Scientists from the European University at St. Petersburg, together with colleagues from Moscow State University and the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, have decoded the complete genome of the Russian desman for the first time. The results revealed the species' very low genetic diversity. These data will help develop scientific methods for its conservation and population restoration. A report on the study was published in Izvestia.

Artem Nedoluzhko, head of the Paleogenomics Laboratory, Svetlana Pankova, a research associate at the same laboratory, and their colleagues conducted a DNA analysis of the grasses stuffed in a funerary doll from the Oglakhtinsky burial ground. Information about this discovery appeared in a report on the N+1 portal. Radiocarbon dating of grass from the stuffing of the burial doll indicated the 3rd to the first half of the 5th century. Here is an excerpt from the publication on N+1:

The study was conducted by the European University's Laboratory of Palaeogenomics in collaboration with Genotek and is based on materials from the Hermitage's archaeological expeditions.

Artem Nedoluzhko, scholarly director of the Laboratory of Paleogenomics at the European University, and Professor Antonio Baeza of Clemson University (USA) have organized a special issue for young researchers devoted to evolutionary genomics.

The samples were collected as part of a research project of the European University at St. Petersburg. The project’s goal is to study and reconstruct details of the genetic history of Scythian-type nomads in the Tuva Republic’s “Valley of the Kings”.

The autopsy of the museum specimen will reveal what this ancient predator ate, what bacteria made up its microbiota, and what parasites infected it.

Researchers from the European University at St. Petersburg, the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the State Hermitage Museum conducted the first series of experiments on DNA isolation from historical samples in the clean rooms of the paleogenomics laboratory located at the Solopharm pharmaceutical plant.

European University researchers Artem Nedoluzhko and Fyodor Sharko as lead authors have published an article in the prestigious international journal European Journal of Human Genetics (Q1, impact factor: 5.2). Together with Russian colleagues, they analyzed nuclear DNA from the remains of five representatives of the Koban archaeological culture.

Svetlana Pankova, a researcher at the Laboratory of Paleogenomics of the European University and curator of the Department of Archaeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia of the State Hermitage Museum, spoke at the international scientific conference "Singing Arrows of Maodun": Hunnu from obscurity to empire", dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Sergey Minyaev’s birth (1948-2020).

Artem Nedoluzhko, Development Director of the Laboratory of Paleogenomics at the European University, has joined the editorial board of the journals Frontier in Genetics (Q2, impact factor: 4.77) and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Q1, impact factor: 4.49), published by Frontiers. 

Artem Nedoluzhko, Director for Development of the Laboratory of Paleogenomics of the European University, and a group of researchers from Russian and Norwegian scientific institutions have published an article in the international journal Frontiers in Genetics (Q2, impact factor: 4.772). The work is devoted to the study of the role of intergeneric hybridization and its adaptive potential for evolution. 

Artem Nedoluzhko, the Director for Development at the EUSP Laboratory of Paleogenomics, and a group of researchers from a number of Russian scientific institutions have published a commentary article in the prestigious international journal Nature Communications (Q1, impact factor: 14.919).