2025

• Urban, C., Vrancken, B., Patrono, L.V., Düx, A., Le Vu M., Matthes, K.L., Burkhard-Koren, N.M., Widulin, N, Schnalke, T. Carraro, S., Rühli, F., Lemey, P., Staub, K., Calvignac-Spencer, S., Schuenemann, V.J. (2025) An ancient influenza genome from Switzerland allows deeper insights into host adaptation during the 1918 flu pandemic in Europe. BMC Biology 23, 179 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-025-02282-z 
• Gupta, Y., Avanzi, C., Vera-Cabrera, L., Paniz Mondolfi, A.E., Schuenemann, V.J., Singh, P. (2025) Editorial: Advances in the molecular epidemiology and diagnostics of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases. Front. Trop. Dis. 6:1622530. https://doi.org/10.3389/fitd.2025.1622530 
• Pla-Díaz, M., Akgül, G., Molak, M., du Plessis, L., Panagiotopoulou, H., Doan, K., Bogdanowicz, W., Dąbrowski, P., Oziembłowski, M., Kwiatkowska, B., Szczurowski, J., Grzelak, J., Arora, N., Majander, K., González-Candelas, F., Schuenemann, V. (2025) Insights into Treponema pallidum genomics from modern and ancient genomes using a novel mapping strategy. BMC Biol 23, 7 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-02108-4 
• Runge, A.K.W., Light-Maka, I., Massy, K., Keller, M., Trixl, S., Kabral, H., Kirkpatrick, C.L., Bos, K., Eger, J., Ernée, M., Kyselý, R., Hochmuth, M., Poradowski, D., Chrószcz, A., Benecke, N., Daněček, D., Klementová, J., Nagler, A., Kalmykov, A.A., Kantorovich, A.R., Maslov, V.E., Belinskiy, A.B., Scheib, C.L., Toderas, M., Hansen, S., Stockhammer, P.W., Kaniuth, K., Uhl, R., Reinhold, S., Gillis, R.E. Nelson, E.A., Pawlowska, K., Key, F.M. (2025) Probing the zooarchaeological record across time and space for ancient pathogens [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.12.637901 
• Ziegler, E., Matthes, K.L., Middelkamp P.W., Schuenemann, V.J., Althaus, C.L., Rühli, F., Staub, K. (2025) Retrospective modelling of the disease and mortality burden of the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic in Zurich, Switzerland. Epidemics, Volume 50, 2025, 100813, ISSN 1755-4365, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2025.100813 

