Ancient Genomics in the Schroeder Group

The group focuses 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.

Genetic models for the early peopling of the Caribbean

Research focus

Our research focuses primarily on the use of biomolecular and computational methods to study human population histories and the history of human infectious diseases. We work at the intersection of archaeology, human population genetics, and microbial ecology and we use genome-scale data to tackle questions relating to the complex interplay between human demography, adaptation, and infectious disease dynamics that shaped human history. To be able to address these questions, we are continuously developing and applying new methods that aim to optimize the recovery of ancient genomic data while minimizing sample size requirements and we believe that by collaborating with a wide range of experts from different backgrounds, our research will provide new insights into aspects of human history and microbial evolution that are relevant to people today.

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
Jonas Niemann	Postdoc	j.niemannATsund.ku.dk
Theis Jensen	Postdoc	tztjensenATsund.ku.dk
Anne-Marijn Snaaijer	PhD student	snaaijerATsund.ku.dk
Liam Lanigan	PhD student	liam.laniganATsund.ku.dk
Miren Iraeta Orbegozo	PhD student	orbegozoATsund.ku.dk
Mikkel Johansen Nørtoft	PhD student at SAXO	mikkel.johansenAThum.ku.dk

Past group members

Name	Position	E-mail
Theis Jensen	PhD student
Marcela Sandoval-Velasco	PhD student
Martin Ellegaard	MSc student
Megha Dastapur	MSc student
Dorothea Mylopotamitaki	MSc student

Projects

ArchSci2020 (www.archsci2020.eu)
ChemArch (www.chemarch.eu)
CitiGen (www.citigen.org)

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