Dr Adam Rohrlach
Associate Lecturer
School of Biological Sciences
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
I lecture statistics at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and research human history via ancient DNA at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. My areas of interest are bioinformatics, Y chromosomal studies population genetics and genetic relatedness analyses. I enjoy the challenge of developing methods for analysing ancient DNA.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2021 - ongoing Postdoctoroal Researcher Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 2019 - 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History 2017 - 2024 Associate Lecturer University of Adelaide -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2014 - 2018 University of Adelaide Australia PhD 2012 - 2014 University of Adelaide Austalia M.Phil 2009 - 2011 University of Adelaide Australia B Ma Sc -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2024 Rivollat, M., Rohrlach, A. B., Ringbauer, H., Childebayeva, A., Mendisco, F., Barquera, R., . . . Haak, W. (2024). Inferences on regional networks from local genetic trees, the example of the Neolithic site of Gurgy 'les Noisats'. Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, 36. 2024 Rohrlach, A. B., Rivollat, M., de-Miguel-Ibáñez, P., Moilanen, U., Liira, A. M., Teixeira, J. C., . . . Prüfer, K. (2024). Cases of trisomy 21 and trisomy 18 among historic and prehistoric individuals discovered from ancient DNA. Nature Communications, 15(1), 8 pages.
Scopus3 Europe PMC22024 Orfanou, E., Zach, B., Rohrlach, A. B., Schneider, F. N., Paust, E., Lucas, M., . . . Roberts, P. (2024). Biomolecular evidence for changing millet reliance in Late Bronze Age central Germany. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 13 pages.
2024 Penske, S., Küßner, M., Rohrlach, A. B., Knipper, C., Nováček, J., Childebayeva, A., . . . Haak, W. (2024). Kinship practices at the early bronze age site of Leubingen in Central Germany. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 15 pages.
2024 Perkins, H., Hughes, T., Forrest, A., Rohrlach, A., & Higgins, D. (2024). 3D imaging for dental identification: A comparative analysis of a novel segmentation method. Science and Justice. 2024 Michel, M., Skourtanioti, E., Pierini, F., Guevara, E. K., Mötsch, A., Kocher, A., . . . Krause, J. (2024). Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria. Nature, 631(8019), 125-133.
Scopus12024 Barquera, R., Del Castillo-Chávez, O., Nägele, K., Pérez-Ramallo, P., Hernández-Zaragoza, D. I., Szolek, A., . . . Krause, J. (2024). Ancient genomes reveal insights into ritual life at Chichén Itzá. Nature, 630(8018), 912-919.
2024 Childebayeva, A., Fricke, F., Rohrlach, A. B., Huang, L., Schiffels, S., Vesakoski, O., . . . Haak, W. (2024). Bronze age Northern Eurasian genetics in the context of development of metallurgy and Siberian ancestry. Communications Biology, 7(1), 12 pages.
2023 Villalba-Mouco, V., van de Loosdrecht, M. S., Rohrlach, A. B., Fewlass, H., Talamo, S., Yu, H., . . . Haak, W. (2023). A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups that lived in Western Europe before and after the Last Glacial Maximum.. Nature ecology & evolution, 7(4), 597-609.
Scopus11 WoS10 Europe PMC42023 Posth, C., Yu, H., Ghalichi, A., Rougier, H., Crevecoeur, I., Huang, Y., . . . Krause, J. (2023). Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers.. Nature, 615(7950), 117-126.
Scopus44 WoS6 Europe PMC162023 Posth, C., Yu, H., Ghalichi, A., Rougier, H., Crevecoeur, I., Huang, Y., . . . Krause, J. (2023). Author Correction: Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers.. Nature, 616(7956), E5.
WoS2 Europe PMC22023 Rohrlach, A., Tuke, J., Popli, D., & Haak, W. (2023). BREADR: An R Package for the Bayesian Estimation of Genetic Relatedness from Low-coverage Genotype Data.
2023 Penske, S., Rohrlach, A. B., Childebayeva, A., Gnecchi-Ruscone, G., Schmid, C., Spyrou, M. A., . . . Haak, W. (2023). Early contact between late farming and pastoralist societies in southeastern Europe. Nature, 620(7973), 358-365.
Scopus6 WoS1 Europe PMC32023 Rivollat, M., Rohrlach, A. B., Ringbauer, H., Childebayeva, A., Mendisco, F., Barquera, R., . . . Haak, W. (2023). Extensive pedigrees reveal the social organization of a Neolithic community.. Nature, 620(7974), 600-606.
Scopus24 WoS6 Europe PMC112023 Childebayeva, A., Fricke, F., Rohrlach, A. B., Huang, L., Schiffels, S., Vesakoski, O., . . . Haak, W. (2023). Bronze Age Northern Eurasian Genetics in the Context of Development of Metallurgy and Siberian Ancestry.
2023 Carlhoff, S., Kutanan, W., Rohrlach, A. B., Posth, C., Stoneking, M., Nägele, K., . . . Krause, J. (2023). Genomic portrait and relatedness patterns of the Iron Age Log Coffin culture in northwestern Thailand. Nature Communications, 14(1), 9 pages.
