UPCOMING EVENTS

June 2025 - Nihan presented a poster on field-kit protocol at the 2nd sedaDNA conference in Tromso, Norway

April 2025 - Nihan presented a poster on microfluidics at the Tel Aviv University Research Fair in Tel Aviv, Israel

February 2025 - Nihan presented her work at the 2nd Australian & New Zealand Environmental DNA conference in Wellington, New Zealand

December 2024 - Viviane was interviewed for Blazing the Trail Podcast for their Paleoanthopology 101 series, Episode 2: We weren’t Alone! (Hominins we coexisted with)

December 2024 - Viviane gave a public lecture on the potential of sedimentary ancient DNA as part of an online course for the general public on Human Evolution, organized by the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv, Israel

November 2024 - Viviane gave a public lecture on the genetic history of humans as part of an online course for the general public on Human Evolution, organized by the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv, Israel

September 2024 - Viviane sat on the scientific committee of the 5th annual meeting of the Israeli Society for Evolutionary Biology in Jerusalem, Israel

July 2024 - Viviane lectured about sedimentary ancient DNA studies in challenging preservation contexts, specifically in the southern Levant, at the SMBE 2024 Congress in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

June 2024 - Giulia, Valentina and Viviane were involved in the “National Biology Olympic of Israel”, a competition for high-school students in biology. The exam revolved around the topic of ancient DNA.

May 2024 - Viviane lectured about Ancient DNA methods, including sedimentary aDNA, at the “Introduction to Methods and Applications in Ancient DNA” course of The Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece, and at the University of Cagliari, Italy

April 2024 - Nihan presented a poster at the UK Archaeological Sciences Conference in York, UK

March 2024 - Viviane spoke about advances in sedimentary ancient DNA methodology at the Kimmel Center seminar series in Rehovot, Israel

September 2023 - Nihan presented a poster at the New Horizons in Biomolecular Archaeology Conference in Tartu, Estonia

August 2023 - Viviane spoke about novel methods in paleogenetics at the International Symposium of the Asian Paleolithic Association in Suncheon, South Korea

July 2023 - Viviane co-organized "Session 90: Ancient DNA from Quaternary and Archaeological sediments" at INQUA XXI in Rome, Italy

July 2023 - Valentina spoke at the Goldschmidt Annual International Conference on Geochemistry in Lyon, France

May 2023 - Viviane spoke about sedimentary DNA at the Ecology, Evolution, Environment & Behaviour UZH / ETH Joint Seminar at the University of Zurich, Switzerland

April 2023 - We attended the Israeli Society for Evolutionary Biology conference in Haifa, Israel

March 2023 - Viviane gave a plenary speech about sedimentary DNA at the "Revolutionizing Next-Generation Sequencing" conference in Ghent, Belgium

February 2023 - Viviane is now an affiliate of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics at TAU

January 2023 - Viviane was a plenary speaker at the 30th Plant and Animal Genome conference in San Diego, California (USA)

January 2023 - Dr. Ivan Alexandrov joins the lab as a research associate - Welcome Ivan!

December 2022 - Viviane talked about archaic admixture at Camp Evolution VIII in Sde Boker, Israel

December 2022 - Lab members participated in the "Evolution of Culture and Technology" mini-symposium in Tel Aviv, Israel
 
November 2022 - Viviane talked about human evolution at the Gala Dinner of the 10th Annual D. Dan and Betty Kahn Scientific Symposium

October 2022 - Amit presented a demo on his software at the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management in Atlanta, Georgia (USA)

October 2022 - Three new lab members join the team - Dr. Pnina Cohen and Dr. Valentina Vanghi both start post-doctoral fellowships, and Giulia Di Crosta joins us as a PhD student. Welcome all!

September 2022 - Viviane talked about Neandertals, Denisovans and ancient sedimentary DNA at the Insights Into Human History in the Eurasian Stone Age meeting in Sendai, Japan

August 2022 - New paper alert! We report on the preservation of ancient DNA in Pleistocene-age sediments at Sefunim Cave, Israel

July 2022 - Our project on studying prehistoric humans and their environment in the southern Levant is selected for funding by the ISF

July 2022 - Our project on using sediments as a source of both chronological and genetic information, in collaboration with the Frouin lab, has been selected for funding by the BSF. See here for an open PhD position!

June 2022 - Viviane co-authors a book chapter on methodological advances to study Neanderthals - now out!

June 2022 - Shared presentation with Prof. Israel Hershkovitz on evolutionary medicine and the implications of Neandertal DNA on our health today at the Medicine 2042 conference in Tel Aviv

May 2022 - Viviane taught in the 'Genetics for archaeologists' workshop organized by ICArEHB in Faro, Portugal

May 2022 - Lab members participated in the 'Ancient human genomes' session of the 25th Human Genome meeting in Tel Aviv

April 2022 - Public outreach event! Viviane talked about "digging for DNA", and her experience as a woman in STEM, at the "Café des Sciences" in Tel Aviv

April 2022 - MSc student Amit Bergman presented a poster on his work at the TAU Research Fair

April 2022 - Invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Israel at Ben-Gurion University

March 2022 - Our project on sedimentary ancient DNA analysis, in collaboration with the Moorjani lab, has been selected for funding by the KBTI. See here for an open post-doctoral position!

January 2022 - Viviane is now a member of the advisory board of the sedaDNA scientific society