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Universität Basel: Basel, CH

2024-01-01 to present | Postdoc (Department of Environmental Sciences)
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Marcel Keller

University of Tartu: Tartu, EE

2020-12-01 to present | Research Fellow (Institute of Genomics)
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Marcel Keller

University of Bern: Bern, CH

2022-01-01 to 2023-12-31 | Scientific Staff (Institute of Forensic Medicine)
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University of Tartu: Tartu, EE

2019-04-15 to 2020-11-30 | Temporary Research Assistant (Institute of Genomics)
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Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History: Jena, DE

2014-12-01 to 2019-03-31 | PhD student (Archaeogenetics)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: Jena, Thüringen, DE

2014-12-01 to 2020-07-03 | Doctor rerum naturalium (Faculty of Biological Sciences)
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: Munich, DE

2011-10-01 to 2013-09-30 | M.Sc. in Biology (Faculty of Biology)
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: Munich, DE

2008-10-01 to 2011-09-30 | B.Sc. in Biology (Faculty of Biology)
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Funding (1)

The First Plague Pandemic (541-750 AD): Transformative Disaster or Footnote in History?

2021-09 to 2021-09 | Grant
Volkswagen Foundation (Hannover, DE)
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Works (31)

Probing the zooarchaeological record across time and space for ancient pathogens

2025-02-13 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.12.637901
Contributors: Anne Kathrine W. Runge; Ian Light-Maka; Ken Massy; Marcel Keller; Simon Trixl; Helja Kabral; Casey L. Kirkpatrick; Kirsten Bos; Jana Eger; Michal Ernée et al.
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Paläogenetische Analysen am spätsaalezeitlichen Pferd von Jänschwalde, Lkr. Spree-Neiße

Veröffentlichungen zur brandenburgischen Landesarchäologie
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Eberhard Bönisch; Naveed Khan; Johannes Krause; Ludovic Orlando
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A Refined Phylochronology of the Second Plague Pandemic in Western Eurasia

2023-07-19 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.18.549544
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Meriam Guellil; Philip Slavin; Lehti Saag; Kadri Irdt; Helja Niinemäe; Anu Solnik; Martin Malve; Heiki Valk; Aivar Kriiska et al.
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Ancient DNA protocol collection – University of Tartu, Institute of Genomics

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2023-05-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n92ldzbd8v5b/v1
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Christiana Scheib
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Library preparation (dsDNA double indexing, full-UDG, 2x split)

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2023-05-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.8epv5jpwdl1b/v1
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Christiana Scheib
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Library preparation (dsDNA single indexing, full-UDG, no split)

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2023-05-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.yxmvm2qj6g3p/v1
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Christiana Scheib
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Library preparation (dsDNA single indexing, non-UDG, no split)

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2023-05-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n92ldpjexl5b/v1
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Christiana Scheib
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Ancient DNA extract purification (chunk samples/high volume)

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2023-04-12 | Journal article | Author
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.j8nlkwje6l5r/v1
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Christiana Scheib
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Decontamination of tooth roots/petrous bone cores for ancient DNA extraction

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2023-04-05 | Journal article | Author
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.eq2lynp4qvx9/v1
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Christiana Scheib
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Indexing PCR and purification of dsDNA libraries

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2023-04-05 | Journal article | Author
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.rm7vzboy4vx1/v1
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Christiana Scheib
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Library preparation (dsDNA double indexing, non-UDG, 2x split)

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2023-04-05 | Journal article | Author
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n2bvj6xqxlk5/v1
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Christiana Scheib
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Sampling of tooth roots for ancient DNA

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2023-04-05 | Journal article | Author
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.6qpvrdr83gmk/v1
Contributors: Christiana Scheib; Marcel Keller
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Ancient DNA extract purification (chunk samples/high volume)

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2023-03-30 | Journal article | Author
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n92ldzbpxv5b/v2
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Christiana Scheib
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Ancient DNA extraction (chunk samples/high volume)

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2023-03-30 | Journal article | Author
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n92ldzbpxv5b/v1
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Christiana Scheib
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An invasive Haemophilus influenzae serotype b infection in an Anglo-Saxon plague victim

Genome Biology
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02580-z
Part of ISSN: 1474-760X
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Marcel Keller

Dining in Tuva: Social correlates of diet and mobility in Southern Siberia during the 2nd–4th centuries CE

American Journal of Biological Anthropology
2022-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24506
Contributors: Marco Milella; Gino Caspari; Zita Laffranchi; Gabriele Arenz; Timur Sadykov; Jegor Blochin; Marcel Keller; Yulija Kapinus; Sandra Lösch
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Performance and automation of ancient DNA capture with RNA hyRAD probes

