Dr. Marcel Keller

Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes, McGrath, William A., Pfister, Rodo, Gong, Shengsheng, Keller, Marcel, Newfield, Timothy P., Schamiloglu, Uli, Büntgen, Ulf, Spyrou, Maria A., Averbuch, Bryan, Chen, Fahu, Schindel, Nikolaus, Xie, Haichao, & Xoplaki, Elena. (2025). The Circulation of Yersinia pestis in Central Eurasia before and during the First Plague Pandemic (Second to Eighth Century CE): Palaeogenetic and Historical Evidence and Sociopolitical, Ecological, and Climatic Factors [Journal-article]. Human Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-025-00617-6

Keller, Marcel, Paulus, Christof, & Xoplaki, Elena. (2025). The First Pandemic: Transformative Disaster or Footnote in History? – An Introduction. Human Ecology, 53(4), 677–679. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-025-00653-2

Stathakopoulos, D., Newfield, T. P., Xoplaki, E., Haldon, J., Keller, M., Roberts, N., Bourbou, C., Mordechai, L., Paulus, C., Grimm-Stadelmann, I., Hartmann, E., Luterbacher, J., Luther, N., Sessa, K., Slootjes, D., & Zhang, M. (2025). The First Plague Pandemic in the Byzantine Empire – Toward a New Dynamic Consensus [Journal-article]. Human Ecology, 53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-025-00612-x

Runge, A. K. W., Light-Maka, I., Massy, K., Keller, M., Trixl, S., Kabral, H., Kirkpatrick, C. L., Bos, K., Eger, J., Ernée, M., Kyselý, R., Hochmuth, M., Poradowski, D., Chrószcz, A., Benecke, N., Daněček, D., Klementová, J., Nagler, A., Kalmykov, A. A., et al. (2025). Probing the zooarchaeological record across time and space for ancient pathogens [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.12.637901

Keller, Marcel, Bönisch, Eberhard, Khan, Naveed, Krause, Johannes, & Orlando, Ludovic. (2024). Paläogenetische Analysen am spätsaalezeitlichen Pferd von Jänschwalde, Lkr. Spree-Neiße. Veröffentlichungen zur brandenburgischen Landesarchäologie, 50, 7–12.

Keller, M., Guellil, M., Slavin, P., Saag, L., Irdt, K., Niinemäe, H., Solnik, A., Malve, M., Valk, H., Kriiska, A., Cessford, C., Inskip, S. A., Robb, J. E., Cooper, C., von Planta, C., Seifert, M., Reitmaier, T., Baetsen, W. A., Walker, D., et al. (2023). A Refined Phylochronology of the Second Plague Pandemic in Western Eurasia [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.18.549544

Keller, M. (2023). Ancient DNA extract purification (chunk samples/high volume) v1 [Posted-content]. ZappyLab, Inc. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.j8nlkwje6l5r/v1

Keller, M. (2023). Library preparation (dsDNA double indexing, full-UDG, 2x split) v1 [Posted-content]. ZappyLab, Inc. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.8epv5jpwdl1b/v1

Keller, M. (2023). Indexing PCR and purification of dsDNA libraries v1 [Posted-content]. ZappyLab, Inc. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.rm7vzboy4vx1/v1

Guellil, M., Keller, M., Dittmar, J. M., Inskip, S. A., Cessford, C., Solnik, A., Kivisild, T., Metspalu, M., Robb, J. E., & Scheib, C. L. (2022). An invasive Haemophilus influenzae serotype b infection in an Anglo-Saxon plague victim. Genome Biology, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-021-02580-z

Milella, M., Caspari, G., Laffranchi, Z., Arenz, G., Sadykov, T., Blochin, J., Keller, M., Kapinus, Y., & Lösch, S. (2022). Dining in Tuva: Social correlates of diet and mobility in Southern Siberia during the 2nd–4th centuries CE. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 178(1), 124–139. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24506

Suchan, T., Kusliy, M. A., Khan, N., Chauvey, L., Tonasso-Calvière, L., Schiavinato, S., Southon, J., Keller, M., Kitagawa, K., Krause, J., Bessudnov, A. N., Bessudnov, A. A., Graphodatsky, A. S., Valenzuela-Lamas, S., Wilczyński, J., Pospuła, S., Tunia, K., Nowak, M., Moskal-delHoyo, M., et al. (2022). Performance and automation of ancient DNA capture with RNA hyRAD probes. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22(3), 891–907. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13518

Keller, M. (2022). Decontamination of tooth roots/petrous bone cores for ancient DNA extraction v1 [Posted-content]. ZappyLab, Inc. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.eq2lynp4qvx9/v1

Keller, M. (2022). Library preparation (dsDNA double indexing, non-UDG, 2x split) v1 [Posted-content]. ZappyLab, Inc. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n2bvj6xqxlk5/v1

Keller, M. (2021). Ancient DNA protocol collection – University of Tartu, Institute of Genomics v1 [Posted-content]. ZappyLab, Inc. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n92ldzbd8v5b/v1

