Announcements

On April 28, 2026, Christina Warinner was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences! A big congratulations to all the new members of the National Academy of Sciences!

The Kyrgyz translation of the coloring book is now available! Thank you so much to Saltanat Alisher kyzy for making the coloring book available in Kyrgzy!

Harvard PhD student Percy Ho has won a Harvard GSAS Merit Research Fellowship for his project on the prehistoric dispersal of domesticated sheep in Asia. He will work closely with our collaborators Prof. Choongwon Jeong […]

A very big congratulations to microbiology postdoc Dr. Akari Shinoda for being selected for a tenure-track professorship at Okayama University! Way to go Akari – we are so proud of you! Akari will continue her […]

I am happy to announce a 2-year postdoc opening up in my group at the MPI-EVA on Ancient Metagenomics and Microbiome Sciences! I am looking for candidates who are excited to push the boundaries of […]

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 […]