Christina Balentine

Anthropological geneticist studying human adaptation & population history through a biocultural lens. Postdoc @UConnAnthro. Dancer, crafter, cat mom. 😸 She/her

[Christina Balentine @CMBalentine]

ICYMI -- The recording of my presentation on How Humans Thrive in Extreme Environments has been posted! Watch it here: https://t.co/kd2tAVSR1F

Thanks again for hosting me, @NMNH @HumanOrigins!

[Dr. Krystal Tsosie, PhD, MPH @kstsosie]

This was a historic moment. The largest convening of #Indigenous geneticists, data scientists, physicians to include other national leaders at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's science think tank, the Banbury Institute @cshlbanbury, to discuss Indigenous reference #genomes and implications:

[Dr. Maria A Nieves-Colón @mitoPR]

Our study investigating the genetic ancestries of Afro-Puerto Ricans is now published in @AmJBioAnth! This work was led by @sankofadna & done in collaboration w/COPI 🇵🇷💃🏿: https://t.co/3VtCr0fWbj (1/n ) https://t.co/FZ6l7JrrqD

[Barrett Klein @pupating]

Visualizing Science! I'm holding a series of free, online workshops, thanks to Johns Hopkins University. All are welcome! I plan to have fun with Danielle VanBrabant, Damond Kyllo, and Amey Zhang to introduce visualization topics and challenges. No art experience is necessary.

[StoneLab_ASU @StoneLab_ASU]

Great to see all the lab members past & present at #AABA2024 !!!

[Smithsonian NMNH @NMNH]

New research using the pelt of “Mutton,” the only known woolly dog fleece in the world, sheds light on the ancestry and genetics of woolly dogs, a now extinct breed of dog that was a fixture of Indigenous Coast Salish communities for millennia. https://t.co/neaaXjYCQ8

[Natasha Glover @Gloveface]

ICYMI, here’s our recipe for DNA extraction from bananas, using everyday household items: 🍌+🚰+🧼 +🧂+🍸 = 🧬 . Worked like a charm at @pintofscienceCH!

[Rick W. A. Smith @rickwasmith]

Fantastic #AABA2023 panel organized by @smaspellssam and @BioAnthFunFacts, one of my favorites ever at the AABAs - “Queering research: uses of LGBTQIA+ perspectives and queer theory in
biological anthropology”.

[Dr. Maria A Nieves-Colón @mitoPR]

Great work by @dna_historical covered by the AP!

[Science Under The Stars @sci_under_stars]

For our second talk of the semester, please join Tristan Kubik at 7pm, March 9 for a leavenly evening as he relates one of the world’s lesser-known love stories, a tale of deliberate food spoilage we affectionately refer to as fermentation! More information at link in bio 🧀🍺

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

My mom sent me some papers that belonged to my grandfather, Darwin Randall Crum, which included a collection of “Disfrustrating Puzzles” he created

[Havird Lab @HavirdLab]

Please spread the word! We have an amazing REU Program focused on Biodiversity Science! Fieldwork, collections-based research, organisms... and to boot amazing mentors! Help spread the word to your undergrads!
https://t.co/SJJ5bAh2WC

[Christina Balentine @CMBalentine]

@PaleoFeathers @AWRgenes @miguelgvilar @rickwasmith @smaspellssam @DeborahBolnick Thank you!!

[Christina Balentine @CMBalentine]

2nd diss chapter done! Thanks to all involved, researchers & descendent community members alike. W/Marta Alfonso-Durruty, @AWRgenes, @miguelgvilar, Flavia Morello, Manuel San Román, Lauren Springs, @rickwasmith, @smaspellssam, Jaime Mata-Míguez, Natalie Wing, & @DeborahBolnick 1/

[Miguel Vilar @miguelgvilar]

Our new Ancient DNA paper is finally out. Congratulations to this great team!
Evaluating population histories in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, Chile, using ancient mitochondrial and Y‐chromosomal DNA https://t.co/DnGSj56Idr

[Christina Balentine @CMBalentine]

DM or email me at [email protected] for a copy of the PDF, or read the full text here: https://t.co/9hqBnxRs7n 3/3

[Christina Balentine @CMBalentine]

Briefly, in Fuego-Patagonia (Chile), marine forager’s comparatively recent archaeological record suggest they could descend from earlier terrestrial groups. This new aDNA data indicates the two groups are discrete lineages who independently moved into the region. 2/

[GenSCAPE (aka Raghavan) Lab 🧬 @GenSCAPE_Lab]

Check out Esha's poster PB2812 on ancient genomics in Northeast India! #ASHG22 🎉🧬

[Science Under The Stars @sci_under_stars]

Our November talk is right around the corner! Xinyi Yan will talk about what soil microbiomes are and why they are important to our world @ 8 pm on November 10, BFL. Join us at 7 pm for kid's activities, natural history displays, and a tour of the field lab! (1/)

[Christina Balentine @CMBalentine]

Question for #aDNA folks! I'm looking to download the bams from older papers (eg Raghavan et al 2015) that say they're available at what is now the CBS legacy server. Does anyone know where these data are stored now? Checking here before I email the corresponding authors. Thanks!

[Dr Adam Rutherford @AdamRutherford]

Geneticist here. You can’t make facial profiles or accurate pigmentation predictions from DNA, and this is dangerous snake oil.