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Olivia Cheronet, MSc MRes PhD
T: +43-1-4277-54710
Summer term 2026
Winter term 2025
300083 UE Einführung in die Bioarchäologie - Möglichkeiten, Methoden und Grundlagen des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens mit archäologischen Skelettresten
300123 UE Practical course on aDNA methods
Hajdu, T., Borbély, N., Bernert, Z., Buzár, Á., Szeniczey, T., Major, I., Cavazzuti, C., Molnár, M., Horváth, A., Palcsu, L., Árpád Kelentey, B., Angyal, J., Mende, B. G., Jakab, K., Lisztes-Szabó, Z., Takács, Á., Cheronet, O., Pinhasi, R., Reich, D. E., ... Szécsényi-Nagy, A. (2026). Murder in cold blood? Forensic and bioarchaeological identification of the skeletal remains of Béla, Duke of Macsó (c. 1245–1272). Forensic Science International: Genetics, 81, Article 103381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2025.103381
Marjanović, D., Šarac, J., Auguštin, D. H., Novak, M., Bašić, Ž., Kružić, I., Novokmet, N., Cheronet, O., Gelabert, P., Pinhasi, R., Lauc, G., & Primorac, D. (2026). At the Crossroads of Continents: Ancient DNA Insights into the Maternal and Paternal Population History of Croatia. Genes. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes17010080
Furtwängler, A., Rebay-Salisbury, K., Neumann, G. U., Kanz, F., Ringbauer, H., Bianco, R. A., Schmidt, T., Semerau, L., Radzevičiūtė, R., Barquera, R., Rohland, N., Stewardson, K., Workman, J. N., Curtis, E., Zalzala, F., Callan, K., Iliev, L., Qiu, L., Cheronet, O., ... Mittnik, A. (2025). Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria. Nature Communications, 17(1). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67906-y
Gyuris, B., Vyazov, L., Türk, A., Flegontov, P., Szeifert, B., Langó, P., Mende, B. G., Csáky, V., Chizhevskiy, A. A., Gazimzyanov, I. R., Khokhlov, A. A., Kolonskikh, A. G., Matveeva, N. P., Ruslanova, R. R., Rykun, M. P., Sitdikov, A., Volkova, E. V., Botalov, S. G., Bugrov, D. G., ... Szécsényi-Nagy, A. (2025). Long shared haplotypes identify the southern Urals as a primary source for the 10th-century Hungarians. Cell, 188(21), 6064-6078.e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.09.002
Zeng, T. C., Vyazov, L. A., Kim, A., Flegontov, P., Sirak, K., Maier, R., Lazaridis, I., Akbari, A., Frachetti, M., Tishkin, A. A., Ryabogina, N. E., Agapov, S. A., Agapov, D. S., Alekseev, A. N., Boeskorov, G. G., Derevianko, A. P., Dyakonov, V. M., Enshin, D. N., Fribus, A. V., ... Reich, D. (2025). Ancient DNA reveals the prehistory of the Uralic and Yeniseian peoples. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09189-3
Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Virag, C., Jakab, K., Rohland, N., Ringbauer, H., Anders , A., Raczky, P., Hajdu, T., Kiss, K., Szeniczey, T., Évinger, S., Keszi, T., Virág, Z. M., Cheronet, O., Mallick, S., Akbari, A., Pinhasi, R., Reich, D., & Siklósi, Z. (2025). Ancient DNA reveals diverse community organizations in the 5th millennium BCE Carpathian Basin. Nature Communications, 5318, Article 5318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60368-2
Lipson, M., Ringbauer, H., Lucarini, G., Aouadi, N., Aoudia, L., Belhouchet, L., Cheronet, O., Dahmani, A.-R., Genchi, F., La Pastina, F., Lucci, M., de Lumley, H., Mansouri, N., Nava, A., Touj, F., Mallick, S., Rohland, N., Coppa, A., Pinhasi, R., & Reich, D. (2025). High continuity of forager ancestry in the Neolithic period of the eastern Maghreb. Nature, 641, 925-931. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08699-4
Jaouen, K., Cheronet, O., Colleter, R., Blanchet, S., & Talamo, S. (2025). Les populations du Néolithique et de l’âge du Bronze: analyses génétiques et isotopiques en presqu’île de Quiberon. In Peuple de la mer? : Le Campaniforme en Bretagne et au-delà (pp. 88-91). Société polymathique du Morbihan.
