Torsten Günther
Researcher, Population Genomics, ancient DNA, Humans, Domestication
Uppsala University, Sweden
Lab website: www.gunther-lab.org
ORCID: 0000-0001-9460-390X
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherJoin us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
- Looking forward to welcoming Mustafa soon @humanevouu.bsky.social 🎉😊
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherWe are looking for an enthusiast and motivated postdoc to join the Paleogenomics and Evolutionary Biology group at @liigh-unam.bsky.social, to lead a project working with human pre-hispanic samples. Interested candidates send a CV and letter of intent to fsanchez@liigh.unam.mx. Please #RT
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- 📣 The @scilifelab.se #ddls postdoc (2yrs) offers a great community + training + all social benefits! Happy to discuss your own project ideas! I also have some ideas on ARGs, pangenomes or biobank-scale datasets 🧬🐏🧪🖥️ Deadline is Mar 31 but some admin things need to be handled well in advance!
- SciLifeLab has opened a call for #postdoc fellows in Data-Driven Life Science. We would be happy to host such fellows! Get in touch if you are interested in applying with a project on the evolution of humans and domestic animals using ancient and/or modern DNA 🧪🏺 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
- Reposted by Torsten Günther📣 We are seeking a postdoctoral research fellow in ancient metagenomics. Join us at the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu. ⏳ 01.04.2026–31.03.2028 📚 1.0 position 📍 Riia 23b, Tartu, Estonia ℹ️ Project: lnkd.in/dQARuBxM ℹ️ Application: lnkd.in/dFR8DQxH ⏰ Deadline 02.02.2026
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherLin et al. assess the impact of sequencing depth when mapping ancient DNA data and in silico modern and ancient-like DNA data, showing that depths >100X fail to yield stable heterozygosity estimates, and leave ~4% of the genome uncovered. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf251 #genome #evolution
- SciLifeLab has opened a call for #postdoc fellows in Data-Driven Life Science. We would be happy to host such fellows! Get in touch if you are interested in applying with a project on the evolution of humans and domestic animals using ancient and/or modern DNA 🧪🏺 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherHere's my latest contribution to the @nytimes "Lost Science" series. Brenna Henn's sweeping study of African genetics has been frozen. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Ypmm1A
- Oh, look! My friends around Magdalena Fraser & Federico Sanchez-Quinto et al have a new study analyzing more high-coverage Neolithic #aDNA genomes from the Baltic island of Gotland (including pathogens!!!) 👀 🧪 🏺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherOur new ancient DNA paper has just been published! We present 28 new genomes from southern Africa - several of them high-coverage whole genomes. Exciting to be moving towards population-level representation of ancient southern African genetic diversity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherWe’re excited to offer a fully-funded PhD position (NERC & BBSRC-funded QUARTILES) focusing on oak conservation and restoration. The project features ancient DNA analysis of archeological oak specimens as a key element of the research. @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social #ancientDNA #conservation
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherDespite my insomnia, I'm very happy to share our preprint: a multi-disciplinary assessment of a sheep mass mortality event from ~18th century France. We report the first ancient sheeppox virus (think smallpox) and the Taenia hydatigena (nasty roundworm) genomes. #aDNA
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherOur paper is out! Although wolves and dogs can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, hybridization between the two is rare. We found that most dogs today have low but detectable levels of post-domestication wolf ancestry that has shaped their evolution in human environments. tinyurl.com/yt4x4r7n
- Reposted by Torsten Günther🐺 Wolves in dog's clothing 🐺 Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry. Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherA PNAS Special Feature exclusively about dogs? Woof! Here are 3 of the 8 that we were involved with. Congrats to @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social & @undeaddandy.bsky.social Dingoes! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... German Shepherds! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Imputation! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Next paper published in the @hpgg-pivot.bsky.social special issue on popgen methods and software! Coll Macià & Skov "Best practices and pitfalls in using hmmix for reference-free detection of introgressed sequences" doi.org/10.47248/hpg... Submission for contributions still open to 15 January!
