Anthropology & Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University | Microbiome Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | Archaeogenetics, Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology | Microbiology, FSU Jenahttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3mkqjxa6tvc2mhttps://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/harvard-faculty-recognized-by-the-national-academy-of-sciences/30 Apr 2026 21:16 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqjxa6tvc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3mkodb2cths2vI have the best colleagues! Thank you everyone for the overwhelming support and congratulations ❤️30 Apr 2026 00:11 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkodb2cths2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3mko33njohc2nI was elected yesterday to the US National Academy of Sciences! I feel so honored and grateful! I’m heading to the SAAs right now and I can’t wait to celebrate!29 Apr 2026 21:45 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mko33njohc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3mi2husucn22gThe Adventures in Archaeological Science coloring book is now available in Kyrgyz / Кыргыз. A big thank you to Saltanat Alisher kyzy for making the coloring book available in Kyrgzy! https://christinawarinner.com/2026/03/27/adventures-in-archaeological-science-coloring-book-now-available-in-kyrgyz/27 Mar 2026 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2husucn22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3me35qa76wc2gCheck out our new article in Current Anthropology on the changing landscape of archaeological publishing! www.doi.org/10.1086/73978905 Feb 2026 00:40 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3me35qa76wc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3mdv24hrm3226Congratulations to Akari for completing her postdoc on traditional dairying in Mongolia in the FSU Microverse Cluster at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology and starting a new professorship at Okayama University!02 Feb 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdv24hrm3226https://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3maencihhmk26Important Announcement: EAA Special Meeting The European Archaeological Association will hold a Special Meeting to discuss the organisation’s governance and future direction. - 🗓 Friday, 9 Jan 2026 - ⏰ 14:00–17:00 CET Online voting will take place on 16–31 Jan 2026 https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/News___Publications/News_Items/Announcement_Special_Meeting.aspx19 Dec 2025 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3maencihhmk26https://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3maeewom3fc23Check out our new ancient DNA article on the deep time evolution of antimicrobial peptides in the oral microbiome! Learn more about actifensins and test out our new software tool, AMPcombi! A big congratulations especially to Anan and Rosa for all their hard work on this! https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c1433519 Dec 2025 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3maeewom3fc23https://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3m5arfywjzs2lWhat an inspiring CARTA Symposium on “Ancient DNA: New Revelations”! Thank you so much to the whole CARTA organizational team for making it possible!10 Nov 2025 04:19 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5arfywjzs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3m3d3rtbans25So proud to be among the speakers addressing “What it means to be human” at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology symposium!16 Oct 2025 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3d3rtbans25https://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3m3cyru3ylk2kWe're so excited to share our newest ancient DNA findings on hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in Kazakhstan! https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw821916 Oct 2025 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3cyru3ylk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3m2ap4fhyys26So excited to learn about the work Henny Piezonka is doing on reindeer!02 Oct 2025 23:23 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ap4fhyys26https://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lzrcigeh7c2bWe're so happy to share our newest ancient DNA findings in Mongolia on the Slab Grave expansion and its consequences for diverse Bronze Age pastoralists! https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63789-126 Sep 2025 20:27 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzrcigeh7c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lyve2mvzx22hWe're organizing a new CARTA symposium this November 7 on "Ancient DNA: New Revelations"! We have an amazing lineup of speakers who will showcase the biggest discoveries in ancient DNA over the past 5 years - and offer a sneak peek of what's next. Mark your calendars and don't miss it!15 Sep 2025 17:40 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyve2mvzx22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lyaon2tofs22Having the best time at the Stanford Fermented Food Conference! From kimchi to koji to sauerkraut, this was the tastiest conference I’ve ever attended! A big thank you to the Sonnenburg lab for organizing, and it was so great to see Rob Dunn and Rachel Dutton again!07 Sep 2025 12:24 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyaon2tofs22https://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lxl7ut7uc22oAnd that’s a wrap! Congratulations to the entire ISBA community for a successful ISBA11!29 Aug 2025 23:34 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxl7ut7uc22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lxhudfbte22kOh boy - we opened this year’s ISBA meetings in a Roman amphitheater!28 Aug 2025 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxhudfbte22khttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lxhtupw7gc2kThe Warinner Group and collaborators having fun at ISBA11 in Torino, Italy!28 Aug 2025 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxhtupw7gc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lw77zb7zks22We have a new article out in Cell! Learn more about plague in prehistoric livestock: "Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage" https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00851-712 Aug 2025 11:39 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw77zb7zks22https://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lvwvmx56uk2uNew article in the Harvard Gazette about how we’re persevering despite funding cuts https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/08/funding-cuts-upend-projects-piecing-together-saga-of-human-history/09 Aug 2025 04:12 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvwvmx56uk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lvq4eoxk3c2hI'll be presenting our research on ancient food fermentations at the upcoming Stanford Fermented Food Conference on September 4-5, 2025. Join us to learn more about our recent findings on Roman wine and ancient Himalayan beer! There will be yeast and LAB genomes! https://med.stanford.edu/nutrition/events/fermented-food-conference.html06 Aug 2025 11:24 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvq4eoxk3c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lvpvhmhync2hWarinner lab undergraduate researcher Juliet Garon recently presented her summer research that builds foundational knowledge for the use of protein mass spectrometry to understand human respiratory diseases and immune response before the antibiotic era. Congratulations Juliet!06 Aug 2025 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvpvhmhync2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lvljt3ibfk2iPostdoc James Fellows Yates has won the Dawn Field Award for Outstanding Contributions to Genomic Standards at this year’s Genomics Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Cambridge, UK! Congratulations, James! We couldn’t be more proud!04 Aug 2025 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvljt3ibfk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lvlihmrw7c2iWant to learn more about the cutting edge of ancient microbial metagenomics and the evolutionary history of Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria? Join us this Thursday for I-Ting’s PhD defense on “Microbial evolution through the lens of metagenomics and paleogenomics”!04 Aug 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvlihmrw7c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lsh3nnoswk2vIt's not every day you get to see the summer solstice sunset at a 7,000-year-old woodhenge! Yay for the Sonnenobservatorium in Goseck!25 Jun 2025 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsh3nnoswk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/christinawarinner.bsky.social/post/3lsh2iroyi226Just finished our summer retreat for the Paleobiotechnology research group at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology HKI. We had so much fun charting the future of ancient microbial genomes with the aim of developing better antimicrobial therapies for the future.25 Jun 2025 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:omffkft2ck5lsvus3abdakgs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsh2iroyi226