Keller, M. (2021). Ancient DNA extract purification (chunk samples/high volume) v2 [Posted-content]. ZappyLab, Inc. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n92ldzbpxv5b/v2

Cessford, C., Scheib, C. L., Guellil, M., Keller, M., Alexander, C., Inskip, S. A., & Robb, J. E. (2021). Beyond Plague Pits: Using Genetics to Identify Responses to Plague in Medieval Cambridgeshire. European Journal of Archaeology, 24(4), 496–518. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2021.19

Keller, M., Paulus, C., & Xoplaki, E. (2021). The Justinianic Plague: Limits and opportunities of scientific approaches for an integrative understanding of history Die Justinianische Pest Grenzen und Chancen naturwissenschaftlicher Ansätze für ein integratives Geschichtsverständnis. Evangelische Theologie, 81(5), 385–401. https://doi.org/10.14315/evth-2021-810509

Ingman, T., Eisenmann, S., Skourtanioti, E., Akar, M., Ilgner, J., Ruscone, G. A. G., Roux, P., Shafiq, R., Neumann, G. U., Keller, M., Freund, C., Marzo, S., Lucas, M., Krause, J., Roberts, P., Aslihan Yener, K., & Stockhammer, P. W. (2021). Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey during the 2nd millennium BC: Integration of isotopic and genomic evidence. PLoS ONE, 16(6 June). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241883

Keller, M. (2021). Sampling of tooth roots for ancient DNA v1 [Posted-content]. ZappyLab, Inc. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.6qpvrdr83gmk/v1

Milella, M., Caspari, G., Kapinus, Y., Sadykov, T., Blochin, J., Malyutina, A., Keller, M., Schlager, S., Szidat, S., Alterauge, A., & Lösch, S. (2021). Troubles in Tuva: Patterns of perimortem trauma in a nomadic community from Southern Siberia (second to fourth c. CE). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 174(1), 3–19. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24142

Ingman, T., Eisenmann, S., Skourtanioti, E., Akar, M., Ilgner, J., Gnecchi Ruscone, G. A., le Roux, P., Shafiq, R., Neumann, G. U., Keller, M., Freund, C., Marzo, S., Lucas, M., Krause, J., Roberts, P., Yener, K. A., & Stockhammer, P. W. (2020). Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh) during the 2nd millennium BC: integration of isotopic and genomic evidence [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.23.351882

Spyrou, M. A., Keller, M., Tukhbatova, R. I., Scheib, C. L., Nelson, E. A., Andrades Valtueña, A., Neumann, G. U., Walker, D., Alterauge, A., Carty, N., Cessford, C., Fetz, H., Gourvennec, M., Hartle, R., Henderson, M., von Heyking, K., Inskip, S. A., Kacki, S., Key, F. M., et al. (2019). Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes. Nature Communications, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12154-0

Keller, M., Spyrou, M. A., McCormick, M., Bos, K. I., Herbig, A., & Krause, J. (2019). Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes provide no evidence for the origins or spread of the Justinianic Plague [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/819698

Keller, M., Spyrou, M. A., Scheib, C. L., Neumann, G. U., Kröpelin, A., Haas-Gebhard, B., Päffgen, B., Haberstroh, J., Lacomba, A. R. I., Raynaud, C., Cessford, C., Durand, R., Stadler, P., Nägele, K., Bates, J. S., Trautmann, B., Inskip, S. A., Peters, J., Robb, J. E., et al. (2019). Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541–750). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(25), 12363–12372. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820447116

Keller, M., Spyrou, M. A., Scheib, C. L., Kröpelin, A., Haas-Gebhard, B., Päffgen, B., Haberstroh, J., i Lacomba, A. R., Raynaud, C., Cessford, C., Stadler, P., Nägele, K., Neumann, G. U., Bates, J. S., Trautmann, B., Inskip, S., Peters, J., Robb, J. E., Kivisild, T., et al. (2018). Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541–750) [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/481226

Gutsmiedl-Schümann, D., Päffgen, B., Schwarzberg, H., Keller, M., Rott, A., & Harbeck, M. (2018). Digging up the plague: A diachronic comparison of aDNA confirmed plague burials and associated burial customs in Germany. Prahistorische Zeitschrift, 92(2), 405–427. https://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2017-0018

Feldman, M., Harbeck, M., Keller, M., Spyrou, M. A., Rott, A., Trautmann, B., Scholz, H. C., Päffgen, B., Peters, J., McCormick, M., Bos, K., Herbig, A., & Krause, J. (2016). A High-Coverage Yersinia pestis Genome from a Sixth-Century Justinianic Plague Victim. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33(11), 2911–2923. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw170

Keller, M., Rott, A., Hoke, N., Schwarzberg, H., Regner-Kamlah, B., Harbeck, M., & Wahl, J. (2015). United in death - Related by blood? Genetic and archeometric analyses of skeletal remains from the neolithic earthwork bruchsal-aue. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 157(3), 458–471. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22738