Studying population history of the circum-Alpine region, 4000-600 BCE.
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.
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
hschroeder@sund.ku.dk
Projects
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Jonas Niemann | Postdoc | j.niemannATsund.ku.dk |
| Theis Jensen | Postdoc | tztjensenATsund.ku.dk |
| Liam Lanigan | PhD student | liam.laniganATsund.ku.dk |
| Miren Iraeta Orbegozo | PhD student | orbegozoATsund.ku.dk |
| Anna White | PhD student | anna.whiteATsund.ku.dk |
| Oya Inanli | PhD student | oya.inanliATsund.ku.dk |
| Aleksandra Laura Pach | Masters student | alpATscience.ku.dk |
| Martina Abenhus Bager | Masters student | martina.bagerATsund.ku.dk |
| Yuejiao Huang | Masters student | yuejiao.huangATsund.ku.dk |
| Stefanie Nielsen | Masters student | stefanie.nielsenATsund.ku.dk |
| Anna Kjær Knudsen | Research assistant |
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Theis Jensen | PhD student | |
| Marcela Sandoval-Velasco | PhD student | |
| Martin Ellegaard | MSc student | |
| Megha Dastapur | MSc student | |
| Dorothea Mylopotamitaki | MSc student |
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
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- European Research Council
- Carlsberg Foundation
- Villum Foundation
- HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area)
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions