McMaster Ancient DNA News

HUBDesign: A bioinformatic pipeline for designing probes capable of capturing broad targets of interest in metagenomic settings.

The Mac aDNA Centre would like to celebrate Emil Karpinski's successful PhD defence.

The Mac aDNA Centre would like to congratulate Tyler Murchie on the successful defence and submission of his PhD Dissertation.

Community-curated and standardised metadata of published ancient metagenomic samples with AncientMetagenomeDir

A review of the history of ancient DNA in pathogen and pandemic research and how we interpret the spread of diseases in the past.

Researchers at the Ancient DNA Centre outline new methods for the extraction and enrichment of ancient DNA from permafrost cores greatly increasing the amount of breadth of material recovered.

As part of a large collaborative project, researchers at the Ancient DNA Centre conducted the first large scale phylogeographic analysis of American mastodons and showed the repeatedly migrated vast distances in response to glacial retreat.

McMaster Ancient DNA Centre researchers characterize the genetics of early smallpox vaccinations, extracting ancient DNA from the preserved scabs and lymph used to inoculate Civil War soldiers.

Hendrik Poinar explains viral evolution and why so many diseases seem to come from animals in New Yorker expert panel.