Alphaville
Summer in Berlin - Alphaville
One Night in Bangkok - Chess

[Janet Kelso @jfkelso]

Great thread from @IasiLeonardo on his new paper tracing the fate of Neanderthal introgressed DNA in the genomes of ancient modern humans spanning the last ~40,000 years

[Leonardo N. M. Iasi @IasiLeonardo]

In a collaboration between @M_Chintalapati ,@SkovLaurits , Alba Bosoms Mesa, @MatejaHajdi , @benmpeter and @moorjani_priya , we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 genomes spanning 50,000 years. A thread 🧵🧬
https://t.co/tMc8t46HSj

[MPI-EVA Leipzig @MPI_EVA_Leipzig]

DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means. The short answer: Usually not as much as you might think. Read more in this @ConversationUK piece by @ShaiCarmi & @HaraldRingbauer. https://t.co/YEjTcliRGX

[Isabelle Crevecoeur @ICrevecoeur]

Very proud to be part of this excellent German documentary "How do we know" on methods in #Archeology #Prehistory #HumanEvolution
If you are interested in what we do in Saint-Cesaire #RPB, and how we do it ?! ⬇️
https://t.co/3TUdi52mpy
@PACEA_Bordeaux
@PALEOSITE
@univbordeaux

[Janet Kelso @jfkelso]

@thesteinegger @iscb @SoedingL @StevenSalzberg1 @milot_mirdita Congratulations! 🍾🎉🎊

[Janet Kelso @jfkelso]

@KimTommy92 @Qafzeh @LeeRberger @Evo_Explorer @WrldOfPaleoAnth @CARTAUCSD @TheLeakeyFndtn @palaeo_prof @AdamRutherford has a new book called "Where Are You Really From?" which is great for kids

[MPI-EVA Leipzig @MPI_EVA_Leipzig]

📢📢📢 Apply by 31st December 2023! Join our vibrant research community @MPI_EVA_Leipzig or @UniLeipzig! Our Intl. Max Planck Research School The Leipzig School of Human Origins is offering PhD positions. Interested? Check it out! https://t.co/3PNHpDfw38 & https://t.co/3fetgcziHe

[Janet Kelso @jfkelso]

@AcadSciences @RayanChikhi @institutpasteur @CNRS @INSB_CNRS Congratulations, @RayanChikhi! So well deserved.

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[Janet Kelso @jfkelso]

@apragsdale @AdamRutherford @colinrtalbot And also Kuhlwim et al., 2016 that first described this signal of gene flow from an early modern human population into Neandertals.
What’s really new and interesting here is the analysis of subsequent selection on this introgressed DNA!

[Janet Kelso @jfkelso]

@StephPeyregne , @VivSlon and I decided to try and summarize everything we’ve learned about Denisovans since their discovery just over a decade ago. It started out as a Friday morning discussion group and grew into this review, Here’s to the next decade - so much still to learn!

[Nature Reviews Genetics @NatureRevGenet]

More than a decade of genetic research on the Denisovans https://t.co/aDmqHeWBBe #Review by @StephPeyregne, @VivSlon & @jfkelso @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @TelAvivUni

[Janet Kelso @jfkelso]

@ElenaEssel @ISBArchaeology So richly deserved! Congratulations!