Eugenia D'Atanasio
@eugeniadat.bsky.social
Researcher at CNR 🇮🇹 | Human pop genetics 🧬 | ancient DNA 🦷 | African populations and the Green Sahara 🏝️ | ancient Italian people from Iron Age to Medieval 🏺🗡️
Trustee of the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA) https://www.isbarch.org/
Trustee of the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA) https://www.isbarch.org/
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A new perspective on the arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean genetic influx in Central Italy before the onset of the Roman Empire
Abstract. Italian genetic history was profoundly shaped by the Romans. While the Iron Age Central Italian gene pool was comparable to that of other coeval
doi.org
🚨 New paper out in Genome Biology and Evolution!
We present new ancient DNA evidence from Central Italy suggesting that Eastern Mediterranean genetic influence predates the Roman Empire.
@beniamino77.bsky.social @fravasini.bsky.social
🧵👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
1/
We present new ancient DNA evidence from Central Italy suggesting that Eastern Mediterranean genetic influence predates the Roman Empire.
@beniamino77.bsky.social @fravasini.bsky.social
🧵👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
1/
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
The Animal #aDNA Research Community is looking for new members to its steering committee!
If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe.
@aarc-community.bsky.social
If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe.
@aarc-community.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The Animal #aDNA Research Community is looking for new members to its steering committee!
If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe.
@aarc-community.bsky.social
If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe.
@aarc-community.bsky.social
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴
Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics!
June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm.
Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)!
Submit abstracts here 👉
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/
Deadline: Nov 30th
Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics!
June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm.
Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)!
Submit abstracts here 👉
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/
Deadline: Nov 30th
October 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴
Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics!
June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm.
Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)!
Submit abstracts here 👉
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/
Deadline: Nov 30th
Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics!
June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm.
Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)!
Submit abstracts here 👉
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/
Deadline: Nov 30th
Great work from a great researcher and friend! @bbonucci.bsky.social ❤️
@microarch-lab.bsky.social was lucky enough to host and work with @bbonucci.bsky.social this summer. Checkout her recent publication on retrieving #ancientDNA from concretions from human remains!
🚨Thrilled to share our new paper!!
We were able to retrieve ancient DNA and proteins from layers of sediment attached to the skeletal remains of individuals from a Neolithic site from Southern Italy 💀🧬🦠
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
We were able to retrieve ancient DNA and proteins from layers of sediment attached to the skeletal remains of individuals from a Neolithic site from Southern Italy 💀🧬🦠
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
September 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Great work from a great researcher and friend! @bbonucci.bsky.social ❤️
Congrats to @fravasini.bsky.social, @beniamino77.bsky.social and all the coauthors! 🎉
🧬 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "DNPcall: A new pipeline for accurate double nucleotide polymorphism calling"
Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf209
Authors include: @eugeniadat.bsky.social
Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf209
Authors include: @eugeniadat.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Congrats to @fravasini.bsky.social, @beniamino77.bsky.social and all the coauthors! 🎉
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.
August 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
@fravasini.bsky.social @beniamino77.bsky.social @eugeniadat.bsky.social et al. leverage the genome of a new Roman Republic human individual, proposing a novel perspective for Eastern Mediterranean ancestry in the Imperial gene pool.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf149
#genome #evolution #humanevolution
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf149
#genome #evolution #humanevolution
August 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
@fravasini.bsky.social @beniamino77.bsky.social @eugeniadat.bsky.social et al. leverage the genome of a new Roman Republic human individual, proposing a novel perspective for Eastern Mediterranean ancestry in the Imperial gene pool.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf149
#genome #evolution #humanevolution
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf149
#genome #evolution #humanevolution
🏖️ On vacation, but still excited about my latest paper! 🧬
📌 Sharing it again in case it slipped past your feed 👇
✍️ Looking forward to diving into the details once I’m back!
#AcademicSky #imputation #NIPS #PGS #PopulationGenetics #QUILT
📌 Sharing it again in case it slipped past your feed 👇
✍️ Looking forward to diving into the details once I’m back!
#AcademicSky #imputation #NIPS #PGS #PopulationGenetics #QUILT
🚨 Excited to share my new paper! We imputed 32,769 ultra-low coverage genomes from #NIPS 🫃and show how our custom filtering (GDI) impacts ancestry and PGS analyses. Big thanks to the team behind this long and rewarding work! 🧬
📝 Now on @genomeresearch.bsky.social 👇
genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...
📝 Now on @genomeresearch.bsky.social 👇
genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...
