Karen Giffin

Barquera, Rodrigo, Sitter, T. Lesley, Kirkpatrick, Casey L., Ramirez, Darío A., Kocher, Arthur, Spyrou, Maria A., Couoh, Lourdes R., Talavera-González, Jorge A., Castro, Mario, von Hunnius, Tanya, Guevara, Evelyn K., Hamilton, W. Derek, Roberts, Patrick, Scott, Erin, Fabra, Mariana, Da Peña, Gabriela V., Pacheco, Aryel, Rodriguez, Mónica, Aspillaga, Eugenio, et al. (2025). Ancient genomes reveal a deep history of Treponema pallidum in the Americas. Nature, 640(8057), 186–193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08515-5

Michel, Megan, Skourtanioti, Eirini, Pierini, Federica, Guevara, Evelyn K., Mötsch, Angela, Kocher, Arthur, Barquera, Rodrigo, Bianco, Raffaela A., Carlhoff, Selina, Coppola Bove, Lorenza, Freilich, Suzanne, Giffin, Karen, Hermes, Taylor, Hiß, Alina, Knolle, Florian, Nelson, Elizabeth A., Neumann, Gunnar U., Papac, Luka, Penske, Sandra, et al. (2024). Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria. Nature, 631(8019), 125–133. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07546-2

Vågene, Åshild J., Honap, Tanvi P., Harkins, Kelly M., Rosenberg, Michael S., Giffin, Karen, Cárdenas-Arroyo, Felipe, Leguizamón, Laura Paloma, Arnett, Judith, Buikstra, Jane E., Herbig, Alexander, Krause, Johannes, Stone, Anne C., & Bos, Kirsten I. (2022). Geographically dispersed zoonotic tuberculosis in pre-contact South American human populations [Journal-article]. Nature Communications, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28562-8

Kocher, Arthur, Papac, Luka, Barquera, Rodrigo, Key, Felix M., Spyrou, Maria A., Hübler, Ron, Rohrlach, Adam B., Aron, Franziska, Stahl, Raphaela, Wissgott, Antje, van Bömmel, Florian, Pfefferkorn, Maria, Mittnik, Alissa, Villalba-Mouco, Vanessa, Neumann, Gunnar U., Rivollat, Maïté, van de Loosdrecht, Marieke S., Majander, Kerttu, Tukhbatova, Rezeda I., et al. (2021). Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution [Journal-article]. Science, 374(6564), 182–188. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi5658

Giffin, Karen, Lankapalli, Aditya Kumar, Sabin, Susanna, Spyrou, Maria A., Posth, Cosimo, Kozakaitė, Justina, Friedrich, Ronny, Miliauskienė, Žydrūnė, Jankauskas, Rimantas, Herbig, Alexander, & Bos, Kirsten I. (2020). A treponemal genome from an historic plague victim supports a recent emergence of yaws and its presence in 15th century Europe [Journal-article]. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66012-x

Bos, Kirsten I., Kühnert, Denise, Herbig, Alexander, Esquivel-Gomez, Luis Roger, Andrades Valtueña, Aida, Barquera, Rodrigo, Giffin, Karen, Kumar Lankapalli, Aditya, Nelson, Elizabeth A., Sabin, Susanna, Spyrou, Maria A., & Krause, Johannes. (2019). Paleomicrobiology: Diagnosis and evolution of ancient pathogens [Journal-article]. Annual Review of Microbiology, 73(1), 639–666. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-micro-090817-062436

Giffin, K. L., Swanston, T., Coulthard, I., Murphy, A. R., Cooper, D. M. L., & Varney, T. L. (2017). Skeletal Lead Burden of the British Royal Navy in Colonial Antigua [Journal-article]. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 27(4), 672–682. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2589