Molecular Ecology Resources
2022-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13518
Contributors: Tomasz Suchan; Mariya A. Kusliy; Naveed Khan; Loreleï Chauvey; Laure Tonasso‐Calvière; Stéphanie Schiavinato; John Southon; Marcel Keller; Keiko Kitagawa; Johannes Krause et al.
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Beyond Plague Pits: Using Genetics to Identify Responses to Plague in Medieval Cambridgeshire

European Journal of Archaeology
2021-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/eaa.2021.19
Contributors: Craig Cessford; Christiana L. Scheib; Meriam Guellil; Marcel Keller; Craig Alexander; Sarah A. Inskip; John E. Robb
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Die Justinianische Pest. Grenzen und Chancen naturwissenschaftlicher Ansätze für ein integratives Geschichtsverständnis

Evangelische Theologie
2021-10-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.14315/evth-2021-810509
Part of ISSN: 2198-0470
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Marcel Keller

Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey during the 2nd millennium BC: Integration of isotopic and genomic evidence

PLOS ONE
2021-06-30 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241883
Contributors: Tara Ingman; Mario Novak; Stefanie Eisenmann; Eirini Skourtanioti; Murat Akar; Jana Ilgner; Guido Alberto Gnecchi Ruscone; Petrus le Roux; Rula Shafiq; Gunnar U. Neumann et al.
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Troubles in Tuva: Patterns of perimortem trauma in a nomadic community from Southern Siberia (second to fourth c. CE)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology
2021-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24142
Contributors: Marco Milella; Gino Caspari; Yulija Kapinus; Timur Sadykov; Jegor Blochin; Anna Malyutina; Marcel Keller; Stefan Schlager; Sönke Szidat; Amelie Alterauge et al.
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Der Pestfriedhof des 17. Jahrhunderts. Pestnachweise durch “alte DNA”

Domat/Ems, Sogn Pieder. Vom frühmittelalterlichen Herrenhof zum neuzeitlichen Pestfriedhof.
2020 | Book chapter
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Meriam Guellil; Christiana L. Scheib
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Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh) during the 2nd millennium BC: integration of isotopic and genomic evidence

2020-10-23 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.23.351882
Contributors: Tara Ingman; Stefanie Eisenmann; Eirini Skourtanioti; Murat Akar; Jana Ilgner; Guido Alberto Gnecchi Ruscone; Petrus le Roux; Rula Shafiq; Gunnar U. Neumann; Marcel Keller et al.
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Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes provide no evidence for the origins or spread of the Justinianic Plague

2019-10-31 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/819698
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Maria A. Spyrou; Michael McCormick; Kirsten I. Bos; Alexander Herbig; Johannes Krause
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Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes

Nature Communications
2019-10-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12154-0
Contributors: Maria A. Spyrou; Marcel Keller; Rezeda I. Tukhbatova; Christiana L. Scheib; Elizabeth A. Nelson; Aida Andrades Valtueña; Gunnar U. Neumann; Don Walker; Amelie Alterauge; Niamh Carty et al.
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Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541–750)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2019-06-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1820447116
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Maria A. Spyrou; Christiana L. Scheib; Gunnar U. Neumann; Andreas Kröpelin; Brigitte Haas-Gebhard; Bernd Päffgen; Jochen Haberstroh; Albert Ribera i Lacomba; Claude Raynaud et al.
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Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541–750)

2018-11-29 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/481226
Contributors: Marcel Keller; Maria A. Spyrou; Christiana L. Scheib; Andreas Kröpelin; Brigitte Haas-Gebhard; Bernd Päffgen; Jochen Haberstroh; Albert Ribera i Lacomba; Claude Raynaud; Craig Cessford et al.
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Digging up the plague: A diachronic comparison of aDNA confirmed plague burials and associated burial customs in Germany

Praehistorische Zeitschrift
2018-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/pz-2017-0018
Part of ISSN: 1613-0804
Contributors: Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann; Bernd Päffgen; Heiner Schwarzberg; Marcel Keller; Andreas Rott; Michaela Harbeck
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Gräber und Menschenknochen im Michelsberger Erdwerk von Bruchsal 'Aue': Archäologie - Anthropologie - Paläogenetik - Archäometrie

Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg
2016 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-3-942227-28-5
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Marcel Keller

A High-Coverage Yersinia pestis Genome from a Sixth-Century Justinianic Plague Victim

Molecular Biology and Evolution
2016-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw170
Part of ISSN: 0737-4038
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Marcel Keller
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United in death - related by blood? Genetic and archeometric analyses of skeletal remains from the neolithic earthwork Bruchsal-Aue

American Journal of Physical Anthropology
2015-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22738
Part of ISSN: 0002-9483
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Marcel Keller
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