Ancient Genomics in the Schroeder Group

In the Ancient Genomics research group we focus primarily on questions relating to human population history and the history of infectious disease. We use a variety of biomolecular and computational methods to tackle these questions, including ancient DNA analysis and metagenomics.

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Group Leader

Dr. Hannes Schroeder
Associate Professor

Section for Evolutionary Genomics

The Globe Institute

Øster Farimagsgade 5

1353 Copenhagen

Denmark

Tel. +45 42 52 36 14
hschroederATsund.ku.dk

Group members

Name	Position	E-mail
Dr. Jonas Niemann	Postdoc	j.niemannATsund.ku.dk
Dr. Theis Jensen	Postdoc	tztjensenATsund.ku.dk
Anne-Marijn Snaaijer	PhD student	snaaijerATsund.ku.dk
Eden Richards	PhD student	eden.richardsATsund.ku.dk
Liam Lanigan	PhD student	liam.laniganATsund.ku.dk
Miren Iraeta Orbegozo	MSc student	orbegozoATsund.ku.dk
Martina Bager	MSc student	martina.bagerATbio.ku.dk
Kristina Hansen	MSc student	khansenATbio.ku.dk
Megha Dastapur	MSc student	dastapurATbio.ku.dk
Signe Klemm	BSc student	klemmATscience.ku.dk
Dorothea Myolopotamitaki	Research assistant	mylopotamitakiATsund.ku.dk
Mikkel Johansen Nørtoft	Research assistant	mikkel.johansenAThum.ku.dk

Projects

ArchSci2020 (www.archsci2020.eu)
CitiGen (www.citigen.org)
Nexus1492 (www.nexus1492.eu)
The Fall (www.thefall1200.eu)

Recent publications

A 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch
Jensen, T.Z.T., Niemann, J., Iversen, K.H., Fotakis, A.K., Gopalakrishnan, S., Vågene, Å.J., Pedersen, M.W., Sinding, M-H.S., Ellegaard, M.R., Allentoft, M.E., Lanigan, L.T., Taurozzi, A.J., Nielsen, S.H., Dee, M.W., Mortensen, M.N., Christensen, M.C., Sørensen, S.A., Collins, M.J., Gilbert, M.T.P., Sikora, M., Rasmussen, S., and Schroeder, H. 2019. Nature Communications 10: 5520 (2019).

Unraveling ancestry, kinship, and violence in a Late Neolithic mass grave
Schroeder, H., Margaryan, A., Szmyt, M., Theulot, B., Włodarczak, P., Rasmussen, S., Gopalakrishnan, S., Szczepanek, A., Konopka, T., Jensen, T.Z.T., Witkowska, B., Wilk, S., Przybyła, M.M., Pospieszny, L., Sjögren, K-G., Belka, Z., Olsen, J., Kristiansen, K., Willerslev, E., Frei, K.M., Sikora, M., Johannsen, N.N., and Allentoft, M.E. 2019. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(22):10705-10710 (2019).

Genetic origins of the Caribbean Taino

Schroeder, H., Sikora, M., Gopalakrishnan, S., Cassidy, L.M., Delser, P.M., Velasco, M.S., Schraiber, J.G., Rasmussen, S., Homburger, J.R., Ávila-Arcos, M.C., Allentoft, M.E., Moreno-Mayar, J.V., Renaud, G., Gómez-Carballa, A., Laffoon, J.E., Hopkins, R.J.A., Higham, T.F.G., Carr, R.S., Schaffer, W.C., Day, J.S., Hoogland, M., Salas, A., Bustamante, C.D., Nielsen, R., Bradley, D.G., Hofman, C.L., and Willerslev, E. 2018. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(10):2341-2346 (2018).

Link to all publications

Teaching

Funding

Carlsberg Foundation
HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Villum Foundation