Between September 23rd and 25th, the ERC HistoGenes group held its second plenary meeting in Vienna. During the three-day meeting, project participants presented and discussed the results of the first research year and identified future key research directions and strategies. Our institute was represented by Anna Szécsényi-Nagy and Balázs Mende at the event. From spring 2020 until September 2021, the ERC team of the Institute of Archeogaenomics collected nearly 3,000 Migration Period human DNA samples together with the staff of the Institute of Archeological Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University and prepared them for complete genomic analysis in our institute's ancient DNA laboratory.In addition to the Hungarian samples, our deputy director, Balázs Mende, visited collaborating institutes in Serbia, Slovenia, and Slovakia with our archaeologists (István Koncz, Levente Samu) and anthropologist (Olga Spekker) colleagues.

For further events of the project visit the HistoGenes webpage: https://www.histogenes.org/