The International Society for Biomolecular Archeology (ISBA) organized the 10th ISBA conference between the 13-15th of September in Tartu, Estonia. Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, our director and five colleagues of the Institute of Archaeogenomics participated in one of the most prestigious events in the scientific field with a lecture and four posters.

The topic of Yusuf can Özdemir's lecture was the preliminary results of the sample series examined from the Altai Mountains area:

  • Yusuf can Özdemir, Balázs Gyuris, Kristóf Jakab, Gergely Csiky, Tamás Szeniczey, Balázs G. Mende, Alexey Tishkin, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy: Genetic history of the Altai Population 4th-14th centuries.

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Noémi Borbély presented a genetic study of the Copper and Bronze Age horses of the Carpathian Basin in the form of a poster:

  • Noémi Borbély, Zoltán Dicső, Géza Szabó, Róbert Bozi, Botond Heltai, Viktória Kiss, Gabriella Kulcsár, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Dániel Gerber: Genetic analysis of Late Copper Age to Bronze Age horses from the Carpathian Basin.

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PhD student Motahareh Amjadi's poster presented the results of the primary analysis of samples from the northern part of Iran:

  • Motahareh Amjadi, Maryam Ramezani, Kristóf Jakab, Balázs G. Mende, Abdol Motalleb Sharifi, Ata Hasanpour, Vali Jahani, Arezoo Bibak, Mahmood Tavallaie, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy: Genomic analyzes of Seleucid and Parthian period population in North Iran.

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In a poster, Bea Szeifert provided an insight into the genetic composition of the population of the medieval cemeteries excavated along the Dniester and in the Carpathian Basin:

  • Bea Szeifert, Balázs Gyuris, Kristóf Jakab, Balázs Gusztáv Mende, Péter Langó, Attila Türk, Vitalij Sinika, Dániel Giedl, Péter Major, Norbert Berta, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy: Analysis of genetic connections between the medieval communities of the Dniester Valley and the Carpathian Basin.

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Ábel Fóthi, representing the Molecular Anthropology group, presented the preliminary results of the genetic study of the 10th century population on a poster:

  • Ábel Fóthi, Virág Krizsik, Alexandra Kovács, Dóra Szegő, Róbert Kaló, Horolma Pamjav, Ariana Gugora, Balazs Könnyű, Bence Gálik, Péter Urbán, Attila Gyenesei, Erzsébet Fóthi: An admixture of people conquered the Carpathian basin in the 10th century.

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