Announcements

Read a summary of our study on the evolution of the human oral microbiome! Available in the following languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Amharic, Catalan, Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Gamo, Italian, Russian, Slovak, and Serbian.

A big congratulations to James Fellows-Yates for coordinating our efforts to make our ancient DNA protocols open and available on the repository Protocols.io! The compilation “A-Z of ancient DNA protocols for shotgun Illumina Next Generation […]

Altai Pastoralism Project Funded by National Geographic Society and Wenner-Gren Foundation The Rise of Altai Mountain Pastoralism Project (RAMPP) will investigate the enigmatic Afanasievo culture in the Altai region and the spread of dairying and […]

A big congratulations to PhD student Zandra Fagernäs for winning the FEMS Microbiology Oral Presentation Prize for Early Career Scientists! Zandra’s presentation on the “Biogeography of the Ancient Oral Cavity” was selected based on “excellence […]

The Buryad version of the coloring book is now available! Thank you so much to Jargal Badagarov for generously translating the coloring book.

Excited to announce a new collaboration with the Max Plack Institute for the History of Science on the medical history of lactose intolerance and its complex relationship with politics, genes, and microbes!

We are so happy to release two new albums from our dairy ethnographic work: Songs From the Mongolian Steppe, 4 tracks A collection of songs sung by our collaborators in rural Mongolia. Listen on Sound […]

We are so thrilled to release a short film about the prehistory, present, and future of Eurasian dairying based on our 2019 “Microbes on the Move – A Travelling Conference in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan”! Special […]

The Macedonian version of the coloring book is now available! Thank you so much to Bojana Stojanova for generously translating the coloring book.

Join our PhD student Zandra Fagernäs on September 19th from 2pm-5pm in Berlin at Washington Platz for a Soapbox Science event on what you can learn from ancient dental calculus and paleofeces!