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Elena Zavala
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Interested in ancient DNA and forensic science
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Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes?
Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :)

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Please reach out if you have any questions!
August 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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If you are masters student interested in forensic genetics - check out our course in Copenhagen!
Information for University of Copenhagen summer course on Forensic Genetics and Massively Parallel Sequencing.
January 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :)

Link for application:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
December 2, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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Wonderful to see so many new people here! :-)

Interested in sedaDNA, aDNA, or forensic genetics?
Join me in Copenhagen!
I'm hiring a PhD and a Postdoc to start in 2025. Application deadline 28 November
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...
PhD fellowship in Sediment DNA at the Department of Forensic Medicine
employment.ku.dk
November 15, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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We (Laurits Skov, Priya Moorjani and I) are very happy to share this preprint on the genetic history of India: 50,000 years of Evolutionary History of India: Insights from ~2,700 Whole Genome Sequences 🇮🇳🧬
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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February 21, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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Petition to urge Duke University not to close its herbarium ✍️
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#histsci #evobio #philsci 🌿🌍 #envhist 📜🧪
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
The decision by Duke University to close their herbarium is deeply concerning. Herbaria are not just repositories of plant specimens, they are living libraries of life on Earth. They hold the keys to ...
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February 17, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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50,000 years of Evolutionary History of India: Insights from ~2,700 Whole Genome Sequences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.15.580575v1
50,000 years of Evolutionary History of India: Insights from ~2,700 Whole Genome Sequences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.15.580575v1
India has been underrepresented in whole genome sequencing studies. We generated 2,762 high coverage
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February 17, 2024 at 10:34 AM
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We, Alan Izarraras Gomez and I, wrote a 'News and Views' on the latest Nakatsuka et al. (2023) paper discovering an ancient migration (around 5,200 years old) from Northwest Mexico to California that likely spread a language family in California: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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November 22, 2023 at 6:38 PM
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Happy to share our publication where we used <67mg of tooth dentine for both aDNA and C14 analysis!
t.co/1S73KFacwO
Chronological and genetic analysis of an Upper Palaeolithic female infant burial from Borsuka Cave, ...
Six infant human teeth and 112 animal tooth pendants from Borsuka Cave were identified as the oldest burial in Poland. However, uncertainties around t…
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December 1, 2023 at 7:53 PM