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherWe're hiring a PhD student to work on genomic prediction and genetic variation in farm animals. There will be cattle, genomics, simulation, and there might be poultry. And if you already have a PhD, consider sharing with someone who hasn't, and might be a good fit. :) www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherA PhD project on historical genomics in the declining red squirrel in Britain is available in my group, through the @aries-dtp.bsky.social. Use historical genomes to track the effects of decline and genetic rescue in this charismatic species. aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherWe are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2
- Become our colleague! - 2yr Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past (UU) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social 🧪 Great place to work at (ok, I am biased), integration with archaeologists and linguists + pretty flexible research topic www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherOur paper on imputation of ancient goat genomes is now available at GBE - congratulations to @jolijnerven.bsky.social #aDNA
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherThe latest issue of #G3journal features work from @trstngnthr.bsky.social, @amygoldberg.bsky.social, @jgschraiber.bsky.social, where they benchmarked methods for estimating ancestry proportions under mapping bias and present adjusted genotype-likelihoods to mitigate its impact. buff.ly/9ET69CA
- Reposted by Torsten Günther📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherIf you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherThis is an amazing program and I was lucky enough to work with many MEME students during my time @animecol-uu.bsky.social. One of the best MSc training programs you can do if evolution is your jam!
- Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu ) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherDue to the popularity of our special issue on Population Genomics Methods and Software and the high quality of submitted papers, we’ve extended the submission deadline to 15 January! Submissions focusing on software and tools are very welcome. 🔗 www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/special...
- 🎉The 1st paper in our special issue "Population Genomics Methods and Software" is now published!! “SimHumanity: Using SLiM 5.0 to run whole-genome simulations of human evolution” www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/5/4/000... Many more exciting papers to come - stay tuned! www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/special...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherA PhD project in human genomics with me is open for applications through the @nrpdtp.bsky.social. Use biobank-scale genomics datasets to answer long-standing questions about the evolution of our species: biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/the...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherNew job opportunity in our project! Want to join us — or know someone who could? More details coming soon. The PhD will be supervised by Cristina Valdiosera and Colin Smith #JobOpening #ERC #Spain #UBU #México #PhD #PhDposition #Mestizaje #stableisotopes
- Reposted by Torsten Günther🎉The 1st paper in our special issue "Population Genomics Methods and Software" is now published!! “SimHumanity: Using SLiM 5.0 to run whole-genome simulations of human evolution” www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/5/4/000... Many more exciting papers to come - stay tuned! www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/special...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherWe're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
- One week left to apply!
- I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st) The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations). Please share! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherThe Animal #aDNA Research Community is looking for new members to its steering committee! If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe. @aarc-community.bsky.social
- Reposted by Torsten Günther🧬🧬🧬 🦣❤️🦣 🧬🧬🧬 New #CpgSthlm paper led by @maridehasque.bsky.social published in Biology Letters! Genomic and morphological analysis reveals long-term mammoth hybridization in British Columbia, Canada royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherVery happy to see our pre-print on ancient Irish goat genetics on bioRxiv #aDNA #spiergorm I want to acknowledge this was only possible through the work of the late Dr. Judith Findlater, along with Prof. Eileen Murphy at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherNow published in Cell! We found that ~15% of SNPs from divergent refs did not liftover as SNPs in the gray fox ref—half mapped to monomorphic sites, half failed to map. Co-authored with Matthew Genchev, @elliecat.bsky.social, and @jazlynmooney.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- 1/7 🧬 New Preprint Alert: Our study highlights the risks of using divergent reference genomes in population genomics. The choice of reference genome can skew key inferences about demography, diversity, and selection. Read on for insights! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st) The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations). Please share! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherOne week left to apply for our postdoc position on Deep-Time Small Rodent Palaeogenomics! This is a 2-year full-time position that includes Swedish employment benefits, as well as funding for research expenses and work-related travel. More info and application link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherHeads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change. Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherI totally recommend this position on @trstngnthr.bsky.social lab. Great place to do science, and amazing people to do it with! #aDNA 🧪 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
- Reposted by Torsten Günther☠️🧬 2-yr Postdoc in in Genomic Simulations and Extinction Risk Modelling! Let's figure out the Genomic signs of Extinction @DTU in Denmark. Start: Feb 2026 (flexible) Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025 For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPD Reposts appreciated 😁
- Reposted by Torsten Günther🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark. Start: Feb 2026 (flexible) Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025 For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD Reposts appreciated 😁
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherI will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue. Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October. kevingdaly.github.io
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherMore about the West African rock doves, including what could be the first "official" picture of these birds alive!! 🕊️ doi.org/10.25226/bbo...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherThrilled to share our study sequencing genetic data from tropical mammoths 🏝️🦣. First DNA recovered from Columbian mammoths southern than USA shorturl.at/xjIvy. Thanks to all collaborators, you were key to this success! See below a fantastic note covering the paper by the great @rpocisv.bsky.social 👇
- Check out Germán's new study on my rock doves in Africa! Filling some geographic sampling gaps, we propose that West African rock doves might be a different species and that there was a hybrid zone during the Green Sahara period
- New rock dove paper!🕊️ Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species *please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase @trstngnthr.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherShameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution! Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherI am announcing an open PhD position involving bioinformatics, genomics and machine learning to work on functional prediction of adaptive genetic variation in krill and herring! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... Going to #ESEB2025 @eseb.bsky.social ? Find me in poster session 1 for a chat!
