Microarray design
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The GenoChip: A New Tool for Genetic Anthropology
Genome Biology and Evolution 2013
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The Diversity of REcent and Ancient huMan (DREAM): a new microarray.
Genome Biology and Evolution 2017
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
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A "Wear and Tear" Hypothesis to Explain Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Frontiers in Neurology 2016
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Neonatal circumcision and prematurity are associated with sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
Journal of Clinical and Translational Research 2018
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The Genetics of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome—Towards a Gene Reference Resource
Genes 2021
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Microbiome & Forensics
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Cartography of opportunistic pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in a tertiary hospital environment
Nature Medicine 2020
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The impact of cross-kingdom molecular forensics on genetic privacy.
Microbiome 2021
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A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance.
Cell 2021
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Population- & Paleo-genetics
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Geographic population structure analysis of worldwide human populations infers their biogeographical origins.
Nature Communications 2014
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Localizing Ashkenazic Jews to primeval villages in the ancient Iranian lands of Ashkenaz.
Genome Biology and Evolution 2016
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Temporal population structure, a genetic dating method for ancient Eurasian genomes from the past 10,000 years.
Cell Reports Methods 2022
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Disorders & Infectious diseases
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Interplay between human STING genotype and bacterial NADase activity regulates inter-individual disease variability
Nature Communications 2023
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Systems biology analysis of human genomes points to key pathways conferring spina bifida risk
PNAS 2021
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Rare variant burden analysis within enhancers identifies CAV1 as an ALS risk gene.
Cell Reports 2020
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Genome Organization
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The genome sequence of Taurine Cattle: a window to ruminant biology and evolution.
Science 2009
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Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid nasonia species.
Science 2010
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A Comparative Study and a Phylogenetic Exploration of the Compositional Architectures of Mammalian Nuclear Genomes.
PloS Computational Biology 2014
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Molecular Evolution
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The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.
Science 2006
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Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera.
Nature 2006
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The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum.
Nature 2006
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Coming up:
News:
28/10/24: Interviewed to BBC Sheffield on Black Awareness Month.
Racism and improving healthcare of minorities
14/10/24: New paper: published in Leukemia by Tang et al.
Functional variant rs9344 at 11q13.3 regulates CCND1 expression in multiple myeloma with t(11;14)
7/10/24: New paper: published in Genome Biology and Evolution by Zhang et al.
Microbiome Geographic Population Structure (mGPS) Detects Fine-Scale Geography
15/8/24: Speaker at the The 8th Annual Conference of the Metagenomics and Metadesign of Subways and Urban Biomes (MetaSUB), Tokyo, Japan.
Leveraging MetaSUB Data for Advancements in Microbial Forensic Applications.
3/6/24: Keynote speaker at the sixth Functional Metagenomics Conference of the International Society for Functional Metagenomics, Skukuza, South Africa.
Creating a fine-scale AntiMicrobial Resistance genes transfer maps.
12/2/24: Speaking to Middle School students in a Swedish school, Lund, Sweden.
Human origins from Africans to the Vikings.
9/12/23: New Preprint: published in BioRxiv by Mohseni and Elhaik
MORPHIX: Resolving sample identification bias in morphometrics analysis with a supervised machine learning package
22/9/23: New paper: published in Frontiers in Microbiology by Zhang et al.
The microbial biodiversity at the archeological site of Tel Megiddo (Israel)
5/8/23: New paper: published in Disease Models and Mechanisms by Eachus et al.
Glucocorticoid Receptor regulates protein chaperone, circadian clock and affective disorder genes in the zebrafish brain
7/7/23: New paper: published in Nature communications by Movert et al.
Interplay between human STING genotype and bacterial NADase activity regulates inter-individual disease variability
11/5/23: New paper: published in Genetics in Medicine Open by Koleilat et al.
Disparity in the detection of chromosome 15 centromere in patients of African ancestry with a plasma cell neoplasm
14/3/23: Speaking at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)'s Seminar, Berlin, Germany.
Fine-scale, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Gene Transfer Maps.
13/3/23: Principal Component Analyses (PCA)-criticism published in Scientific Reports by Elhaik
Reached top #10 most-downloaded Scientific Reports papers in 2022
11/3/23: New popular science article: published in Ancient Origins by Elhaik
Ancient DNA Analysis Reconstructs Legacy of the Biblical Levites
22/2/23: New popular science article: published in Medium by Elhaik
Unearthing Biblical Ashkenaz, the motherland of Ashkenazic Jewry and Yiddish
24/1/23: New popular science article: published in Medium by Elhaik
Rabi PCA can convert anyone to Judaism — for Free
13/1/23: New popular science article: published in Ancient Origins by Elhaik
Are You Related To An Ancient VIP?
