Forensic and Pop.Genetics🧬Human and disease coevolution🧬genetic genealogy🧬Evolutionary Ecology @HumanPalaeosystemsResearch group @MPI-GEA & @EGG_Camhttps://bsky.app/profile/margheritac17.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/margheritac17.bsky.social/post/3mk4bbnlpxs2r🦟 Out and on a shiny new cover of Science Advances: we use a novel approach to study malaria impact on early human groups - malaria wasn't just a threat, it shaped human habitat choice in sub-Saharan Africa in the past 74,000 years. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea2316 [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Apr 2026 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:romjcsce6djo4ox2npico6h3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4bbnlpxs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/margheritac17.bsky.social/post/3m5swrlzq5c2jDiscover how ancient DNA and modern genomics can trace pathogen evolution 🦠 join us and @lucyvandorp.bsky.social tomorrow (online): https://www.gea.mpg.de/179333/uncovering-the-drivers-of-pathogen-evolution-from-ancient-dna-to-modern-disease.html17 Nov 2025 09:43 +0000at://did:plc:romjcsce6djo4ox2npico6h3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5swrlzq5c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/margheritac17.bsky.social/post/3m3a4cqkc722iHappening today! Join us at 2pm (CET) on Zoom ‼️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Oct 2025 11:11 +0000at://did:plc:romjcsce6djo4ox2npico6h3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3a4cqkc722ihttps://bsky.app/profile/margheritac17.bsky.social/post/3m2razxmjqc25The seminar series is back! Don't miss the FIRST talk of the 2025/26 Human Palaeosystems in focus - the perfect way to get inspired for the new academic year ahead ➡️ https://www.gea.mpg.de/177655/the-evolution-of-human-niche-size-in-east-asia-across-the-pleistocene.html09 Oct 2025 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:romjcsce6djo4ox2npico6h3/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2razxmjqc25https://bsky.app/profile/margheritac17.bsky.social/post/3lwyihyyzbs2kThank you @prelights.bsky.social & Alejandra Leffer's group for choosing our preprint on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social and for this chance to talk about human- #malaria coevolution!🦟 @eegcam.bsky.social @elliescerri.bsky.social @MPI_GEA [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2025 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:romjcsce6djo4ox2npico6h3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwyihyyzbs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/margheritac17.bsky.social/post/3lr6rirowns2c🚨 NEW preprint🚨 Our latest study @HPS MPI-GEA @elliescerri.bsky.social & @eegcam.bsky.social models #malaria risk over the past 74,000 years revealing its powerful role in shaping human habitat choice and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa 🦟🌍 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657870v109 Jun 2025 16:13 +0000at://did:plc:romjcsce6djo4ox2npico6h3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr6rirowns2c