July 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
📝 New research rewrites Roman genetic history: Eastern Mediterranean ancestry appeared 200 years before the Empire, likely via early East to West movements in the Late Republic through Southern Italy or Eastern ties
@eugeniadat.bsky.social 🧬 #AcademicSky 👇
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
@eugeniadat.bsky.social 🧬 #AcademicSky 👇
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
A new perspective on the arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean genetic influx in Central Italy before the onset of the Roman Empire
Abstract. Italian genetic history was profoundly shaped by the Romans. While the Iron Age Central Italian gene pool was comparable to that of other coeval
academic.oup.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
📝 New research rewrites Roman genetic history: Eastern Mediterranean ancestry appeared 200 years before the Empire, likely via early East to West movements in the Late Republic through Southern Italy or Eastern ties
@eugeniadat.bsky.social 🧬 #AcademicSky 👇
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
@eugeniadat.bsky.social 🧬 #AcademicSky 👇
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
🚨 New paper out in Genome Biology and Evolution!
We present new ancient DNA evidence from Central Italy suggesting that Eastern Mediterranean genetic influence predates the Roman Empire.
@beniamino77.bsky.social @fravasini.bsky.social
🧵👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
1/
We present new ancient DNA evidence from Central Italy suggesting that Eastern Mediterranean genetic influence predates the Roman Empire.
@beniamino77.bsky.social @fravasini.bsky.social
🧵👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
1/
A new perspective on the arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean genetic influx in Central Italy before the onset of the Roman Empire
Abstract. Italian genetic history was profoundly shaped by the Romans. While the Iron Age Central Italian gene pool was comparable to that of other coeval
doi.org
July 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🚨 New paper out in Genome Biology and Evolution!
We present new ancient DNA evidence from Central Italy suggesting that Eastern Mediterranean genetic influence predates the Roman Empire.
@beniamino77.bsky.social @fravasini.bsky.social
🧵👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
1/
We present new ancient DNA evidence from Central Italy suggesting that Eastern Mediterranean genetic influence predates the Roman Empire.
@beniamino77.bsky.social @fravasini.bsky.social
🧵👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
1/
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
Turns out imputation of introgressed archaic regions in aDNA works really well — sometimes even better than for the rest of the genome. More on this (and other cool results) in our new preprint 👇 #aDNA #ArchaicIntrogression #imputation
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Archaic ancestry inference in imputed ancient human genomes
When modern humans expanded from Africa into Eurasia, they interbred with archaic hominins such as Neanderthals and Denisovans. This groundbreaking discovery, made in part possible through the genomic...
doi.org
July 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Turns out imputation of introgressed archaic regions in aDNA works really well — sometimes even better than for the rest of the genome. More on this (and other cool results) in our new preprint 👇 #aDNA #ArchaicIntrogression #imputation
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
🎶📣 Registration is now open for our #HAAMmeeting in Turin 🏛️ & online 💻
link: forms.gle/6eR2GPkM2fuE...
📅 Closes 23rd of August
❗Registration to attend via ZOOM is required!
link: forms.gle/6eR2GPkM2fuE...
📅 Closes 23rd of August
❗Registration to attend via ZOOM is required!
July 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
🎶📣 Registration is now open for our #HAAMmeeting in Turin 🏛️ & online 💻
link: forms.gle/6eR2GPkM2fuE...
📅 Closes 23rd of August
❗Registration to attend via ZOOM is required!
link: forms.gle/6eR2GPkM2fuE...
📅 Closes 23rd of August
❗Registration to attend via ZOOM is required!
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📢 Registration Now Open for SPAAM7!
Join as for the pre-ISBA hybrid event, to be held on August 26th, 2025,in Turin, Italy 🇮🇹
Check out our preliminary program 🧬🦠
🔗 Register by the 30th of July using this link!!
forms.gle/6jiHhCKFk3Qh...
We look forward to seeing you (In person or via zoom)! 🔥🔥
Join as for the pre-ISBA hybrid event, to be held on August 26th, 2025,in Turin, Italy 🇮🇹
Check out our preliminary program 🧬🦠
🔗 Register by the 30th of July using this link!!
forms.gle/6jiHhCKFk3Qh...
We look forward to seeing you (In person or via zoom)! 🔥🔥
July 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
📢 Registration Now Open for SPAAM7!
Join as for the pre-ISBA hybrid event, to be held on August 26th, 2025,in Turin, Italy 🇮🇹
Check out our preliminary program 🧬🦠
🔗 Register by the 30th of July using this link!!
forms.gle/6jiHhCKFk3Qh...
