The 11th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, organised by the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA), was held in Torino, Italy, between 26–29 August 2025. This year, more than 570 researchers attended the biennial international conference. The results of ongoing research at the Institue of Archaeogenomics were presented by six of our colleagues through oral and poster presentations.

In his talk, Balázs Gyuris presented the results of the multidisciplinary analysis of an Avar cemetery at the Kölked-Feketekapu site. This research is a part of the ERC HistoGenes project. The list of authors and the title of his presentation are as follows:

• Balázs Gyuris - Zsuzsanna Hajnal - Tamás Szeniczey - Norbert Faragó - Corina Knipper - Zsófia Rácz - István Koncz - Levente Samu - Balázs Gusztáv Mende - Tivadar Vida - Anna Szécsényi-Nagy:
  Social Relations in Avar-Period Southern Transdanubia: Multidisciplinary Insights from the Kölked-Feketekapu Cemetery

Two posters related to the ERC HistoGenes project were prepared by our colleagues and their co-authors:

Yusuf Can Özdemir presented the results of genomic analyses of Middle and Late Avar Period communities, while Dániel Gerber discussed the genomic composition of Migration Period horses from the Carpathian Basin. The list of authors and the titles of their posters are as follows:

• Yusuf Can Özdemir - Zsófia Rácz - Levente Samu - Kristóf Jakab - Csaba Szalontai - Olga Spekker - Ágota Madai - Alena Šefčáková - Matej Ruttkay - Tivadar Vida - Johannes Krause - Balázs G. Mende - Anna Szécsényi-Nagy:
  Genetic Data from High-ranking Middle-Late Avar Period Communities Reveal Multiple Origins
• Dániel Gerber - Botond Heltai - Melinda Megyes - Tivadar Vida - István Koncz - Levente Samu - Ádám Bollók - Péter Csippán - Annamária Bárány - Balázs Gusztáv Mende - Pablo Librado - Anna Szécsényi-Nagy:
  Genomic Composition of Migration Period Horses in the Carpathian Basin

Anna Szécsényi-Nagy outlined the composition and social organisation of Early Copper Age communities of the Carpathian Basin in her poster presentation. This research is connected to the work of Zsuzsanna Siklósi’s MTA-ELTE Momentum Innovation Research Group. The list of authors and the title of the poster are as follows:

• Anna Szécsényi-Nagy - Kristóf Jakab - Balázs Mende - Alexandra Anders - Pál Raczky - Christian Virag - Tamás Hajdu - Ron Pinhasi - Zsuzsanna M. Virág - Piroska Rácz - David Reich - Zsuzsanna Siklósi:
  Genomic Signs of Community Organisations and Social Changes in the Early Copper Age of the Eastern Carpathian Basin

In her poster, Veronika Csáky provided insights into the archaeogenomic analysis of the 3rd–5th century population of the Carpathian Basin. The presented results are part of the research carried out by the MTA-RCH Momentum Bioarchaeology Research Group, led by Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, and are also related toValéria Kulcsár’s NKFIH project, titled ’The population of the Pest Plain in the Roman Imperial Period’. The list of authors and the title of the poster are as follows:

• Veronika Csáky - Bea Szeifert - Balázs Gusztáv Mende - Valéria Kulcsár - Mónika Merczi - Krisztián Kiss - Anna Szécsényi-Nagy:
  Romans Versus Barbars: a 3–5th Century Genomic Study from the Carpathian Basin

Bea Szeifert presented the regionally detailed results of the genomic analysis of individuals from the Hungarian Conquest Period in her poster. The research is connected to Veronika Csáky’s NKFI Starting project and the projects of the Early Hungarians Research Group of Pázmány Péter Catholic University and the ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities. The list of authors and the title of the poster are as follows:

• Bea Szeifert - Veronika Csáky - Dániel Gerber - Balázs Gyuris - Péter Langó - Türk Attila - István Major - Dániel Giedl - Péter Major - Norbert Berta - Balázs Gusztáv Mende - Tamás Szeniczey - Tamás Hajdu - Anna Szécsényi-Nagy:
  Regional Genetic Differences of the Carpathian Basin Population in the 10th Century AD

The full conference programme and the abstract booklet are available on the official conference website.