Marco Rosario Capodiferro
Research
First Author Papers
- Capodiferro M.R. et al., "The multifaceted genomic history of Ashaninka from Amazonian Peru", 2023, Current Biology, Volume 33, Issue 8, Article 1573.
- Cardinali I. et al., "Mitochondrial DNA Footprints from Western Eurasia in Modern Mongolia", 2022, Frontiers in Genetics, Volume 12, Article 819337.
- Capodiferro M.R. et al., "Archaeogenomic distinctiveness of the Isthmo-Colombian area", 2021, Cell, Volume 184, Issue 7, Article 1706.
- Modi A. et al., "The mitogenome portrait of Umbria in Central Italy as depicted by contemporary inhabitants and pre-Roman remains", 2020, Scientific Reports, Volume 10, Article 10700.
- Wang S. et al., "Whole Mitogenomes Reveal the History of Swamp Buffalo: Initially Shaped by Glacial Periods and Eventually Modelled by Domestication", 2017, Scientific Reports, Volume 7, Article 4708.
Awards
- 2019: Best PhD thesis in Genetics by the “Italian Genetics Association (AGI)”.
Conference Talks
- 2023: "Archaic ancestry inference in imputed ancient human genomes", SMBE 2024. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
- 2022: "Geographical and Chronological patterns of archaic introgression in ancient Human genomes", ISBA 2023. Tartu, Estonia.
- 2018: "Exploring the genetic history of Panamanians through ancient genomes", FISV 2018. Rome, Italy.
- 2017: "Looking into the Swamp Buffalo Genetic History Through the Whole Mitogenome Analysis", ASPA 2017. Perugia, Italy.
Invited Speaker
- 2024: "Unraveling Admixture and Isolation Patterns in South America", Leiden, Netherlands.
- 2024: "Archaic introgression in ancient Human genomes", University of Pavia, Italy.
- 2023: "Knowledge discovery from ancient reads", Cortona Summer School, Italy.
- 2019: "Genomic history of Panama", Sevilla, Spain.
- 2019: "From modern mitogenomes to archaeogenomics", Cortona, Italy.
Conference Organization
- 2024: Co-Organizer, "Ancient DNA Beyond Allele Frequencies", SMBE satellite meeting, Dublin, Ireland.
- 2021: Co-Organizer, "Host-pathogen co-evolutionary dynamics", SMBE 2023, Ferrara, Italy.
International Training
- 2018: Estonian Biocentre, University of Tartu, Estonia.
- 2017: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
- 2017: Innsbruck Medical University, Austria.
Education
- 2015–2019: Ph.D. in Genetics, University of Pavia
- 2011–2014: M.Sc. in Applied Biomolecular Sciences, University of Perugia
- 2006–2011: B.Sc. in Biological Sciences, University of Perugia