Mick Westbury
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Mick Westbury
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Kiwi 🇳🇿 Associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark working on modern and ancient genomics from various species.
☠️🧬 2-yr Postdoc in in Genomic Simulations and Extinction Risk Modelling!
Let's figure out the Genomic signs of Extinction @DTU in Denmark.

Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025

For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPD

Reposts appreciated 😁
September 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark.

Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025

For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD

Reposts appreciated 😁
September 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓

I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.

👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏
September 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Did llamas make it to southeast South America before Europeans? 🦙

Our manuscript used #archaeology, isotopes, and palaeogenomics #aDNA to find out 🦙🦴🧬

In summary, nope. Just guanacos hanging on into early historical times.

Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kvQy,rVDB...

Reposts appreciated 😁
April 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
South American camelid 🦙🦴 Palaeogenomics preprint!

We utilise palaeogenomic data to reveal the sex, ancestry, and domestication status of dozens of archaeological camelids (~5 - 2kya) from the Tulán ravine, Northern Chile.

Read it here
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Results summary below...🧵
November 15, 2024 at 9:00 AM