Announcements

A big congratulations to PhD student Eden Hill for successfully defending her dissertation, “Application of proteomics (ZooMS) to clarify zooarchaeological data and investigate the ancient animal economies of Inner Asia,” at the University of Tübingen!

Warinner lab undergraduate researcher Juliet Garon presented her summer research on protein preservation in early 20th century influenza and tuberculosis-infected medically prepared lung specimens. Giving a poster at the Harvard PRISE symposium, Juliet’s work is […]

Postdoc James Fellows Yates has won the Dawn Field Award for Outstanding Contributions to Genomic Standards at this year’s Genomics Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Cambridge, UK! The award is named after Dr. Dawn Field, […]

Want to learn more about the cutting edge of ancient microbial metagenomics and the evolutionary history of Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria? Join us this Thursday for I-Ting’s PhD defense on “Microbial evolution through the lens […]

The Department of Paleobiotechnology at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology held its annual retreat this year Ilmenau Pond Nature Reserve. We have a very exciting year of research and discoveries […]

The Department of Archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology celebrated its sixth annual retreat this summer at Ringberg Castle in Bavaria. With a focus on emerging areas of research and the future […]

The Nobel Symposium “Palaeogenomics: charting the future of ancient DNA” took place on 26-30 May 2025 at Villa Aske in Stockholm, Sweden and brought together leading experts to discuss the future of the field. Christina […]

A huge congratulations to undergraduate student Émilie Blondin who has been awarded the Paul Williams Scholarship to study the MPhil in Archaeological Science at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge! Emilie completed her senior honors thesis […]

Congratulations to Melina Seabrook for successfully defending her PhD thesis on “Know Thy Herd: The Lives of Sheep and Goats from Tepe Yahya, Iran, and the Benefits of Multi-Methodological Approaches” in the Department of Anthropology […]

I’m very happy to announce that in addition to my professorship in Anthropology at Harvard I have also joined the faculty of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology! I’m so excited to now have disciplinary […]