We talked to AA about our Neolithic Çayönü results
Yılmaz Selim Erdal and Mehmet Somel talked to Selma Kasap from AA (Anadolu Agency) about our findings from the Neolithic Çayönü site and its social implications. Full article…
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Mehmet Somel gave a talk on Pääbo’s Nobel Prize
In an activity organized in in METU Culture and Convention Center, Mehmet Somel was invited to talk on why this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to…
We presented our results in Halle, Germany
On October 6th, we presented our recent work on genetic kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia at the “Kinship, Sex, and Biological Relatedness” Symposium organized by the State Museum of Prehistory…
NEW PAPER | MTaxi: A comparative tool for taxon identification of ultra low coverage ancient genomes
Below you may find the abstract of our latest paper was published in Open Research Europe: A major challenge in zooarchaeology is to morphologically distinguish closely related species’…
NEOMATRIX partners meet in Ankara
As we hit the 18th month of our 3-year-long international science collaboration project NEOMATRIX, a H2020 funded Twinning project, PIs and ESRs from all partners (Stockholm University, Institut…
We participated in symposium on excavations in Denizli
As members of CompEvo, Human-G Lab, and Hacettepe University Department of Bioinformatics we participated in the 42nd International Symposium on Excavations, Surveys and Archaeometry held in Denizli by…
Synthesis workshop with prominent archaeologists in METU
We came together with some of the most prominent archaeologists of Turkey in METU for a 3-day workhop (April 20-22, 2022) where we presented our aDNA results and…
We made a call for equitable collaboration in ancient DNA research
Below you may find the full text of our call, published as a “Correspondance” article in Nature by Mehmet Somel, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Füsun Özer & María C. Ávila-Arcos: The expansion of…
Ancient DNA retreat in Datça
The joint ancient DNA team of METU and Hacettepe University had a lab retreat in Datça on 13-18 September 2021, with the participation of Anders Götherström from Stockholm…
NEW PAPER | Human inbreeding has decreased in time through the Holocene
Below you may find the abstract of our latest paper was published in Current Biology: The history of human inbreeding is controversial. In particular, how the development of…