2024

• Hämmerle, M., Guellil, M., Trgovec-Greif, L., Cheronet, O., Sawyer, S., Ruiz-Gartzia, I., Lizano, E., Rymbekova, A., Gelabert, P., Bernadi, P., Han, S., Rattei, T., Schünemann, V.J., Marques-Bonet, T., Guschanski, K., Calvignac-Spencer, S., Pinhasi, R., Kuhlwilm, M. (2024) Screening great ape museum specimens for DNA viruses. Scientific Reports 14, 29806 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80780-w 
• Keller, M., Bönisch, E., Kahn, N., Krause, J., Orlando, L. (2024) Paläogenetische Analysen am spätsaalezeitlichen Pferd von Jänschwalde, Lkr. Spree-Neisse, Veröffentlichungen zur brandenburgischen Landesarchäologie, 50, 7–12.
• Michel, M., Skourtanioti, E., Pierini, F., … Giffin, K., ..., Majander, K. et al. (2024) Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria. Nature 631, 125–133 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07546-2 
• Majander, K., Pla-Díaz, M., du Plessis, L., Arora, N., Filippini, J., Pezo-Lanfranco, L. Eggers, S., Gonzáles-Candelas, F., Schuenemann, V.J. (2024) Redefining the treponemal history through pre-Columbian genomes from Brazil. Nature 627, 182–188 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06965-x
• Peters, C., Richter, K.K., Wilkin, S., Sören, S., Mir-Makhamad, B., Fernandes, R., Maksudov, F., Mirzaakhmedov, S., Rahmonov, H., Schirmer, S., Ashastina, K.,Begmatov, A., Frachetti, M. Kurbanov, S., Shenkar, M., Hermes, T., Kidd, F., Omelchenko, A., Huber, B., Boivin, N., Wang, S., Lurje, P., von Baeyer, M., Dal Martello, R., Spengler, R.N.III (2024) Archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia. Nat Commun 15, 2697 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46093-2 
• Rayo, E., Ulrich, G.F., Zemp, N., Greeff, M., Schünemann, V.J., Widmer, A., Fischer, M.C. (2024) Minimally destructive hDNA extraction method for retrospective genetics of pinned historical Lepidoptera specimens. Scientific  Reports 14, 12875 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-63587-7 
• Urban, C.,Blom, A.A., Avanzi, C., Walker-Meikle, K., Warren, A.K., White-Iribhogbe, K., Turle, R., Marter, P., Dawson-Hobbis, H., Roffey, S., Inskip, S.A., Schuenemann, V.J. (2024 in press) Ancient Mycobacterium leprae genome reveals medieval English red squirrels as animal leprosy host. Current Biology Volume 34, Issue 10, 20 May 2024, Pages 2221-2230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.006
• Wilkin, S., Bayarsaikhan, J., Ganbold, A., Batsuuri, A., Ishtseren, L., Nakamura, D., Eregzen, G., Ventresca-Miller, A., Miller, B.K. (2024) Cauldrons of Bronze Age nomads reveals 2700 year old yak milk and the deep antiquity of food preparation techniques. Scientific Reports 14, 11625 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-60607-4
• Wilkin, S., Lanigan, L.T., Montes, N., Sharma, M., Avanzi, C., Sejdiu, D., Majander, K., Pfrengle, S., Chiang, Y., Kunz, L., Dittmann, A., Rühli, F., Singh, P., Fontanals Coll, M., Collins, M.J., Taurozzi, A.J., Schuenemann, V.J. (2024) Sequential trypsin and ProAlanase digestions unearth immunological protein biomarkers shrouded by skeletal collagen. iScience, 27/5, 109663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109663 

2023

• Furtwängler, A.,  Baumann, C., Majander, K., Wilkin, S., Tomoum, N., Rühli, F., Jaeggi, A. V., Eppenberger, P., Bender, N., Schuenemann, V.J. (2023) The Mummy Explorer—a self-regulated open-access online teaching tool. Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, 11(1), 129-138.  https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoad009 
• Loponte, D., Acosta, A., Gascue, A., Pfrengle, S., Schuenemann, V.J., Bortolotto, N., Carbonera, M., García Esponda, C., Voglino, D., Milheira, R., Ferrari, A., Borges, C. (2023) The Southernmost 13/150 Pre-Columbian Dogs in the Americas: Phenotype, Chronology, Diet and Genetics. Environmental Archaeology, 28(6), 443-474. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.1922985 
• Menéndez, L.P., Barbieri, C., López Cruz, I.G., Schmelzle, T., Breidenstein, A., Barquera, R., Borzi, G., Schuenemann, V.J., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. (2023) On Roth’s ”human fossil” from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: morphological and genetic analysis. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 142(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00293-3 
• Neumann, G.U., Kanz, F., Furtwängler, A., Fiebig, K., Verdianu, D., Stockhammer, P.W., Rebay-Salisbury, K. (2023) Yersinia pestis in the Early Bronze Age Cemetery of Drasenhofen. The Currently, Oldest Plague Deaths in Austria in their Cultural-Historical Context. Archaeologia Austriaca, 107, 137-158. https://doi.org/10.1553/archaeologia107s137 
• Wang, K., Prüfer, K., Krause-Kyora, B., Childebayeva, A., Schuenemann, V.J., Coia, V., Maixner, F., Zink, A., Schiffels, S., Krause, J. (2023) High-coverage genome of the Tyrolean Iceman reveals unusually high Anatolian farmer ancestry. Cell Genomics, 3(9). doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100377

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