Laurits Skov
@lauritsskov.bsky.social
I study Neanderthals, Denisovans and the effect of their DNA surviving in present day humans. Assistant professor at section for molecular ecology and evolution at Globe Institute Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Announcing SimHumanity, a baseline SLiM 5.0 model of the full human genome, replete with demographic history, autosomes, X/Y, and mtDNA. A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations. We’d love your feedback! #SLiM #evolution #genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
SimHumanity: Using SLiM 5.0 to run whole-genome simulations of human evolution
The reconstruction of human evolutionary history has undergone repeated advances, each made possible by methodological innovations. In recent decades, genetic and genomic data played a central role in...
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September 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Announcing SimHumanity, a baseline SLiM 5.0 model of the full human genome, replete with demographic history, autosomes, X/Y, and mtDNA. A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations. We’d love your feedback! #SLiM #evolution #genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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!
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
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!
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!
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Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at the University of Zurich! Application deadline: June 30. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions!
May 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at the University of Zurich! Application deadline: June 30. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions!
We ( @zeniabaek.bsky.social @moicoll.bsky.social and @asgerhobolth.bsky.social ) present a new cool way to visualize the optimal trade off for hmm decoding called Artemis plots!
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
We ( @zeniabaek.bsky.social @moicoll.bsky.social and @asgerhobolth.bsky.social ) present a new cool way to visualize the optimal trade off for hmm decoding called Artemis plots!
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Very excited to be part of two manuscripts which are now on biorxiv!
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Archaic humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct but their DNA lives on in many humans today because our ancestors met and had children with them.
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Archaic humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct but their DNA lives on in many humans today because our ancestors met and had children with them.
arxiv.org
May 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Very excited to be part of two manuscripts which are now on biorxiv!
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Archaic humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct but their DNA lives on in many humans today because our ancestors met and had children with them.
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Archaic humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct but their DNA lives on in many humans today because our ancestors met and had children with them.
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Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan
Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...
doi.org
April 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Two weeks left to apply (Jan 15) for postdoc (2.5 years) in population genetics of the Paleolithic in my group in Aarhus, Denmark. It is an interdisciplinary project with Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, and a new postdoc in his group covering archaeology. Apply using tinyurl.com/4jt4dru4
Postdoctoral position in population genomics of the palaeolithic - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University
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January 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Two weeks left to apply (Jan 15) for postdoc (2.5 years) in population genetics of the Paleolithic in my group in Aarhus, Denmark. It is an interdisciplinary project with Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, and a new postdoc in his group covering archaeology. Apply using tinyurl.com/4jt4dru4
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📣 Two ERC-funded positions are available in the lab! If you are interested in exploring the mechanisms underlying mutation, we’d love to hear from you.
PhD: shorturl.at/Oc04N
Postdoc: shorturl.at/1ShHB
RPs and shares would be greatly appreciated!
🧪🧬🖥️ #ScienceJobs #PostdocJobs
PhD: shorturl.at/Oc04N
Postdoc: shorturl.at/1ShHB
RPs and shares would be greatly appreciated!
🧪🧬🖥️ #ScienceJobs #PostdocJobs
November 25, 2024 at 11:19 AM
📣 Two ERC-funded positions are available in the lab! If you are interested in exploring the mechanisms underlying mutation, we’d love to hear from you.
PhD: shorturl.at/Oc04N
Postdoc: shorturl.at/1ShHB
RPs and shares would be greatly appreciated!
🧪🧬🖥️ #ScienceJobs #PostdocJobs
PhD: shorturl.at/Oc04N
Postdoc: shorturl.at/1ShHB
RPs and shares would be greatly appreciated!
🧪🧬🖥️ #ScienceJobs #PostdocJobs
Another early Christmas present in the form of another cool study! Sümer et al takes us back to life in Europe 45,000 years ago. Lots of cool stories - one of them being the fact an individual (at Ranis) were related to an individual at another site (Zlatý kůň) 230 km away - Small world!
I am very happy to share our new paper on the genetics of some of the first modern humans who ever lived in Europe! We sequenced nuclear DNA from 13 specimens from Ranis in Germany, and found that they belonged to at least 6 individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n)
Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture - Nature
Nature - Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture
www.nature.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Another early Christmas present in the form of another cool study! Sümer et al takes us back to life in Europe 45,000 years ago. Lots of cool stories - one of them being the fact an individual (at Ranis) were related to an individual at another site (Zlatý kůň) 230 km away - Small world!
This is a really cool study that provides a glimpse into a distant past when humans and Neanderthal lived side by side for thousands of years. Hats off to the two first authors @leonardoiasi.bsky.social and @mchintalapati.bsky.social!
Out today in @sciencemagazine, we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 present-day and ancient modern humans, including 59 individuals who lived between 2,000 and 45,000 years ago.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Neanderthal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans
Gene flow from Neanderthals has shaped genetic and phenotypic variation in modern humans. We generated a catalog of Neanderthal ancestry segments in more than 300 genomes spanning the past 50,000 year...
www.science.org
December 12, 2024 at 9:40 PM
This is a really cool study that provides a glimpse into a distant past when humans and Neanderthal lived side by side for thousands of years. Hats off to the two first authors @leonardoiasi.bsky.social and @mchintalapati.bsky.social!
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...
Link for application:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
December 2, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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...
Link for application:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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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...
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
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...
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...
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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
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
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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 🇮🇳🧬
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February 21, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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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doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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