Christina Warinner
@christinawarinner.bsky.social
Anthropology & Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University | Microbiome Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | Archaeogenetics, Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology | Microbiology, FSU Jena
Check out our new ancient DNA article on the deep time evolution of antimicrobial peptides in the oral microbiome! Learn more about actifensins and test out our new software tool, AMPcombi! A big congratulations especially to Anan and Rosa for all their hard work on this!
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December 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Check out our new ancient DNA article on the deep time evolution of antimicrobial peptides in the oral microbiome! Learn more about actifensins and test out our new software tool, AMPcombi! A big congratulations especially to Anan and Rosa for all their hard work on this!
doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
What an inspiring CARTA Symposium on “Ancient DNA: New Revelations”! Thank you so much to the whole CARTA organizational team for making it possible!
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
What an inspiring CARTA Symposium on “Ancient DNA: New Revelations”! Thank you so much to the whole CARTA organizational team for making it possible!
So proud to be among the speakers addressing “What it means to be human” at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology symposium!
October 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
So proud to be among the speakers addressing “What it means to be human” at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology symposium!
We're so excited to share our newest ancient DNA findings on hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in Kazakhstan!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We're so excited to share our newest ancient DNA findings on hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in Kazakhstan!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
So excited to learn about the work Henny Piezonka is doing on reindeer!
October 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
So excited to learn about the work Henny Piezonka is doing on reindeer!
We're so happy to share our newest ancient DNA findings in Mongolia on the Slab Grave expansion and its consequences for diverse Bronze Age pastoralists! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
September 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
We're so happy to share our newest ancient DNA findings in Mongolia on the Slab Grave expansion and its consequences for diverse Bronze Age pastoralists! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
We're organizing a new CARTA symposium this November 7 on "Ancient DNA: New Revelations"! We have an amazing lineup of speakers who will showcase the biggest discoveries in ancient DNA over the past 5 years - and offer a sneak peek of what's next. Mark your calendars and don't miss it!
September 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We're organizing a new CARTA symposium this November 7 on "Ancient DNA: New Revelations"! We have an amazing lineup of speakers who will showcase the biggest discoveries in ancient DNA over the past 5 years - and offer a sneak peek of what's next. Mark your calendars and don't miss it!
Having the best time at the Stanford Fermented Food Conference! From kimchi to koji to sauerkraut, this was the tastiest conference I’ve ever attended! A big thank you to the Sonnenburg lab for organizing, and it was so great to see Rob Dunn and Rachel Dutton again!
September 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Having the best time at the Stanford Fermented Food Conference! From kimchi to koji to sauerkraut, this was the tastiest conference I’ve ever attended! A big thank you to the Sonnenburg lab for organizing, and it was so great to see Rob Dunn and Rachel Dutton again!
And that’s a wrap! Congratulations to the entire ISBA community for a successful ISBA11!
August 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
And that’s a wrap! Congratulations to the entire ISBA community for a successful ISBA11!
Oh boy - we opened this year’s ISBA meetings in a Roman amphitheater!
August 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Oh boy - we opened this year’s ISBA meetings in a Roman amphitheater!
The Warinner Group and collaborators having fun at ISBA11 in Torino, Italy!
August 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The Warinner Group and collaborators having fun at ISBA11 in Torino, Italy!
We have a new article out in Cell! Learn more about plague in prehistoric livestock: "Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
August 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
We have a new article out in Cell! Learn more about plague in prehistoric livestock: "Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
New article in the Harvard Gazette about how we’re persevering despite funding cuts
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August 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
New article in the Harvard Gazette about how we’re persevering despite funding cuts
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
I'll be presenting our research on ancient food fermentations at the upcoming Stanford Fermented Food Conference on September 4-5, 2025. Join us to learn more about our recent findings on Roman wine and ancient Himalayan beer!
There will be yeast and LAB genomes! med.stanford.edu/nutrition/ev...
There will be yeast and LAB genomes! med.stanford.edu/nutrition/ev...
August 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I'll be presenting our research on ancient food fermentations at the upcoming Stanford Fermented Food Conference on September 4-5, 2025. Join us to learn more about our recent findings on Roman wine and ancient Himalayan beer!
There will be yeast and LAB genomes! med.stanford.edu/nutrition/ev...
There will be yeast and LAB genomes! med.stanford.edu/nutrition/ev...
Warinner lab undergraduate researcher Juliet Garon recently presented her summer research that builds foundational knowledge for the use of protein mass spectrometry to understand human respiratory diseases and immune response before the antibiotic era. Congratulations Juliet!
August 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Warinner lab undergraduate researcher Juliet Garon recently presented her summer research that builds foundational knowledge for the use of protein mass spectrometry to understand human respiratory diseases and immune response before the antibiotic era. Congratulations Juliet!
Postdoc James Fellows Yates has won the Dawn Field Award for Outstanding Contributions to Genomic Standards at this year’s Genomics Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Cambridge, UK! Congratulations, James! We couldn’t be more proud!
August 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Postdoc James Fellows Yates has won the Dawn Field Award for Outstanding Contributions to Genomic Standards at this year’s Genomics Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Cambridge, UK! Congratulations, James! We couldn’t be more proud!
Want to learn more about the cutting edge of ancient microbial metagenomics and the evolutionary history of Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria? Join us this Thursday for I-Ting’s PhD defense on “Microbial evolution through the lens of metagenomics and paleogenomics”!
August 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Want to learn more about the cutting edge of ancient microbial metagenomics and the evolutionary history of Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria? Join us this Thursday for I-Ting’s PhD defense on “Microbial evolution through the lens of metagenomics and paleogenomics”!
It's not every day you get to see the summer solstice sunset at a 7,000-year-old woodhenge! Yay for the Sonnenobservatorium in Goseck!
June 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's not every day you get to see the summer solstice sunset at a 7,000-year-old woodhenge! Yay for the Sonnenobservatorium in Goseck!
Just finished our summer retreat for the Paleobiotechnology research group at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology HKI. We had so much fun charting the future of ancient microbial genomes with the aim of developing better antimicrobial therapies for the future.
June 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just finished our summer retreat for the Paleobiotechnology research group at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology HKI. We had so much fun charting the future of ancient microbial genomes with the aim of developing better antimicrobial therapies for the future.
Our official photo from the Nobel Symposium - what a blast! It was so incredible to learn about all the amazing paleogenomics research happening right now!
June 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Our official photo from the Nobel Symposium - what a blast! It was so incredible to learn about all the amazing paleogenomics research happening right now!
It was so nice spending time with my colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology at our annual retreat at Ringberg Castle! What a treat!
June 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It was so nice spending time with my colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology at our annual retreat at Ringberg Castle! What a treat!
We got to see the Linnean type specimens!!!
May 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We got to see the Linnean type specimens!!!
It’s been a great Nobel Symposium!
May 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
It’s been a great Nobel Symposium!
It is so fun to get to hang out with the newest member of the National Academy Sciences!
May 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
It is so fun to get to hang out with the newest member of the National Academy Sciences!
On my way to meet the Nobel Committee. My government may not value my research but I’m glad others do
May 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
On my way to meet the Nobel Committee. My government may not value my research but I’m glad others do