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Breadcrumb Research A-Z researchers Monica Kelly Principal Laboratory Research Scientist Skoglund lab Ancient Genomics Laboratory Year published 2026 (3) 2025 (5) 2024 (2) 2023 (2) Facet Year published Research topics Chemical Biology & High Throughput (3) Computational & Systems Biology (3) Ecology,Evolution & Ethology (11) Genetics & Genomics (10) Genome Integrity & Repair (3) Infectious Disease (8) Tumour Biology (3) Facet Research topics Crick Pre-Crick Crick publications (12) Facet Crick Pre-Crick Publication type Journal article (11) Method (1) Preprint (1) Primary research (10) Facet Publication type Journal BioRxiv (1) Britannia (1) Communications Biology (1) Current Biology (1) Nature (2) Nature Communications (1) PLOS ONE (1) Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (1) Science (1) Science advances (1) World Archaeology (1) Facet Journal Displaying 1 - 12 of 12Last updated : 05 September 2026 03:36 Giving and taking: negotiating responsible sampling for aDNA and multi-isotope analysis in practice Authors (14) Lucy J Koster Kate Britton Neil Curtis Orsolya Czére Jenna M Dittmar Thomas Booth [...] Frankie Tait Mia Adrianna Williams Alexandre Gilardet Marina Soares Da Silva Linus Girdland-Flink World Archaeology Published 1 January 2025 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Full details Genomic history and selection in Roman and early medieval Britain Preprint Authors (79) Marina Soares Da Silva Thomas Booth Kyriaki Anastasiadou Jesse McCabe Christopher Barrington Monica Kelly [...] Adrián Maldonado Peter Heather James Lee Leo Speidel Pontus Skoglund bioRxiv Published 29 April 2026 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund James Lee Genomics Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Scientific computing Full details Genomic history of early dogs in Europe Authors (68) Anders Bergstrom Anja Furtwängler Sarah Johnston Erika Rosengren Abagail Breidenstein Thomas Booth [...] Olaf Thalmann Greger Larson Verena J Schuenemann Johannes Krause Pontus Skoglund Nature Published 26 March 2026 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Full details Farthest North: Human remains from Heaning Wood Bone Cave, Cumbria, UK and their European context Authors (12) K Warburton R Peterson Christopher Barrington Thomas Booth C Jazwa Monica Kelly [...] Marina Soares Da Silva Pontus Skoglund M Stables Frankie Tait Mia Adrianna Williams Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Published 23 January 2026 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Full details Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian Authors (21) Adeline Morez Jacobs Joel D Irish Ashley Cooke Kyriaki Anastasiadou Christopher Barrington Alexandre Gilardet [...] Alexandra J Nederbragt Edward Inglis Mateja Hajdinjak Pontus Skoglund Linus Girdland-Flink Nature Published 21 August 2025 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Genomics Full details Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland Authors (27) Sahra Talamo Nicole Casaccia Michael P Richards Lukas Wacker Laura Tassoni Adam Nadachowski [...] Jean-Jacques Hublin Mateja Hajdinjak Pontus Skoglund Andrea Picin Paweł Valde-Nowak PLOS ONE Published 25 June 2025 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Full details Ancient Borrelia genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever Authors (32) Pooja Swali Thomas Booth Cedric CS Tan Jesse McCabe Kyriaki Anastasiadou Christopher Barrington [...] Kevin Cootes Ian Armit Maximiliano Gutierrez Lucy van Dorp Pontus Skoglund Science Published 22 May 2025 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Maximiliano Gutierrez Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Genomics Full details North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period Authors (39) Lehti Saag Olga Utevska Stanislav Zadnikov Iryna Shramko Kyrylo Gorbenko Mykola Bandrivskyi [...] Christopher Barrington Alexandre Gilardet Ruairidh Macleod Pontus Skoglund Mark G Thomas Science advances Published 8 January 2025 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Scientific computing Genomics Full details Detection of chromosomal aneuploidy in ancient genomes Authors (31) Kyriaki Anastasiadou Marina Soares Da Silva Thomas Booth Leo Speidel Tony Audsley Christopher Barrington [...] Malin Holst Louise Loe Ian Armit Rick Schulting Pontus Skoglund Communications Biology Published 11 January 2024 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Genomics Full details An individual with Sarmatian-related ancestry in Roman Britain Authors (14) Marina Soares Da Silva Thomas Booth Joanna Moore Kyriaki Anastasiadou Don Walker Alexandre Gilardet [...] Michael Henderson Alex Smith David Bowsher Janet Montgomery Pontus Skoglund Current Biology Published 8 January 2024 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Scientific computing Genomics Full details Correction to Redfern et al. (2017) ‘Written in Bone’: New discoveries about the lives of Roman Londoners, Britannia 48, 253–77 Authors (8) Rebecca Redfern Kyriaki Anastasiadou Marina Soares Da Silva Alexandre Gilardet Monica Kelly Mia Adrianna Williams Thomas Booth Pontus Skoglund Britannia Published 1 November 2023 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Genomics Full details Yersinia pestis genomes reveal plague in Britain 4000 years ago Authors (24) Pooja Swali Rick Schulting Alexandre Gilardet Monica Kelly Kyriaki Anastasiadou Isabelle Glocke [...] Marina Soares Da Silva Mateja Hajdinjak Anders Bergstrom Thomas Booth Pontus Skoglund Nature Communications Published 22 May 2023 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Genomics Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Full details