We look forward to seeing you (In person or via zoom)! 🔥🔥
Join as for the pre-ISBA hybrid event, to be held on August 26th, 2025,in Turin, Italy 🇮🇹
Check out our preliminary program 🧬🦠
🔗 Register by the 30th of July using this link!!
forms.gle/6jiHhCKFk3Qh...
We look forward to seeing you (In person or via zoom)! 🔥🔥
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
Excited about microbes, ancient DNA, methods and meeting other fellow researchers??
Join us in Turin!! 🔥
#aDNA #metagenomics #SPAAM7
Join us in Turin!! 🔥
#aDNA #metagenomics #SPAAM7
📢 Registration Now Open for SPAAM7!
Join as for the pre-ISBA hybrid event, to be held on August 26th, 2025,in Turin, Italy 🇮🇹
Check out our preliminary program 🧬🦠
🔗 Register by the 30th of July using this link!!
forms.gle/6jiHhCKFk3Qh...
We look forward to seeing you (In person or via zoom)! 🔥🔥
Join as for the pre-ISBA hybrid event, to be held on August 26th, 2025,in Turin, Italy 🇮🇹
Check out our preliminary program 🧬🦠
🔗 Register by the 30th of July using this link!!
forms.gle/6jiHhCKFk3Qh...
We look forward to seeing you (In person or via zoom)! 🔥🔥
July 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Excited about microbes, ancient DNA, methods and meeting other fellow researchers??
Join us in Turin!! 🔥
#aDNA #metagenomics #SPAAM7
Join us in Turin!! 🔥
#aDNA #metagenomics #SPAAM7
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
ArchEvo project has been funded by @researchireland.ie Pathway at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, @tcddublin.bsky.social to study #archaic-introgression in #aDNA💀! Thanks to my mentor Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, collaborators Flora Jay & Léo Planche and the PhD student Martina. We’re ready to start!🚀
June 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
ArchEvo project has been funded by @researchireland.ie Pathway at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, @tcddublin.bsky.social to study #archaic-introgression in #aDNA💀! Thanks to my mentor Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, collaborators Flora Jay & Léo Planche and the PhD student Martina. We’re ready to start!🚀
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
Dogs? Dogs dogs dogs.
South American dogs? Ancient South American dogs?
Lots and lots of Ancient South American Dogs!
Huge effort by so many great people!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
South American dogs? Ancient South American dogs?
Lots and lots of Ancient South American Dogs!
Huge effort by so many great people!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Dogs? Dogs dogs dogs.
South American dogs? Ancient South American dogs?
Lots and lots of Ancient South American Dogs!
Huge effort by so many great people!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
South American dogs? Ancient South American dogs?
Lots and lots of Ancient South American Dogs!
Huge effort by so many great people!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
⏰ - Less than 100 days until our first (virtual) HAAM-meeting during the @isbarchaeology.bsky.social symposium in Turin 🇮🇹 ✅ check out our website and feel free to submit your abstract for a flash talk at our meeting: tinyurl.com/haam-meeting...
#aDNA #ISBA #conference #humanDNA #popgen
#aDNA #ISBA #conference #humanDNA #popgen
May 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
⏰ - Less than 100 days until our first (virtual) HAAM-meeting during the @isbarchaeology.bsky.social symposium in Turin 🇮🇹 ✅ check out our website and feel free to submit your abstract for a flash talk at our meeting: tinyurl.com/haam-meeting...
#aDNA #ISBA #conference #humanDNA #popgen
#aDNA #ISBA #conference #humanDNA #popgen
🚨 Excited to share our new paper! 🧬 #aDNA from Sint-Truiden (BE) reveals 1,000 years of change from diverse medieval roots including Scottish and Irish ancestry to modern Limburg-like genetics. 🧫 Yersinia pestis found in 5 of 58 XIV-century burials. #AcademicSky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Urbanization and genetic homogenization in the medieval Low Countries revealed through a ten-century paleogenomic study of the city of Sint-Truiden - Genome Biology
Background Processes shaping the formation of the present-day population structure in highly urbanized Northern Europe are still poorly understood. Gaps remain in our understanding of when and how cur...
link.springer.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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We are pleased to announce that the early bird registration deadline has been extended to May 7th!
www.isba11.com/registration/
#archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA11 #archaeologists
@archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
www.isba11.com/registration/
#archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA11 #archaeologists
@archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
We are pleased to announce that the early bird registration deadline has been extended to May 7th!