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherOur genetic kinship estimation tool “DeepKin” is now available! Our neural network models trained on simulated data work effectively on real ancient data from diverse backgrounds and often outperform available tools. @compevohumang.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- The @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherPlease RT, two open postdoc positions in my metabolic research group: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358375 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358370
- Results of our (extremely long-term) side project with @amygoldberg.bsky.social and @jgschraiber.bsky.social out now in G3: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... We benchmarked methods for estimating ancestry proportions under mapping bias and present an adjusted GenotypeLikelihood to mitigate its impact (1/2)
- Also, check the recommendation of an earlier version by Sebastian Ramos-Onsins based on reviews by Maxime Lefebvre, @mick2474.bsky.social and Adrien Oliva over at @genomics.peercommunityin.org doi.org/10.24072/pci... (2/2)
- Nikolay is starting his own lab. Sad to see him leave Sweden but looking forward to the innovative stuff that will come out of his new group. He has several positions available ⬇️
- I am starting a computational lab at LIOS, Riga, Latvia, and going to recruit a few people. Please DM if you are interested in a postdoc or PhD position in my Metabolic Research Group within the TARGETWISE project. I can highly recommend Riga, it is a beautiful city with very good living conditions.
- The Iceman Ötzi's genome was one of the first ancient human genomes sequenced. Now our former postdoc Myriam Croze et al present the population dynamics in his Alpine region from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age 🧪🏺 Fun collaboration with Valentina Coia and others at EURAC doi.org/10.1038/s414...
- Reposted by Torsten Günther🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties. Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods. 🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherHappy to share our new study from my PhD on the spread of farming across Anatolia and into the Aegean and then into Europe. @compevohumang.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👇🏽
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherJob alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. Apply through this link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 15 August.
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherNew preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherA 4-year postdoc position in population genomics is available in my group at the University of East Anglia, to work on a project sequencing a thousand fox genomes across rural and urban environments in the UK. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...
- Private Atapuerca @fatapuerca.bsky.social trip with the kids including a visit to El Portalón de Cueva Mayor @admexture.bsky.social
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherKeen to work on the co-evolution of domesticates, humans and their pathogens? Come join us at Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen! We're hiring a postdoc in ancient genomics for a super cool project on Neolithic Sweden: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... Please share! #AcademicJobs #AncientDNA
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherOnly 1 more week to apply for this postdoc position on the genomics of parallel climate adaptation in yeast! Link to application portal is in the post below. Please share widely! 🧪🌳🧬🍄
- And now, we also have a 2-year postdoc position in the Stelkens Lab! 🧪 If you are interested in parallel evolution, genomics, yeast, and climate adaptation, this could be for you! Please apply through U Stockholm's job platform here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Reposted by Torsten GüntherHappy to announce an open call for a funded PhD position! 📊 Research project: Elucidating the fine-scale demographic history of the Eastern Baltic by incorporating haplotype-based analyses and modelling 📍 Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu 📩 Application period: 1st–15th May 2025
- Reposted by Torsten Günther🐐 New preprint out with @gingerhowley.bsky.social The VarGoats Consortium and many others! We explore how genotype imputation can enhance low-coverage ancient goat/Capra🐐 genomes, shedding light on early domestication and herd management. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #aDNA #Domestication