Giving and taking: negotiating responsible sampling for aDNA and multi-isotope analysis in practice Authors (14) Lucy J Koster Kate Britton Neil Curtis Orsolya Czére Jenna M Dittmar Thomas Booth [...] Frankie Tait Mia Adrianna Williams Alexandre Gilardet Marina Soares Da Silva Linus Girdland-Flink World Archaeology Published 1 January 2025 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Full details
Genomic history and selection in Roman and early medieval Britain Preprint Authors (79) Marina Soares Da Silva Thomas Booth Kyriaki Anastasiadou Jesse McCabe Christopher Barrington Monica Kelly [...] Adrián Maldonado Peter Heather James Lee Leo Speidel Pontus Skoglund bioRxiv Published 29 April 2026 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund James Lee Genomics Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Scientific computing Full details
Genomic history of early dogs in Europe Authors (68) Anders Bergstrom Anja Furtwängler Sarah Johnston Erika Rosengren Abagail Breidenstein Thomas Booth [...] Olaf Thalmann Greger Larson Verena J Schuenemann Johannes Krause Pontus Skoglund Nature Published 26 March 2026 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Full details
Farthest North: Human remains from Heaning Wood Bone Cave, Cumbria, UK and their European context Authors (12) K Warburton R Peterson Christopher Barrington Thomas Booth C Jazwa Monica Kelly [...] Marina Soares Da Silva Pontus Skoglund M Stables Frankie Tait Mia Adrianna Williams Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Published 23 January 2026 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Full details
Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian Authors (21) Adeline Morez Jacobs Joel D Irish Ashley Cooke Kyriaki Anastasiadou Christopher Barrington Alexandre Gilardet [...] Alexandra J Nederbragt Edward Inglis Mateja Hajdinjak Pontus Skoglund Linus Girdland-Flink Nature Published 21 August 2025 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Genomics Full details
Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland Authors (27) Sahra Talamo Nicole Casaccia Michael P Richards Lukas Wacker Laura Tassoni Adam Nadachowski [...] Jean-Jacques Hublin Mateja Hajdinjak Pontus Skoglund Andrea Picin Paweł Valde-Nowak PLOS ONE Published 25 June 2025 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Full details
Ancient Borrelia genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever Authors (32) Pooja Swali Thomas Booth Cedric CS Tan Jesse McCabe Kyriaki Anastasiadou Christopher Barrington [...] Kevin Cootes Ian Armit Maximiliano Gutierrez Lucy van Dorp Pontus Skoglund Science Published 22 May 2025 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Maximiliano Gutierrez Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Genomics Full details
North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period Authors (39) Lehti Saag Olga Utevska Stanislav Zadnikov Iryna Shramko Kyrylo Gorbenko Mykola Bandrivskyi [...] Christopher Barrington Alexandre Gilardet Ruairidh Macleod Pontus Skoglund Mark G Thomas Science advances Published 8 January 2025 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Scientific computing Genomics Full details
Detection of chromosomal aneuploidy in ancient genomes Authors (31) Kyriaki Anastasiadou Marina Soares Da Silva Thomas Booth Leo Speidel Tony Audsley Christopher Barrington [...] Malin Holst Louise Loe Ian Armit Rick Schulting Pontus Skoglund Communications Biology Published 11 January 2024 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Genomics Full details
An individual with Sarmatian-related ancestry in Roman Britain Authors (14) Marina Soares Da Silva Thomas Booth Joanna Moore Kyriaki Anastasiadou Don Walker Alexandre Gilardet [...] Michael Henderson Alex Smith David Bowsher Janet Montgomery Pontus Skoglund Current Biology Published 8 January 2024 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Scientific computing Genomics Full details
Correction to Redfern et al. (2017) ‘Written in Bone’: New discoveries about the lives of Roman Londoners, Britannia 48, 253–77 Authors (8) Rebecca Redfern Kyriaki Anastasiadou Marina Soares Da Silva Alexandre Gilardet Monica Kelly Mia Adrianna Williams Thomas Booth Pontus Skoglund Britannia Published 1 November 2023 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Genomics Full details
Yersinia pestis genomes reveal plague in Britain 4000 years ago Authors (24) Pooja Swali Rick Schulting Alexandre Gilardet Monica Kelly Kyriaki Anastasiadou Isabelle Glocke [...] Marina Soares Da Silva Mateja Hajdinjak Anders Bergstrom Thomas Booth Pontus Skoglund Nature Communications Published 22 May 2023 Crick labs/ facilities Pontus Skoglund Genomics Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Full details
