Daniel Wegmann

This study uses ancient genomes of Alpine ibex to show that past population dynamics and genetic diversity loss are critical for understanding current conservation challenges.

SweepLink jointly infers demography and linked selection from time-series data, improving detection of selection signals compared to single-locus methods.

This study reconstructs the genomic history of the extinct giant deer, revealing genetic vulnerabilities linked to its extinction.

The paper quantifies gene-environment interactions in fir and beech regeneration across Europe, showing contrasting effects on germination and post-establishment survival.

This study models the Neolithic expansion of farmers in Europe, showing increasing admixture with hunter-gatherers over time and estimating farmer population size relative to hunter-gatherers.

The paper analyzes 248 historic genomes from Late Roman and Early Medieval sites in southern Germany, revealing demographic shifts, kinship structures, and genetic continuity with modern populations.

This paper introduces birp, a Bayesian tool for testing population trend changes in ecological data, showing it can accurately detect trends even with noisy or sparse data.

The paper introduces TreeSwirl, a method to infer locus-specific mixture proportions from genome-wide allele frequencies, outperforming existing methods in accuracy and sensitivity.

BeXY is a Bayesian method that jointly infers sex chromosome karyotypes and sex-linked scaffolds from low-depth sequencing data, outperforming existing methods in accuracy and power.

The paper reports admixture between Neolithic farmers and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in the Danube Gorges, supported by palaeogenomic analysis and archaeological findings.

The paper extends the F-model to linked loci using a hidden Markov model to detect selection, showing increased statistical power and identifying selection in the human genome.

The paper analyzes ancient genomes from the Mokrin necropolis to study kinship, population structure, and status inheritance in an Early Bronze Age community.

ATLAS, a C++ toolkit that models post-mortem damage when genotyping ancient or low-depth BAM data, avoided GATK's reference bias and made fewer errors at higher depth in simulations.

This paper introduces a method to infer heterozygosity from low coverage genomes, showing it can accurately estimate diversity in ancient samples.

This paper develops a method to jointly infer demography and mutation rates using polymorphism data and pedigrees, showing accurate parameter estimation from small pedigrees.

This paper introduces a new approximation method for inferring selection and demography from time series genetic data, applied to Influenza virus evolution data.