A microbial perspective of major historical events in the Southern Cone of the Americas

Project Information

PaleoMetAmerica

Grant agreement ID: 948800

DOI

10.3030/948800

EC signature date 22 October 2020

Start date 1 November 2020

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

INSTITUT PASTEUR
France

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

The Data Management Plan will set how the data will treated. It will define the type of data, which standards will be used to make it interoperable, how they will be made accessible and how they will be curated.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

Local agricultural transition, crisis and migration in the Southern Andes

Author(s): Ramiro Barberena, Pierre Luisi, Paula Novellino, Augusto Tessone, Daniela Guevara, Angelina García, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Petrus le Roux, Claudia Herrera, Graciela Coz, Matías Candito, Maria Lopopolo, Maël Le Corre, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Miren Iraeta Orbegozo, Gaétan Tressières, Gustavo Lucero, Marcelo Cardillo, Julia Merler Carbajo, Gabriela Da Peña, Jorge Suby, Maguelonne Roux, María Eu
Published in: Nature, Issue 653, 2026, Page(s) 124-133, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10233-z

µCT scanning effects on aDNA and a multi-step workflow for archaeological petrous portions

Author(s): Lumila Paula Menéndez, Pierre Luisi, María Clara López-Sosa, Sergio Monteiro Da Silva, Laura T. Buck, Susan C. Kuzminsky, Mirsha Quinto Sánchez, Anne Le Maître, Christine Chappard, Cassandra Rios, Hans Groh, Wara Siles, Gustavo Montiel Hernández, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Juan Manuel Argüelles, Bernardo Yáñez, Constanza de la Fuente Castro, Camila Tamburrini, Vivette Garcia-Deister, Miguel
Published in: PLOS One, Issue 21, 2026, Page(s) e0334682, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0334682

decOM: similarity-based microbial source tracking of ancient oral samples using k-mer-based methods

Author(s): Camila Duitama González, Riccardo Vicedomini, Téo Lemane, Nicolas Rascovan, Hugues Richard, Rayan Chikhi
Published in: Microbiome, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 2049-2618
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-023-01670-3

A 5500-year-old <i>Treponema pallidum</i> genome from Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia

Author(s): Davide Bozzi, Nasreen Z. Broomandkhoshbacht, Miguel Delgado, Jane E. Buikstra, Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim, Kalina Kassadjikova, Melissa Pratt Estrada, Gilbert Greub, Nicolas Rascovan, David Šmajs, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Elizabeth A. Nelson
Published in: Science, Issue 391, 2026, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.adw3020

Anthropic cut marks in extinct megafauna bones from the Pampean region (Argentina) at the last glacial maximum

Author(s): Mariano Del Papa, Martin De Los Reyes, Daniel G. Poiré, Nicolás Rascovan, Guillermo Jofré, Miguel Delgado
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) e0304956, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304956

An Ancient Epstein-Barr Virus Genome Recovered From a Museum Penis Sheath From Papua

Author(s): Anaïs Augias, Gabriel Yaxal Ponce-Soto, Amélie Chimènes, Philippe Charlier, Nicolás Rascovan
Published in: The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2025, ISSN 0022-1899
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiaf189

Facilitating accessible, rapid, and appropriate processing of ancient metagenomic data with AMDirT

Author(s): Maxime Borry, Adrian Forsythe, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Alexander Hübner, Anan Ibrahim, Andrea Quagliariello, Anna E. White, Arthur Kocher, Åshild J. Vågene‬, Bjørn Peare Bartholdy, Diāna Spurīte, Gabriel Yaxal Ponce-Soto, Gunnar Neumann, I-Ting Huang, Ian Light, Irina M. Velsko, Iseult Jackson, Jasmin Frangenberg, Javier G. Serrano, Julien Fumey, Kadir T. Özdoğan, Kelly E. Blevins, Kevi
Published in: F1000Research, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 926, ISSN 2046-1402
Publisher: F1000 Research Ltd.
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.134798.1

Pre-European contact leprosy in the Americas and its current persistence

Author(s): Maria Lopopolo, Charlotte Avanzi, Sebastian Duchene, Pierre Luisi, Alida de Flamingh, Gabriel Yaxal Ponce-Soto, Gaetan Tressieres, Sarah Neumeyer, Frédéric Lemoine, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Miren Iraeta-Orbegozo, Jerome S. Cybulski, Joycelynn Mitchell, Vilma T. Marks, Linda B. Adams, John Lindo, Michael DeGiorgio, Nery Ortiz, Carlos Wiens, Juri Hiebert, Alexandro Bonifaz, Griselda Montes de Oca, Van
Published in: Science, Issue 389, 2025, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.adu7144

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Two pathogens, one disease: Rethinking leprosy diversification through ancient and modern genomes

Author(s): Maria Lopopolo, Charlotte Avanzi, Nicolás Rascovan
Published in: Clinical and Translational Medicine, Issue 16, 2026, ISSN 2001-1326
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ctm2.70631