www.isba11.com/registration/
#archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA11 #archaeologists
@archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
www.isba11.com/registration/
#archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA11 #archaeologists
@archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
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The 11th International Symposium for Biomolecular Archaeology, hosted in Turin 26-29 August 2025, is organised by the ArchaeoBiomics team at the University of Turin and the Musei Reali
#archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA11 #UNITO #MRT
@archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
#archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA11 #UNITO #MRT
@archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The 11th International Symposium for Biomolecular Archaeology, hosted in Turin 26-29 August 2025, is organised by the ArchaeoBiomics team at the University of Turin and the Musei Reali
#archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA11 #UNITO #MRT
@archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
#archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA11 #UNITO #MRT
@archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
The 11th International Symposium for Biomolecular Archaeology, hosted in Turin 26-29 August 2025, is organised at @unito by the following departments
#ISBA11
#ISBA11
April 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The 11th International Symposium for Biomolecular Archaeology, hosted in Turin 26-29 August 2025, is organised at @unito by the following departments
#ISBA11
#ISBA11
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The 11th International Symposium for Biomolecular Archaeology, hosted in Turin 26-29 August 2025, is organised at @unito has the pleasure of having the following patronages
#ISBA11
#ISBA11
April 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The 11th International Symposium for Biomolecular Archaeology, hosted in Turin 26-29 August 2025, is organised at @unito has the pleasure of having the following patronages
#ISBA11
#ISBA11
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
Check out our ancient DNA paper on the maritime Punic civilization! 🦴🧬🌊
We find that their Levantine Phoenician cultural ancestors contributed surprisingly little ancestry to Punic sites in the central and western Mediterranean! (1/4)
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#aDNA #PopGen #Punic #Phoenician
We find that their Levantine Phoenician cultural ancestors contributed surprisingly little ancestry to Punic sites in the central and western Mediterranean! (1/4)
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#aDNA #PopGen #Punic #Phoenician
April 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Check out our ancient DNA paper on the maritime Punic civilization! 🦴🧬🌊
We find that their Levantine Phoenician cultural ancestors contributed surprisingly little ancestry to Punic sites in the central and western Mediterranean! (1/4)
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#aDNA #PopGen #Punic #Phoenician
We find that their Levantine Phoenician cultural ancestors contributed surprisingly little ancestry to Punic sites in the central and western Mediterranean! (1/4)
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#aDNA #PopGen #Punic #Phoenician
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
🧬 The First Annual HAAM Meeting is coming on August 26, 2025 in Turin🇮🇹 (and online)!
✨ Flash talks, career panel & community updates.
📅 Submit your abstract for a flash talk by June 15
📢 We're looking for volunteers to join the organizing team
#HAAM #ISBA2025 @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
✨ Flash talks, career panel & community updates.
📅 Submit your abstract for a flash talk by June 15
📢 We're looking for volunteers to join the organizing team
#HAAM #ISBA2025 @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🧬 The First Annual HAAM Meeting is coming on August 26, 2025 in Turin🇮🇹 (and online)!
✨ Flash talks, career panel & community updates.
📅 Submit your abstract for a flash talk by June 15
📢 We're looking for volunteers to join the organizing team
#HAAM #ISBA2025 @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
✨ Flash talks, career panel & community updates.
📅 Submit your abstract for a flash talk by June 15
📢 We're looking for volunteers to join the organizing team
#HAAM #ISBA2025 @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
Our study analyzing the DNA of ~7ky-old Pastoralists from the "Green Sahara" is out! Who were these people, and how did herding spread into the region when the present-day desert was dotted with water bodies? 🧬🦴🏜️ (1/7)
#PopGen #GreenSahara #aDNA
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PopGen #GreenSahara #aDNA
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage - Nature
Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Our study analyzing the DNA of ~7ky-old Pastoralists from the "Green Sahara" is out! Who were these people, and how did herding spread into the region when the present-day desert was dotted with water bodies? 🧬🦴🏜️ (1/7)
#PopGen #GreenSahara #aDNA
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PopGen #GreenSahara #aDNA
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Eugenia D'Atanasio
🔍 Looking for research groups/institutes working with (ancient) human DNA. Check out our starter pack (continuously growing 🥜🌱🌿🌴)
link: go.bsky.app/S53sS5N
👋 Want to be added? - DM us.
#aDNA #humanPopGen #research
link: go.bsky.app/S53sS5N
👋 Want to be added? - DM us.
#aDNA #humanPopGen #research
March 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🔍 Looking for research groups/institutes working with (ancient) human DNA. Check out our starter pack (continuously growing 🥜🌱🌿🌴)
link: go.bsky.app/S53sS5N
👋 Want to be added? - DM us.
#aDNA #humanPopGen #research
link: go.bsky.app/S53sS5N
👋 Want to be added? - DM us.
#aDNA #humanPopGen #research