Mapping The Neolithic Expansion In The Mediterranean: A Scientific Collective To Promote Archaeogenomics And Evolutionary Biology Research In Turkey

Project Information

NEOMATRIX

Grant agreement ID: 952317

DOI

10.3030/952317

Project closed

EC signature date 26 June 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 December 2024

Funded under

• Twinning of research institutions

Total cost

€ 884 425,00

EU contribution

€ 884 425,00

Coordinated by

MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Türkiye

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Deliverables

Other (2)

Two joint research papers on the Neolithic expansion
Published articles from scientific workshops

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Recorded videos with TED ED lessons
NEOMATRIX website

Documents, reports (2)

Report from the Workshop 3 (Public dissemination)

Report from the Workshop 3 (Public dissemination) with journalists

Exhibitions and reports on exhibitions

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük

Author(s): Eren Yüncü, Ayça Küçükakdağ Doğu, Damla Kaptan, Muhammed Sıddık Kılıç, Camilla Mazzucato, Merve N. Güler, Elifnaz Eker, Büşra Katırcıoğlu, Maciej Chyleński, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Ekin Sağlıcan, Gözde Atağ, Defne Bozkurt, Jessica Pearson, Arda Sevkar, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Marco Milella, Cansu Karamurat, Şevval Aktürk, Emre Deniz Yurttaş, Nisan Yıldız, Dilek Koptek
Published in: Science, Issue 388, 2025, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.adr2915

Benchmarking kinship estimation tools for ancient genomes using pedigree simulations

Author(s): Şevval Aktürk, Igor Mapelli, Merve N. Güler, Kanat Gürün, Büşra Katırcıoğlu, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Ekin Sağlıcan, Mehmet Çetin, Reyhan Yaka, Elif Sürer, Gözde Atağ, Sevim Seda Çokoğlu, Arda Sevkar, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Dilek Koptekin, Mehmet Somel
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13960

The Population History of Domestic Sheep Revealed by Paleogenomes

Author(s): Damla Kaptan, Gözde Atağ, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Pedro Morell Miranda, Ali Akbaba, Eren Yüncü, Aleksey Buluktaev, Mohammad Foad Abazari, Sevgi Yorulmaz, Duygu Deniz Kazancı, Ayça Küçükakdağ Doğu, Yasin Gökhan Çakan, Rana Özbal, Fokke Gerritsen, Bea De Cupere, Refik Duru, Gülsün Umurtak, Benjamin S Arbuckle, Douglas Baird, Özlem Çevik, Erhan Bıçakçı, Can Yumni Gündem, Ev
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 41, 2024, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msae158

A genomic snapshot of demographic and cultural dynamism in Upper Mesopotamia during the Neolithic Transition

Author(s): N. Ezgi Altınışık, Duygu Deniz Kazancı, Ayça Aydoğan, Hasan Can Gemici, Ömür Dilek Erdal, Savaş Sarıaltun, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Dilek Koptekin, Kanat Gürün, Ekin Sağlıcan, Daniel Fernandes, Gökhan Çakan, Meliha Melis Koruyucu, Vendela Kempe Lagerholm, Cansu Karamurat, Mustafa Özkan, Gülşah Merve Kılınç, Arda Sevkar, Elif Sürer, Anders Götherström, Çiğdem Atakuman,
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 8, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo3609

<scp>DeepKin</scp> : Predicting Relatedness From Low‐Coverage Genomes and Palaeogenomes With Convolutional Neural Networks

Author(s): Merve N. Güler, Ardan Yılmaz, Büşra Katırcıoğlu, Sarp Kantar, Tara Ekin Ünver, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Emre Akbas, Mehmet Somel
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.70032

Comparison and optimization of protocols and whole-genome capture conditions for ancient DNA samples

Author(s): Reyhan Yaka, null Maja Krzewińska, Vendela Kempe Lagerholm, Anna Linderholm, Füsun Özer, Mehmet Somel, Anders Götherström
Published in: BioTechniques, Issue 76, 2024, Page(s) 221-228, ISSN 0736-6205
Publisher: Eaton Publishing Co.
DOI: 10.2144/btn-2023-0107

Population Genomic History of the Endangered Anatolian and Cyprian Mouflons in Relation to Worldwide Wild, Feral, and Domestic Sheep Lineages

Author(s): Gözde Atağ, Damla Kaptan, Eren Yüncü, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Paolo Mereu, Monica Pirastru, Mario Barbato, Giovanni Giuseppe Leoni, Merve Nur Güler, Tuğçe Er, Elifnaz Eker, Tunca Deniz Yazıcı, Muhammed Sıddık Kılıç, Nefize Ezgi Altınışık, Ecem Ayşe Çelik, Pedro Morell Miranda, Marianne Dehasque, Viviana Floridia, Anders Götherström, Cemal Can Bilgin, İnci Togan, Torsten G
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 16, 2024, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evae090

An explanation for the sister repulsion phenomenon in Patterson's <i>f</i>-statistics

Author(s): Gözde Atağ, Shamam Waldman, Shai Carmi, Mehmet Somel
Published in: GENETICS, Issue 228, 2024, ISSN 1943-2631
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyae144

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean

Author(s): Dilek Koptekin, Eren Yüncü, Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Nikolaos Psonis, Natalia Kashuba, Sevgi Yorulmaz, Robert George, Duygu Deniz Kazancı, Damla Kaptan, Kanat Gürün, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Hasan Can Gemici, Despoina Vassou, Evangelia Daskalaki, Cansu Karamurat, Vendela K. Lagerholm, Ömür Dilek Erdal, Emrah Kırdök, Aurelio Marangoni, Andreas Schachner, Handan Ü
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 33, 2024, Page(s) 41-57.e15, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.034

The first complete genome of the extinct European wild ass (<i>Equus hemionus hydruntinus</i>)

Author(s): Mustafa Özkan, Kanat Gürün, Eren Yüncü, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Gözde Atağ, Ali Akbaba, Fatma Rabia Fidan, Ekin Sağlıcan, Ezgi N. Altınışık, Dilek Koptekin, Kamilla Pawłowska, Ian Hodder, Sarah E. Adcock, Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sharon R. Steadman, Gregory McMahon, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, C. Can Bilgin, İnci Togan, Eva‐Maria Geigl, Anders Götherström, Thierry Grange, Füsun Özer,
Published in: Molecular Ecology, Issue 33, 2024, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.17440

Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean

Author(s): Dilek Koptekin, Ayça Aydoğan, Cansu Karamurat, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, D. Deniz Kazancı, Ayça Küçükakdağ Doğu, Damla Kaptan, Hasan Can Gemici, Eren Yüncü, Hannah M. Moots, Gülsün Umurtak, Refik Duru, Erkan Fidan, Özlem Çevik, Burçin Erdoğu, Taner Korkut, Christopher J. Knüsel, Scott Haddow, Clark Spencer Larsen, Rana Özbal, Fokke Gerritsen, Eylem Özdoğ
Published in: Science, Issue 388, 2025, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.adr3326