30/11/22: Speaking at the Lund University Bioinformatics Infrastructure (LUBI) Seminar, Lund, Sweden.
In search of Viking origins: tackling the big WHEN and WHERE questions.
19/11/22: Speaking at the 7th MetaSUB conference, Lund, Sweden.
Fine-scale, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Gene Transfer Maps.
20/10/22: New paper: published in iScience by Ryon et al.
A history of the MetaSUB consortium: Tracking urban microbes around the globe
7/9/22: New popular science article: published in The Conversation by Elhaik
Radiocarbon dating only works half the time – we may have found the solution
5/9/22: New popular science article: published in Ancient Origins by Elhaik
Senator Warren’s Mishap Proves the Importance of Reliable Genetic Ancestry Tests
1/9/22: New popular science article: published in Ancient Origins by Elhaik
Conclusions About Ancient Populations May be Drastically Wrong Due to Dodgy Method
29/8/22: New paper: published in Scientific Reports by Elhaik.
Principal Component Analyses (PCA)-based findings in population genetic studies are highly biased and must be reevaluated
23/8/22: New popular science article: published in Ancient Origins by Elhaik
Successfully Dating a Mummy Just Got Easier. New Testing Revealed
22/8/22: New paper: published in Cell Reports Methods by Behhnamian et al.
Temporal population structure, a genetic dating method for ancient Eurasian genomes from the past 10,000 years
18/1/22: New paper: published in Neuron by Zhang et al.
Genome-wide identification of the genetic basis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
19/12/21: Speaking at the Ancient Origins Webinar, Online.
From Adam to Jesus: New findings as to the origin of the Israelite tribes
16/12/21: New paper: published in PNAS by Aguiar-Pulido et al.
Systems Biology Analysis of Human Genomes Points to Key Pathways Conferring Spina Bifida Risk
13/10/21: New paper: published in the Journal of Biomolecular Techniques (JBT) by Moore et al.
Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and Myriad Other Applications
27/5/21: New paper: published in Cell by Danko et al.
A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance.
21/5/21: New paper: published in Microbiome by Elhaik et al.
The impact of cross-kingdom molecular forensics on genetic privacy.
19/5/21: New paper: published in BMC Genomics by Carress, Lawson, and Elhaik
Population genetic considerations for using biobanks as international resources in the pandemic era and beyond.
13/4/21: New manuscript: published in bioRxiv by Elhaik
Why most Principal Component Analyses (PCA) in population genetic studies are wrong
5/4/21: New paper: published in Genes by Elhaik and Graur
On the Unfounded Enthusiasm for Soft Selective Sweeps III: The Supervised Machine Learning Algorithm That Isn't.
3/3/21: Speaking at the AI Lund lunch seminar, Lund, Sweden.
Answering the big WHEN and WHERE questions in paleogenomics with machine learning.
25/2/21: New paper: published in The Lancet Microbe by Afshinnekoo et al.
COVID-19 drug practices risk antimicrobial resistance evolution.
2/2/21: New paper: published in Genes by Johannsen et al.
The Genetics of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome—Towards a Gene Reference Resource.
7/1/21: New paper: published in frontiers in Microbiology by Robinson et al.
Forensic applications of microbiomics: a review.
1/1/21: Dr. Elhaik received Docentship at Lund University, Sweden.
19/12/20: Speaking at the Ancient Origins Webinar, Online.
Are You Related to a Viking, Egyptian, Paleo American, or Biblical Israelite?
1/12/20: Docent lecture, Lund, Sweden.
Uncovering the genetic basis of disease and the quest for personalized medicine.
1/12/20: New paper: published in Cell Reports by Cooper-Knock et al.
Rare variant burden analysis within enhancers identifies CAV1 as an ALS risk gene.
11/10/20: New paper: published in NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics by Freeman et al.
aYChr-DB: a database of ancient human Y haplogroups
4/8/20: New book (contribution): By L.S. Santos (in collaboration with Dr. Elhaik)
O Cearense Revelado: uma jornada via DNA desvenda nossa ancestralidade (Cearense Revealed: a journey via DNA unveils our ancestry)
22/7/20: New paper: published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings by Baughn et al.
Targeting TMPRSS2 in SARS-CoV-2 infection
18/2/20: New paper: published in Blood Cancer Journal by Baughn et al.
