Alexander Herbig

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology — Germany

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research(55), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis(24), Forensic and Genetic Research(23), Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research(21), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(20)

Publications145 total

What the landscape can tell: An integrative stratigraphic prospection approach to localize a Black Death mass grave in Erfurt/Central Germany
PLoS ONE·2026Open Access
Evolutionary history and recurrent host adaptation in ancient <i>Salmonella enterica</i>
2025Open Access
Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics Textbook (Edition 2025): Genome Mapping
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
Performance of shotgun metagenomics on whole blood from patients with suspected bloodstream infection: Challenges remain
Journal of Microbiological Methods·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage
Cell·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
Temporal foundation model unveils ancient Hepatitis B virus evolution
2025Open Access
TSSpredator-Web: A web-application for transcription start site prediction and exploration
2025Open Access
What the landscape can tell: An integrative stratigraphic prospection approach for localizing a Black Death mass grave in Erfurt/Central Germany
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Bronze Age <i>Yersinia pestis</i> genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage
2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Ancient genomes reveal a deep history of Treponema pallidum in the Americas
Nature·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria
Nature·2024· 32 citedOpen Access
Origin and dispersal history of Hepatitis B virus in Eastern Eurasia
Nature Communications·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics (Edition 2023)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2023Open Access
Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics Textbook (Edition 2023): Genome Mapping
2023Open Access
Plagued for millennia: The complex transmission and ecology of prehistoric Yersinia pestis
TheScienceBreaker·2023Open Access
14th century Yersinia pestis genomes support emergence of pestis secunda within Europe
PLoS Pathogens·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
SPAAM Summer School 2022: Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics - 4b Introduction to Genome Mapping
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
SPAAM Summer School 2022: Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics - 4b Introduction to Genome Mapping
2022Open Access
Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia
Science Advances·2022· 40 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Johannes Krause(36), Kirsten I. Bos(26), Kay Nieselt(16), Maria A. Spyrou(14), Verena J. Schuenemann(12), Denise Kühnert(8), Felix M. Key(8), Christina Warinner(7), Ben Krause‐Kyora(6), Aida Andrades Valtueña(6), Aditya Kumar Lankapalli(6), Åshild J. Vågene‬(5), Susanna Sabin(5), Rezeda I. Tukhbatova(5), Gunnar U. Neumann(5), Cosimo Posth(5), Philipp W. Stockhammer(5), Ella Reiter(5), Günter Jäger(4), Alexander Seitz(4)