Amali Fernando

🇱🇰 Ph.D. student trying to figure stuff out. Mostly molecular anthropology.✌🏼🤓

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

@GenSCAPE_Lab @eshab05 Congratulations Esha!!

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

@eshab05 @aabiddanda @Conydelafc Congratulations 🥳

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

A new publication focusing on the indigenous population (Adivasi previously known as Vedda) of Sri Lanka provides evidence of a unique demographic within the Sri Lankan population.

The genetic identity of the Vedda: A language isolate of South Asia https://t.co/iw76kA0tcx

[Maanasa Raghavan @MaanasaRaghavan]

Happy to have contributed to this special issue on ancient DNA with @paleogenomics and @cschlebu. We 'go local with ancient DNA', reviewing 'human histories from regional perspectives'.

[Niraj Rai @NirajRai3]

We shares Genetic past with the SriLankans. Wow....Our First Genome-wide study on Sinhalese population suggest that North Indian affiliation to the Sinhalese population. It also traces the common root of Sinhalese and Marathas of India. @gyanc7
@IndiaDST https://t.co/ceAEVXHQux

[Michael Petraglia @MDPetraglia]

Major new paper #OutofAfrica:
Our analyses reveal a previously unsuspected extended period of genetic adaptation lasting ~30,000 y, potentially in #Arabia or surrounding regions, prior to a rapid #dispersal across the rest of Eurasia as far as #Australia.
https://t.co/bKkWxqT761

[Abdel Abdellaoui @dr_appie]

According to the biggest human family tree to date, computed from DNA from ~3,600 modern and ~3,600 ancient individuals, early humans originated in Sudan ~2 million years ago 🧬💀

- https://t.co/dNM9TQkRPw

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

The past week has been an amazing experience at the International Statistical Genetics workshop organised by the Institute for Behavioural Genetics of the University of Colorado Boulder.
#IBG #ISGworkshop

[Michael Petraglia @MDPetraglia]

"We reconstructed and evaluated the size and distribution of potential hunter-gatherer population changes from the LGM to the Early Holocene."
Thanks to my Chinese colleagues for leading the way! @ARCHE_Griffith
https://t.co/a2Ff0VNAcd

[Niraj Rai @NirajRai3]

Great grand mother of modern day South Asians.

Reconstructed face of Rakhigarhi women.

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

Here are 5 record-breaking science discoveries from 2022 https://t.co/8hD5bDjwSL

[Michael Petraglia @MDPetraglia]

Our findings are consistent with established models for the southward dispersal of Middle Nile Valley pastoral populations to the Rift Valley of eastern Africa, and provide a possible genetic source population for this dispersal.
https://t.co/ol6Rb2qFIL

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

@ARMathur91 Ofc 🙏🏼

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

My star struck moment!

At the start of my PhD I read a lot of his work to understand human migration routes and settlements. So it honestly was a star struck moment for me to meet him in person and have a wonderful chat.

Thanks for the wonderful time ⁦@MDPetraglia⁩ 🙏🏼

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

@_librarianship @brettvalle Completed ✅

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

Article can be freely accessed via this link
https://t.co/HS7kOJO7Ua

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

We are extremely excited to announce our work on the first ever aDNA mitochondrial sequences from Sri Lanka.
Especial thanks for ⁦@GenSCAPE_Lab⁩ for their continuous support 🙏🏼
#aDNA #SriLanka https://t.co/mkl5lN23Hv

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

@MatKarma @Shubawrite @NirajRai3 @sharmaheritage @MaanasaRaghavan you can access the paper via this link https://t.co/HS7kOJO7Ua

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

@AnchitBose @agenetics1 @NirajRai3 @MaanasaRaghavan you can get access to the article via this link https://t.co/HS7kOJvYG2

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

@Hyper_lexic @MDPetraglia the two samples were dated using environmental samples from the same layer.
UPG has a conventional age 8 680+/-30 BP, calibrated Cal. BP 9 695 to 9 545
ALG has a conventional age 4 630+/-30 BP., calibrated cal. BP 5 455 to 5 375

[Amali Fernando @amali__fernando]

@Ugra___ @GenSCAPE_Lab These two tooth samples were excavated from two cave sites (Udupiyangalge and Alugalge) in Sri Lanka. More details on the location and context are available on the article.
https://t.co/HS7kOJO7Ua