The CCND1 870G risk allele is enriched in individuals of African ancestry with plasma cell dyscrasias.
2/12/20: New manuscript: published in Preprints.org by Mason-Buck et al.
DNA Based Methods in Intelligence - Moving Towards Metagenomics
8/6/20: New paper: published in Nature Medicine by Chng et al.
Cartography of opportunistic pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in a tertiary hospital environment.
6/2/20: Invited speaker at the GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Settling the When and Where questions in Paleogenomics.
21/11/19: Speaking at the Molecular Cell Biology group Tandem talk 2019, Lund, Sweden.
A genomic dating tool for ancient genomes resolves the origins of hundreds of Eurasian genomes.
13/11/19: Invited session chair to the Genomic Medicine 2019 Nordic conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
7/11/19: Speaking at the Molecular Ecology and Evolution group seminar 2019, Lund, Sweden.
From ancient DNA to ancient Empires using ancient GPS.
2/11/19: New manuscript: published in bioRxiv by Esposito et al.
A genomic dating tool for ancient genomes resolves the origins of hundreds of Eurasian genomes
26/10/19: New paper: published in Applied Cancer Research by the GE4GAC group and colleagues.
Genomics and epidemiology for gastric adenocarcinomas (GE4GAC): a Brazilian initiative to study gastric cancer
14/10/19: Dr. Elhaik was appointed a Associate Professor at Lund University, Sweden.
20/9/19: Invited speaker at the Royal Statistical Society North Eastern Local Group meeting, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.
From Lost Empires to Modern Cities with TPS and ancient GPS
1/9/19: Invited speaker at the COST Charme Istanbul Summer Training School, Istanbul, Turkey.
Why all PCA in population genetics are likely wrong?
30/8/19: Speaking at the MetaSUB Meeting 2019, Istanbul, Turkey.
Microbiome predicts geography on a global scale.
26/7/19: New manuscript: published in bioRxiv by Eachus et al.
Regulation of neuron-specific gene transcription by stress hormone signalling requires synaptic activity in zebrafish
24/6/19: Speaking at the Yorkshire Universities Evolutionary Group Meeting 2019, York, UK.
From ancient DNA to ancient cities in 5 seconds.
18/6/19: New popular science article: published in Ancient Origins by Elhaik
Resurrecting the Ancient Israelites From the Valley of Dry Bones
8/6/19: Speaking on BBC Radio Sheffield on ancient DNA testing and identity.
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Funding history:
Uninterrupted funding from multiple funders in the US, UK, and Sweden during the past 10 years (only large grants that provided cash (>$15,000), not studentships are listed):
Sweden (Overall 2020-2024: 54,000,000 SEK or $5,500,000)
2024-2025 (274,200 SEK) SLU GroGrund, multiple PI.
2024-2026 (1,200,000 SEK) eSSENCE@LU. Co-PI
2024-2026 (366,000 SEK) Erik Philip-Sörensen Foundation. PI
2024-2026 (900,000 SEK) Carl Tryggers, PI
2024-2028 (7,500,000 SEK) Lund University, Co-coordinator.
2024-2024 (250,000 SEK) MERGE-BECC, Co-PI.
2023-2027 (€300,000) Horizons Europe (PhD student), PI.
2023-2027 ($2,000,000) NIH, Collaborator.
2021-2025 (5,600,000 SEK) VR, PI.
2021-2022 (260,000 SEK) Erik Philip-Sörensen Foundation. PI
2020-2024 (12,000,000 SEK) SLU GroGrund, multiple PI.
2020-2021 (500,000 SEK) Crafoord Foundation, PI
2020-2022 ($241,000) NSF, Collaborator
UK (Overall 2014-2019: £1,470,000 or ~$2,250,000)
2018-2019 (£428,000), UK MRC, PI.
2017-2018 ($100,000), Industry, PI
2015-2017 ($150,000), US NSF, co-PI
2016-2017 (£43,000), UK MRC, PI
2015-2019 (£300,000), UK BBRC (PhD stduent), co-PI
2015-2019 (£300,000), The Grantham Foundation (PhD stduent), co-PI
2015-2016 ($252,000), Industry, PI
2014-2016 (£12,000), UK Royal Society, PI
US (Overall 2013: $72,000)
2013-2014 ($72,500), National Geographic Society, PI
All funders:
Editorial and reviewership roles:
Contact details:
Mail Address: Lund University, Department of Biology, Sölvegatan 37, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Email Address: e.elhaik at gmail dot com
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