PhD project embedded in Project 2: Evolution in Action: Environment, Agriculture, an Human Disease

Topic of PhD thesis:

Detection of Pathogens by Metagenomic Analysis in Preserved Historic and Prehistoric Soft Tissues

Publications:

Robin M, Ferrari G, Akgül G, Münger X, von Seth J, Schuenemann VJ, Dalén L, Grossen C (2022).

Ancient mitochondrial and modern whole genomes unravel massive genetic diversity loss during near extinction of Alpine ibex (https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16503)

Molecular Ecology, May 2022

Rayo E, Ferrari G, Neukamm J, Akgül G, Breidenstein AM, Cooke M, Phillips C, Bouwman AS, Rühli FJ, Schuenemann VJ (2022).

Non-destructive extraction of DNA from preserved tissues in medical collections (https://doi.org/10.2144/btn-2021-0014)

Future Science, January 2022

Ferrari G, Neukamm J, Baalsrud HT, Breidenstein AM, Ravinet M, Phillips C, Rühli F, Bouwman A, Schuenemann VJ (2020).

Variola virus genome sequenced from an eighteenth-century museum specimen supports the recent origin of smallpox (https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0572)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, October 2020

Ferrari G, Lischer HEL, Neukamm J, Rayo E, Borel N, Pospischil A, Rühli F, Bouwman AS, Campana MG (2018).

Assessing Metagenomic Signals Recovered from Lyuba, a 42,000-Year-Old Permafrost-Preserved Woolly Mammoth Calf (https://doi.org/10.3390/genes9090436)

Genes, August 2018