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Joachim Burger

Principal Investigator
  • Address: iomE, Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 7 (Geb. 1430, 00-212), 55128 Mainz
  • Phone: +49 6131 39 24489
  • email

  • Since 2010: Professor in Anthropology, Institute of Anthropology, JGU Mainz
  • 2005-2010: Junior Professor in Molecular Archaeology, Institute of Anthropology, JGU Mainz
  • 2004-2005: Academic Council, Institute of Anthropology, JGU Mainz
  • 2000-2004: Research Assistent, Institute of Anthropology, JGU Mainz
  • 1997-2000: Research Associate, Institute of Historic Anthropology and Human Ecology, Göttingen University

Education:

  • 2000: PhD in Biology (Anthropology, Zoology, Botany), Göttingen University
  • 1997: Master of Arts in Anthropology (minor subjects Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, and Musicology), JGU Mainz

  • Marchi N, Winkelbach L, Schulz I, Brami M, Hofmanová Z, Blöcher J, Reyna-Blanco CS, Diekmann Y, Thiéry A, Kapopoulou A, Link V, Piuz V, Kreutzer S, Figarska SM, Ganiatsou E, Pukaj A, Struck TJ, Gutenkunst RN, Karul N, Gerritsen F, Pechtl J, Peters J, Zeeb-Lanz A, Lenneis E, Teschler-Nicola M, Triantaphyllou S, Stefanović S, Papageorgopoulou C, Wegmann*, D, Burger* J, Excoffier* L (2022)
    The genomic origins of the world’s first farmers Cell, 185(11):1842-1859
  • Clemente F, Unterländer M, Dolgova O, Amorim CEG, Coroado-Santos F, Neuenschwander S, Ganiatsou E, Cruz Dávalos DI, Anchieri L, Michaud F, Winkelbach L, Blöcher J, Arizmendi Cárdenas YO, Sousa da Mota B, Kalliga E, Souleles A, Kontopoulos I, Karamitrou-Mentessidi G, Philaniotou O, Sampson A, Theodorou D, Tsipopoulou M, Akamatis I, Halstead P, Kotsakis K, Urem-Kotsou D, Panagiotopoulos D, Ziota C, Triantaphyllou S, Delaneau O, Jensen JD, Moreno-Mayar JV, Burger J, Sousa VC, Lao O, Malaspinas A and Papageorgopoulou C (2021)
    The genomic history of the Aegean palatial civilizations Cell, 184(10):2565-2586.e21
  • Žegarac, A, Winkelbach L, Blöcher J, Diekmann Y, Krečković Gavrilović M, Porčić M, Stojković B, Milašinović L, Schreiber M, Wegmann D, Veeramah KR, Stefanović S and Burger J (2021)
    Ancient genomes provide insights into family structure and the heredity of social status in the early Bronze Age of southeastern Europe Scientific Reports, 11(1):10072
  • Weißbach S, Sys S, Hewel C, Todorov H, Schweiger S, Winter J, Pfenninger M, Torkamani A, Evans D, Burger J, Everschor-Sitte K, May-Simera HL and Gerber S (2021)
    Reliability of genomic variants across different next-generation sequencing platforms and bioinformatic processing pipelines BMC Genomics, 22(62)
  • Burger J, Link V, Blöcher J, Schulz A, Sell C, Pochon Z, Diekmann Y, Žegarac A, Hofmanová Z, Winkelbach L, Reyna-Blanco CS, Bieker V, Orschiedt J, Brinker U, Scheu A, Leuenberger C, Bertino TS, Bollongino R, Lidke G, Stefanović S, Jantzen D, Kaiser E, Terberger T, Thomas MG, Veeramah KR and Wegmann D (2020)
    Low Prevalence of Lactase Persistence in Bronze Age Europe Indicates Ongoing Strong Selection over the Last 3,000 Years. Current Biology
  • Kontopoulos I, Penkman K, Mullin VE, Winkelbach L, Unterländer M, Scheu A, Kreutzer S, Hansen HB, Margaryan A, Teasdale MD, Gehlen B, Street M, Lynnerup N, Liritzis I, Sampson A, Papageorgopoulou C, Allentoft ME, Burger J, Bradley DG and Collins MJ (2020)
    Screening archaeological bone for palaeogenetic and palaeoproteomic studies PLOS One, 6:e0235146
  • Frantz LAF, Haile J, Lin AT, Scheu A, Geörg C, Benecke N, Alexander M, Linderholm A, Mullin VE, Daly KG, Battista VM, Price M, Gron KJ, Alexandri P, Arbogast R-M, Arbuckle B, Bӑlӑşescu A, Barnett R, Bartosiewicz L, Baryshnikov G, Bonsall C, Borić D, Boroneanţ A, Bulatović J, Çakirlar C, Carretero J-M, Chapman J, Church M, Crooijmans R, De Cupere B, Detry C, Dimitrijevic V, Dumitraşcu V, du Plessis L, Edwards CJ, Erek CM, Erim-Özdoğan A, Ervynck A, Fulgione D, Gligor M, Götherström A, Gourichon L, Groenen MAM, Helmer D, Hongo H, Horwitz LK, Irving-Pease EK, Lebrasseur O, Lesur J, Malone C, Manaseryan N, Marciniak A, Martlew H, Mashkour M, Matthews R, Matuzeviciute GM, Maziar S, Meijaard E, McGovern T, Megens H-J, Miller R, Mohaseb AF, Orschiedt J, Orton D, Papathanasiou A, Pearson MP, Pinhasi R, Radmanović D, Ricaut F-X, Richards M, Sabin R, Sarti L, Schier W, Sheikhi S, Stephan E, Stewart JR, Stoddart S, Tagliacozzo A, Tasić N, Trantalidou K, Tresset A, Valdiosera C, van den Hurk Y, Van Poucke S, Vigne J-D, Yanevich A, Zeeb-Lanz A, Triantafyllidis A, Gilbert MTP, Schibler J, Rowley-Conwy P, Zeder M, Peters J, Cucchi T, Bradley DG, Dobney K, Burger J, … Larson G (2019)
    Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe PNAS, 35:17231-17238
  • Verdugo MP, Mullin VE, Scheu A, Mattiangeli V, Daly KG, Maisano Delser P, Hare AJ, Burger J, Collins MJ, Kehati R, Hesse P, Fulton D, Sauer EW, Mohaseb FA, Davoudi H, Khazaeli R, Lhuillier J, Rapin C, Ebrahimi S, Khasanov M, Vahidi SMF, MacHugh DE, Ertuğrul O, Koukouli-Chrysanthaki C, Sampson A, Kazantzis G, Kontopoulos I, Bulatovic J, Stojanović I, Mikdad A, Benecke N, Linstädter J, Sablin M, Bendrey R, Gourichon L, Arbuckle BS, Mashkour M, Orton D, Horwitz LK, Teasdale MD and Bradley DG (2019)
    Ancient cattle genomics, origins, and rapid turnover in the Fertile Crescent Science, 6449:173-176