Cosimo Posth | University of Tübingen

Jun. Prof. Cosimo Posth

Adress:

Rümelinstrasse 19-23,
72074 Tübingen

Phone: +49 07071 29-74089

E-mail: cosimo.posthspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Main research interests

Neanderthal evolutionary history
Population genomics of European hunter-gatherers
Central and South American genetic history
Human dispersals in Asia-Pacific
Genetic composition of European historical populations

Vita

Junior Professor of Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (since April 2020)
Group Leader of ‘Human Paleogenomics’ at the Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany (2019-2020).
Post-Doctoral researcher at the Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany (2017-2019).
Doctoral dissertation in Archaeological Sciences, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Germany (2013-2016). Thesis title: ‘Paleogenetic investigations of hominin diversity and dispersals in Eurasian prehistory’.
Master in Anthropological Sciences, University of Florence, Italy (2010-2012).
Bachelor in Natural Sciences, University of Florence, Italy (2006-2010).
Chemistry Diploma, T.I.S. Tullio Buzzi, Prato, Italy (2001-2006).

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Key, F. M., Posth, C., Esquivel-Gomez, L. R., et al. (2020) ‘Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process’, Nat Ecol Evol, 4(3), pp. 324-333.
Marcus, J. H.*, Posth, C.*, Ringbauer, H.*, et al. (2020) ‘Genetic history from the Middle Neolithic to present on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia’, Nat Commun, 11(1), pp. 939.
Feldman, M., Fernandez-Dominguez, E., Reynolds, L., Baird, D., Pearson, J., Hershkovitz, I., May, H., Goring-Morris, N., Benz, M., Gresky, J., Bianco, R. A., Fairbairn, A., Mustafaoglu, G., Stockhammer, P. W., Posth, C., Haak, W., Jeong, C. and Krause, J. (2019) ‘Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia’, Nat Commun, 10(1), pp. 1218.
Villalba-Mouco, V., van de Loosdrecht, M. S., Posth, C., et al. (2019) ‘Survival of Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherer Ancestry in the Iberian Peninsula’, Curr Biol, 29(7), pp. 1169-1177 e7.
Posth, C.*, Nakatsuka, N.*, Lazaridis, I., et al. (2018) ‘Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America’, Cell, 175(5), pp. 1185-1197 e22.
Amorim, C. E. G.*, Vai, S.*, Posth, C.*, et al. (2018) ‘Understanding 6th-century barbarian social organization and migration through paleogenomics’, Nat Commun, 9(1), pp. 3547.
van de Loosdrecht, M., Bouzouggar, A., Humphrey, L., Posth, C., et al. (2018) ‘Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations’, Science, 360(6388), pp. 548-552.
Posth, C.*, Nagele, K.*, Colleran, H., et al. (2018) ‘Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania’, Nat Ecol Evol, 2, pp. 731-740.
Mathieson, I., Alpaslan-Roodenberg, S., Posth, C., et al. (2018) ‘The genomic history of southeastern Europe’, Nature, 555, pp. 197-203.
Key, F. M., Posth, C., Krause, J., Herbig, A. and Bos, K. I. (2017) ‘Mining Metagenomic Data Sets for Ancient DNA: Recommended Protocols for Authentication’, Trends in Genetics, 33(8), pp. 508-520.
Posth, C., Wissing, C., Kitagawa, K., et al. (2017) ‘Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals’, Nature Communications,
Skoglund, P., Posth, C., Sirak, K., et al. (2016) ‘Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific’, Nature, 538(7626), pp. 510-513.
Fu, Q. M., Posth, C.*, Hajdinjak*, et al. (2016) ‘The genetic history of Ice Age Europe’, Nature, 534(7606), pp. 200-205.
Posth, C., Renaud, G., Mittnik, A., et al. (2016) ‘Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe’, Current Biology, 26(6), pp. 827-33.