Elena Zavala

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes?
Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :)

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Please reach out if you have any questions!

Information for University of Copenhagen summer course on Forensic Genetics and Massively Parallel Sequencing.

If you are masters student interested in forensic genetics - check out our course in Copenhagen!

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :)

Link for application:
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PhD fellowship in Sediment DNA at the Department of Forensic Medicine

Wonderful to see so many new people here! :-)

Interested in sedaDNA, aDNA, or forensic genetics?
Join me in Copenhagen!
I'm hiring a PhD and a Postdoc to start in 2025. Application deadline 28 November
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

We (Laurits Skov, Priya Moorjani and I) are very happy to share this preprint on the genetic history of India: 50,000 years of Evolutionary History of India: Insights from ~2,700 Whole Genome Sequences 🇮🇳🧬
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? The decision by Duke University to close their herbarium is deeply concerning. Herbaria are not just repositories of plant specimens, they are living libraries of life on Earth. They hold the keys to ...

Petition to urge Duke University not to close its herbarium ✍️
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#histsci #evobio #philsci 🌿🌍 #envhist 📜🧪

50,000 years of Evolutionary History of India: Insights from ~2,700 Whole Genome Sequences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.15.580575v1 India has been underrepresented in whole genome sequencing studies. We generated 2,762 high coverage

50,000 years of Evolutionary History of India: Insights from ~2,700 Whole Genome Sequences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.15.580575v1

We, Alan Izarraras Gomez and I, wrote a 'News and Views' on the latest Nakatsuka et al. (2023) paper discovering an ancient migration (around 5,200 years old) from Northwest Mexico to California that likely spread a language family in California: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This was a challenging project, but a wonderful collaboration with @helenfewlass.bsky.social , Jarosław Wilczyński,
@matejahajdi.bsky.social , Jean-Jacques Hublin, Edouard Bard, Thibaut Tuna and Yoann Fagault

We found that the previously found infant human teeth belonged to a girl that lived >30,000 years ago and could be associated to a collection of 112 herbivore tooth pendantes.

Chronological and genetic analysis of an Upper Palaeolithic female infant burial from Borsuka Cave, ... Six infant human teeth and 112 animal tooth pendants from Borsuka Cave were identified as the oldest burial in Poland. However, uncertainties around t…

Happy to share our publication where we used <67mg of tooth dentine for both aDNA and C14 analysis!
t.co/1S73KFacwO