Communicable Disease in the Age of Seafaring

Project Information

CoDisEASe

Grant agreement ID: 805268

DOI 10.3030/805268

Project closed

EC signature date 7 November 2018

Start date 1 December 2018

End date 30 November 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 490 043,00

EU contribution € 1 490 043,00

Coordinated by

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

A morphological and molecular approach to investigating infectious disease in early medieval Iberia: The necropolis of La Olmeda (Palencia, Spain)

Author(s): L. Coppola Bove, C. L. Kirkpatrick, A. Vigil‐Escalera Guirado, M. C. Botella López, K. I. Bos
Published in: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Issue 185, 2024, ISSN 2692-7691
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24994

Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture

Author(s): Arev P. Sümer, Hélène Rougier, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Yilei Huang, Leonardo N. M. Iasi, Elena Essel, Alba Bossoms Mesa, Anja Furtwaengler, Stéphane Peyrégne, Cesare de Filippo, Adam B. Rohrlach, Federica Pierini, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Helen Fewlass, Elena I. Zavala, Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Raffaela A. Bianco, Anna Schmidt, Julia Zorn, Birgit Nickel, Anna Patova, Cosimo Posth, Geoff M. Smith,
Published in: Nature, Issue 638, 2025, Page(s) 711-717, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08420-x

Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution

Author(s): Arthur Kocher; Luka Papac; Rodrigo Barquera; Felix M. Key; Maria A. Spyrou; Ron Hübler; Adam B. Rohrlach; Franziska Aron; Raphaela Stahl; Antje Wissgott; Florian van Bömmel; Maria Pfefferkorn; Alissa Mittnik; Vanessa Villalba-Mouco; Gunnar U. Neumann; Maïté Rivollat; Marieke S. van de Loosdrecht; Kerttu Majander; Rezeda I. Tukhbatova; Lyazzat Musralina; Ayshin Ghalichi; Sandra Penske; Susanna
Published in: Science, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abi5658

Geographically dispersed zoonotic tuberculosis in pre-contact South American human populations

Author(s): Åshild J. Vågene, Tanvi P. Honap, Kelly M. Harkins, Michael S. Rosenberg, Karen Giffin, Felipe Cárdenas-Arroyo, Laura Paloma Leguizamón, Judith Arnett, Jane E. Buikstra, Alexander Herbig, Johannes Krause, Anne C. Stone, Kirsten I. Bos
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28562-8

14th century Yersinia pestis genomes support emergence of pestis secunda within Europe

Author(s): Cody E. Parker, Alina N. Hiss, Maria A. Spyrou, Gunnar U. Neumann, Philip Slavin, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Sarah Nagel, Xandra Dalidowski, Susanne Friederich, Johannes Krause, Alexander Herbig, Wolfgang Haak, Kirsten I. Bos
Published in: PLOS Pathogens, Issue 19, 2023, Page(s) e1011404, ISSN 1553-7374
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011404

Optimized Bone Sampling Protocols for the Retrieval of Ancient DNA from Archaeological Remains

Author(s): Cody E. Parker, Kirsten I. Bos, Wolfgang Haak, Johannes Krause
Published in: Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2024, ISSN 1940-087X
Publisher: MYJoVE Corporation
DOI: 10.3791/63250-v

4,000-year-old Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from Chile reveal long establishment of Hansen’s disease in the Americas

Author(s): Darío A. Ramirez, T. Lesley Sitter, Sanni Översti, María José Herrera-Soto, Nicolás Pastor, Oscar Eduardo Fontana-Silva, Casey L. Kirkpatrick, José Castelleti-Dellepiane, Rodrigo Nores, Kirsten I. Bos
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2025, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02771-y

Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria

Author(s): Megan Michel, Eirini Skourtanioti, Federica Pierini, Evelyn K. Guevara, Angela Mötsch, Arthur Kocher, Rodrigo Barquera, Raffaela A. Bianco, Selina Carlhoff, Lorenza Coppola Bove, Suzanne Freilich, Karen Giffin, Taylor Hermes, Alina Hiß, Florian Knolle, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Gunnar U. Neumann, Luka Papac, Sandra Penske, Adam B. Rohrlach, Nada Salem, Lena Semerau, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Isabelle A
Published in: Nature, Issue 631, 2024, Page(s) 125-133, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07546-2

A treponemal genome from an historic plague victim supports a recent emergence of yaws and its presence in 15th century Europe

Author(s): Karen Giffin, Aditya Kumar Lankapalli, Susanna Sabin, Maria A. Spyrou, Cosimo Posth, Justina Kozakaitė, Ronny Friedrich, Žydrūnė Miliauskienė, Rimantas Jankauskas, Alexander Herbig, Kirsten I. Bos
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-66012-x

A systematic investigation of human DNA preservation in medieval skeletons

Author(s): Cody Parker, Adam B. Rohrlach, Susanne Friederich, Sarah Nagel, Matthias Meyer, Johannes Krause, Kirsten I. Bos, Wolfgang Haak
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-75163-w

Ancient genomes reveal a deep history of Treponema pallidum in the Americas

Author(s): Rodrigo Barquera, T. Lesley Sitter, Casey L. Kirkpatrick, Darío A. Ramirez, Arthur Kocher, Maria A. Spyrou, Lourdes R. Couoh, Jorge A. Talavera-González, Mario Castro, Tanya von Hunnius, Evelyn K. Guevara, W. Derek Hamilton, Patrick Roberts, Erin Scott, Mariana Fabra, Gabriela V. Da Peña, Aryel Pacheco, Mónica Rodriguez, Eugenio Aspillaga, Anthi Tiliakou, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Karen L. Giffin,
Published in: Nature, Issue 640, 2025, Page(s) 186-193, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08515-5

Estimating molecular preservation of the intestinal microbiome via metagenomic analyses of latrine sediments from two medieval cities.

Author(s): Sabin, Susanna; Yeh, Hui-Yuan; Pluskowski, Aleks; Clamer, Christa; Mitchell, Piers D.; Bos, Kirsten I.
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.17863/cam.58293