Olalde, I., Altena, E., Bourgeois, Q., Fokkens, H., Amkreutz, L., Deguilloux, M.-F., Fichera, A., Flas, D., Gandini, F., Kegler, J. F., Kootker, L. M., Leijnse, K., Kooijmans, L. L., Lauwerier, R., Miller, R., Molthof, H., Noiret, P., Raemaekers, D. C. M., Rivollat, M., ... Reich, D. (2025). Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.24.644985
Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Anthony, D., Vyazov, L., Fournier, R., Ringbauer, H., Olalde, I., Khokhlov, A. A., Kitov, E. P., Shishlina, N. I., Ailincăi, S. C., Agapov, D. S., Agapov, S. A., Batieva, E., Bauyrzhan, B., Bereczki, Z., Buzhilova, A., Changmai, P., Chizhevsky, A. A., ... Reich, D. (2025). The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans. Nature, 639(8053), 132-142. Article 8912. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08531-5
Gelabert, P., Oberreiter, V., Straus, L. G., Morales, M. R. G., Sawyer, S., Marín-Arroyo, A. B., Geiling, J. M., Exler, F., Brueck, F., Franz, S., Cano, F. T., Szedlacsek, S., Zelger, E., Hämmerle, M., Zagorc, B., Llanos-Lizcano, A., Cheronet, O., Tejero, J.-M., Rattei, T., ... Pinhasi, R. (2025). Author Correction: A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain. Nature Communications, 16(1), 779. Article 779. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56198-x
Weber, G. W., Šimková, P. G., Fernandes, D. M., Cheronet, O., Úry, E., Wilfing, H., Matiasek, K., Llano-Lizcano, A., Gelabert, P., Trinks, I., Douka, K., Ladstätter, S., Higham, T., Steskal, M., & Pinhasi, R. (2025). The cranium from the Octagon in Ephesos. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 943. Article 943. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83870-x
Llanos-Lizcano, A., Hämmerle, M., Sperduti, A., Sawyer, S., Zagorc, B., Özdoğan, K. T., Guellil, M., Cheronet, O., Kuhlwilm, M., Pinhasi, R., & Gelabert, P. (2025). Intra-individual variability in ancient plasmodium DNA recovery highlights need for enhanced sampling. Scientific Reports, 15, Article 757. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-85038-z
Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Virag, C., Jakab, K., Rohland, N., Ringbauer, H., Anders, A., Raczky, P., Hajdu, T., Kiss, K., Szeniczey, T., Évinger, S., Keszi, T., Virág, Z. M., Cheronet, O., Mallick, S., Akbari, A., Pinhasi, R., Reich, D., & Siklósi, Z. (2025). Ancient DNA reveals diverse community organizations in the 5th millennium BCE Carpathian Basin. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.02.631136
Gelabert, P., Oberreiter, V., Straus, L. G., Morales, M. R. G., Sawyer, S., Marín-Arroyo, A. B., Geiling, J. M., Exler, F., Brueck, F., Franz, S., Cano, F. T., Szedlacsek, S., Zelger, E., Hämmerle, M., Zagorc, B., Llanos-Lizcano, A., Cheronet, O., Tejero, J.-M., Rattei, T., ... Pinhasi, R. (2025). A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain. Nature Communications, 16(1), Article 107. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55740-7
PERE, GELABERT., Bickle, P. F., Hofmann, D., Teschler-Nicola, M. E., Anders, A., Huang, X., Hämmerle, M., Olalde, I., Fournier, R., Ringbauer, H., Akbari, A., Cheronet, O., Lazaridis, I., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Fernandes, D. M., Buttinger, K., Callan, K., Candilio, F., Morante, G. B., ... Reich, D. (2025). Social and genetic diversity in first farmers of central Europe. Nature Human Behaviour, 9(1), 53-64. Article 19544. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02034-z
Sawyer, S., Gelabert, P., Yakir, B., Llanos-Lizcano, A., Sperduti, A., Bondioli, L., Cheronet, O., Neugebauer-Maresch, C., Teschler-Nicola, M., Novak, M., Pap, I., Szikossy, I., Hajdu, T., Moiseyev, V., Gromov, A., Zariņa, G., Meshorer, E., Carmel, L., & Pinhasi, R. (2024). Improved detection of methylation in ancient DNA. Genome Biology, 25(1), Article 261. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-024-03405-5
Hämmerle, M., Guellil, M., Trgovec-Greif, L., Cheronet, O., Sawyer, S., Ruiz-Gartzia, I., Lizano, E., Rymbekova, A., Gelabert, P., Bernardi, P., Han, S., Rattei, T., Schuenemann, V. J., Marques-Bonet, T., Guschanski, K., Calvignac-Spencer, S., Pinhasi, R., & Kuhlwilm, M. (2024). Screening great ape museum specimens for DNA viruses. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 29806. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80780-w
Zagorc, B., Blanz, M., Gelabert, P., Sawyer, S., Oberreiter, V., Cheronet, O., Chen, H. S., Carić, M., Visković, E., Olalde, I., Ivanova-Bieg, M., Novak, M., Reich, D., & Pinhasi, R. (2024). Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Late Antiquity in Dalmatia: Paleogenetic, Dietary, and Population Studies of the Hvar - Radošević burial site. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 16(9), 1-30. Article 150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-02050-0
Oberreiter, V., Gelabert, P., Brück, F., Franz, S., Zelger, E., Szedlacsek, S., Cheronet, O., Cano, F. T., Exler, F., Zagorc, B., Karavanić, I., Banda, M., Gasparyan, B., Straus, L. G., Gonzalez Morales, M. R., Kappelman, J., Stahlschmidt, M., Rattei, T., Kraemer, S. M., ... Pinhasi, R. (2024). Maximizing efficiency in sedimentary ancient DNA analysis: a novel extract pooling approach. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 19388. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-69741-5
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
Djerassiplatz 1 (UBB)
1030 Wien
Room: 5.126
T: +43-1-4277-54710
