Happy New Year!

Jan 1, 2025

Happy New Year from all of us at the Massilani Lab! Wishing you a year full of discoveries, success, and joy! 🎉

— Joanna, Shahar, Edward, Mike, Phoebe, Diyendo, Eleanor and Rebecca (from left to right)

Welcome to our new Lab Member !!!

by Diyendo Massilani | Feb 4, 2025 | announcement

We’ve got a new lab member—YAAAAAYY!!! 🎉 Today, we’re excited to welcome Misheelt Bayarsaikhan, a recent graduate from the Institute of Archaeology at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, who’s joining us as a postbac researcher. Misheelt will dive into all things...

New publication: Double or Nothing – Ancient Duplications in the Amylase Locus Drove Human Adaptation

by Diyendo Massilani | Jan 8, 2025 | article

We’re excited to share that the preview written by Shahar and Diyendo, “Double or Nothing - Ancient Duplications in the Amylase Locus Drove Human Adaptation”, is now published in Cell Genomics! This piece offers both a sneak peek and commentary on the article,...

Featured: How DNA in dirt is reshaping our understanding of Stone Age humans

by Diyendo Massilani | Dec 31, 2024 | press

We’re excited to be featured in a new article by writer and science journalist Laura Spinney about ancient human DNA from archaeological sediment. The piece was published in New Scientist, and Laura’s work has also appeared in The Guardian, The Economist, Nature, and...

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