Linda Ongaro
@lindaongaro.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher in Human Evolutionary Genetics at Trinity College Dublin
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Linda Ongaro
@lindaongaro.bsky.social
· Nov 14
A history of multiple Denisovan introgression events in modern humans - Nature Genetics
This review describes evidence of multiple Denisovan populations, each with varying relatedness to Altai Denisovans, that introgressed into modern humans and highlights how introgression influenced hu...
www.nature.com
Excited to share our review article on Denisovans, now published in Nature Genetics 🥳 I am very grateful to
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for making this possible! Check it out 🔎🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔎Here's the free link:
rdcu.be/dY9G1
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for making this possible! Check it out 🔎🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔎Here's the free link:
rdcu.be/dY9G1
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I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue.
Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.
kevingdaly.github.io
Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.
kevingdaly.github.io
Ruminant Palaeogenomics - Kevin G. Daly: Ruminant Palaeogenomics
kevingdaly.github.io
September 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue.
Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.
kevingdaly.github.io
Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.
kevingdaly.github.io
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Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
I am so happy to see this fantastic study finally published! Huge congrats to @david-peede.bsky.social , @fervillanea.bsky.social , and all the co-authors. Amazing work! 😍
Our paper on the evolution of MUC19 in humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans is finally out today in Science!
This has been a six-year effort by 13 authors to weave together 3 separate but related evolutionary stories around this one gene (more on thread 🧵).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This has been a six-year effort by 13 authors to weave together 3 separate but related evolutionary stories around this one gene (more on thread 🧵).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection
We study the gene MUC19, for which some modern humans carry a Denisovan-like haplotype. MUC19 is a mucin, a glycoprotein that forms gels with various biological functions. We find diagnostic variants ...
www.science.org
September 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I am so happy to see this fantastic study finally published! Huge congrats to @david-peede.bsky.social , @fervillanea.bsky.social , and all the co-authors. Amazing work! 😍
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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.
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Ready for #ISBA11 meeting. Starting with the pre-conference #PAASTA 🤩 and the welcoming. It’s already being great to connect with peers from Huerta-Sánchez lab @lindaongaro.bsky.social @marcocapo.bsky.social and more (not all in this network). And remember to visit me at my poster No.254 on Friday.
August 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Ready for #ISBA11 meeting. Starting with the pre-conference #PAASTA 🤩 and the welcoming. It’s already being great to connect with peers from Huerta-Sánchez lab @lindaongaro.bsky.social @marcocapo.bsky.social and more (not all in this network). And remember to visit me at my poster No.254 on Friday.
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 11:42 AM
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🎓 PhD Position Available in the Population and Evolutionary Genetics group at Trinity College Dublin ☘️ . More details👇
March 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🎓 PhD Position Available in the Population and Evolutionary Genetics group at Trinity College Dublin ☘️ . More details👇
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January 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Really looking forward to Thursday’s Evo Anth talk by @lindaongaro.bsky.social - a really interesting topic to end the semester on!
If you’d like to join, you can register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
If you’d like to join, you can register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 9, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Really looking forward to Thursday’s Evo Anth talk by @lindaongaro.bsky.social - a really interesting topic to end the semester on!
If you’d like to join, you can register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
If you’d like to join, you can register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
I am happy to share my latest article published on
@uk.theconversation.com, written for a broad audience, where I summarise our review about the Denisovans! 🧬✨ Discover their fascinating genetics and how they shaped human history.
theconversation.com/their-dna-su...
@uk.theconversation.com, written for a broad audience, where I summarise our review about the Denisovans! 🧬✨ Discover their fascinating genetics and how they shaped human history.
theconversation.com/their-dna-su...
Their DNA survives in diverse populations across the world – but who were the Denisovans?
The discovery of a finger bone in a cave in Siberia some 15 years ago kicked off a race to unravel the mysteries of an entirely new group of humanoids.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:41 AM
I am happy to share my latest article published on
@uk.theconversation.com, written for a broad audience, where I summarise our review about the Denisovans! 🧬✨ Discover their fascinating genetics and how they shaped human history.
theconversation.com/their-dna-su...
@uk.theconversation.com, written for a broad audience, where I summarise our review about the Denisovans! 🧬✨ Discover their fascinating genetics and how they shaped human history.
theconversation.com/their-dna-su...
Congratulations @anahit19.bsky.social !! 🎆
It's finally out—the first whole-genome study on the Armenian population! A huge congratulations to @anahit19.bsky.social for all the hard work that led to this amazing paper. 🎉
www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
#PopGen
www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
#PopGen
Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population
A whole-genome study of Armenians shows homogeneous genetic structure across the region,
with a recent bottleneck explaining the distinctiveness of the Sasun population. Our
findings reject the Balkan...
www.cell.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Congratulations @anahit19.bsky.social !! 🎆
Excited to share our review article on Denisovans, now published in Nature Genetics 🥳 I am very grateful to
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for making this possible! Check it out 🔎🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔎Here's the free link:
rdcu.be/dY9G1
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for making this possible! Check it out 🔎🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔎Here's the free link:
rdcu.be/dY9G1
A history of multiple Denisovan introgression events in modern humans - Nature Genetics
This review describes evidence of multiple Denisovan populations, each with varying relatedness to Altai Denisovans, that introgressed into modern humans and highlights how introgression influenced hu...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Excited to share our review article on Denisovans, now published in Nature Genetics 🥳 I am very grateful to
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for making this possible! Check it out 🔎🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔎Here's the free link:
rdcu.be/dY9G1
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for making this possible! Check it out 🔎🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔎Here's the free link:
rdcu.be/dY9G1
Reposted by Linda Ongaro
Curious about Denisovan introgressions? 🤔
@lindaongaro.bsky.social & Emilia Huerta-Sanchez's new review breaks down
❓ what we know, how we know it, and the impact of introgression 🧬on present-day humans❓
🧐Check out their insightful piece here—free access via this link! 🔗 rdcu.be/dY9G1
@lindaongaro.bsky.social & Emilia Huerta-Sanchez's new review breaks down
❓ what we know, how we know it, and the impact of introgression 🧬on present-day humans❓
🧐Check out their insightful piece here—free access via this link! 🔗 rdcu.be/dY9G1
A history of multiple Denisovan introgression events in modern humans
Nature Genetics - This review describes evidence of multiple Denisovan populations, each with varying relatedness to Altai Denisovans, that introgressed into modern humans and highlights how...
rdcu.be
November 14, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Curious about Denisovan introgressions? 🤔
@lindaongaro.bsky.social & Emilia Huerta-Sanchez's new review breaks down
❓ what we know, how we know it, and the impact of introgression 🧬on present-day humans❓
🧐Check out their insightful piece here—free access via this link! 🔗 rdcu.be/dY9G1
@lindaongaro.bsky.social & Emilia Huerta-Sanchez's new review breaks down
❓ what we know, how we know it, and the impact of introgression 🧬on present-day humans❓
🧐Check out their insightful piece here—free access via this link! 🔗 rdcu.be/dY9G1