Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, October 2, 2026
Svante Pääbo, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Archaic Genomics
The Fairfield Osborn Jr. Memorial Lecture and Postdoctoral Researchers’ Sponsored Friday Lecture
Recommended Readings:
Bossoms Mesa, Alba, et al. “Genetic diversity of late Neanderthals in northwestern Europe.” Nature (2026): 1-9.
Massilani, Diyendo, et al. “A high-coverage Neandertal genome from the Altai Mountains reveals population structure among Neandertals.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123.13 (2026): e2534576123.
Fu, Qiaomei, et al. “Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the> 146,000-year-old Harbin cranium.” Cell 188.15 (2025): 3919-3926.
Jacobs, Zenobia, et al. “Pleistocene chronology and history of hominins and fauna at Denisova Cave.” Nature communications 16.1 (2025): 4738.
Zeberg, Hugo, Mattias Jakobsson, and Svante Pääbo. “The genetic changes that shaped Neandertals, Denisovans, and modern humans.” Cell 187.5 (2024): 1047-1058.
