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A 16th century Escherichia coli draft genome associated with an opportunistic bile infection

It is the first ancient genome of Escherichia coli and was also responsible for creating several gallstones.

Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death

Genes that protected our ancestors from Black Death make us more susceptible to autoimmune disorders today

Emil presents at Biology Research Day 2019

Emil Karpinski presented his work on American mastodon genetics at the Department of Biology's 6th Annual Graduate Research Day.

Congratulations Matthew Emery

The entire McMaster aDNA Centre would like to congratulate Matthew Emery for successfully defending his PhD research.

Newly established Shelly Saunders/Koloshuk Family Scholarship to attract world’s best anthropology graduate students

A $1 million dollar gift by Victor Koloshuk to honour the legacy of his late wife, the renowned biological anthropologist Shelly Saunders, is being used to ...

The 2019 graduate colloquium for the Sherman Centre of Digital Scholarship

Katherine Eaton presented her pedagogical research on digital anthropology in university education.

Plague genome: The Black Death decoded

Nature News article on the first plague genome.

Targeted enrichment of ancient pathogens yielding the pPCP1 plasmid of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

Here we report the entire full pPCP1 virulence-associated plasmid of Yersinia pestis as high coverage, the longest contingous genomic sequence of an ancient ...

Quantitative Assessment of the Sensitivity of Various Commercial Reverse Transcriptases Based on Armored HIV RNA

Here we report a systematic comparison of 11 commercially available reverse transciptases for cDNA synthesis. Our analysis reveals significant variation in the ...

American Museum of Natural History biologist and colleagues decode longest DNA sequence ever of woolly mammoth

American Museum of Natural History article on our collaborative efforts to produce the longest ancient DNA sequences ever obtained from a woolly mammoth.