Scopus12022 Gnecchi-Ruscone, G. A., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Koncz, I., Csiky, G., Rácz, Z., Rohrlach, A. B., . . . Krause, J. (2022). Ancient genomes reveal origin and rapid trans-Eurasian migration of 7<sup>th</sup> century Avar elites.. Cell, 185(8), 1402-1413.
Scopus25 WoS16 Europe PMC132022 Rivollat, M., Thomas, A., Ghesquière, E., Rohrlach, A. B., Späth, E., Pemonge, M. -H., . . . Deguilloux, M. -F. (2022). Ancient DNA gives new insights into a Norman Neolithic monumental cemetery dedicated to male elites.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(18), 9 pages.
Scopus12 WoS5 Europe PMC42022 Yu, H., van de Loosdrecht, M. S., Mannino, M. A., Talamo, S., Rohrlach, A. B., Childebayeva, A., . . . Krause, J. (2022). Genomic and dietary discontinuities during the Mesolithic and Neolithic in Sicily.. iScience, 25(5), 28 pages.
Scopus11 WoS8 Europe PMC72022 Childebayeva, A., Rohrlach, A. B., Barquera, R., Rivollat, M., Aron, F., Szolek, A., . . . Haak, W. (2022). Population Genetics and Signatures of Selection in Early Neolithic European Farmers.. Molecular biology and evolution, 39(6), 17 pages.
Scopus9 WoS7 Europe PMC102022 Roca-Rada, X., Tereso, S., Rohrlach, A. B., Brito, A., Williams, M. P., Umbelino, C., . . . Teixeira, J. C. (2022). A 1000-year-old case of Klinefelter's syndrome diagnosed by integrating morphology, osteology, and genetics.. Lancet (London, England), 400(10353), 691-692.
Scopus8 WoS1 Europe PMC32022 Souilmi, Y., Tobler, R., Johar, A., Williams, M., Grey, S. T., Schmidt, J., . . . Huber, C. D. (2022). Admixture has obscured signals of historical hard sweeps in humans. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(12), 2003-2015.
Scopus9 WoS3 Europe PMC122022 Villalba-Mouco, V., Oliart, C., Rihuete-Herrada, C., Rohrlach, A. B., Fregeiro, M. I., Childebayeva, A., . . . Haak, W. (2022). Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia.. Scientific reports, 12(1), 15 pages.
Scopus13 WoS5 Europe PMC32021 Rohrlach, A. B., Papac, L., Childebayeva, A., Rivollat, M., Villalba-Mouco, V., Neumann, G. U., . . . Haak, W. (2021). Using Y-chromosome capture enrichment to resolve haplogroup H2 shows new evidence for a two-Path Neolithic expansion to Western Europe. Scientific Reports, 11, 1-11.
2021 Borry, M., Hübner, A., Rohrlach, A. B., & Warinner, C. (2021). PyDamage: automated ancient damage identification and estimation for contigs in ancient DNA de novo assembly. PeerJ, 9, 22 pages.
2021 Purnomo, G. A., Mitchell, K. J., O'Connor, S., Kealy, S., Taufik, L., Schiller, S., . . . Tobler, R. (2021). Mitogenomes reveal two major influxes of Papuan ancestry across Wallacea following the last glacial maximum and Austronesian contact. Genes, 12(7), 1-21.
Scopus15 WoS12 Europe PMC72021 Rohrlach, A. B., Papac, L., Childebayeva, A., Rivollat, M., Villalba-Mouco, V., Neumann, G. U., . . . Haak, W. (2021). Using Y-chromosome capture enrichment to resolve haplogroup H2 shows new evidence for a two-path Neolithic expansion to Western Europe. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 15005-1-15005-11.
Scopus23 WoS20 Europe PMC192021 Borry, M., Hübner, A., Rohrlach, A. B., & Warinner, C. (2021). PyDamage: Automated ancient damage identification and estimation for contigs in ancient DNA de novo assembly. PeerJ, 9, 22 pages.
Scopus16 WoS13 Europe PMC112021 Moilanen, U., Kirkinen, T., Saari, N. J., Rohrlach, A. B., Krause, J., Onkamo, P., & Salmela, E. (2021). A Woman with a Sword?-Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland. European Journal of Archaeology, 25(1), 42-60.
Scopus14 WoS72021 Papac, L., Ernée, M., Dobeš, M., Langová, M., Rohrlach, A. B., Aron, F., . . . Haak, W. (2021). Dynamic changes in genomic and social structures in third millennium BCE central Europe.. Sci Adv, 7(35), 1-17.
Scopus49 WoS28 Europe PMC262021 Kocher, A., Papac, L., Barquera, R., Key, F. M., Spyrou, M. A., Hübler, R., . . . Kühnert, D. (2021). Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution. Science, 374(6564), 182-188.
Scopus53 WoS39 Europe PMC302021 Villalba-Mouco, V., Oliart, C., Rihuete-Herrada, C., Childebayeva, A., Rohrlach, A. B., Fregeiro, M. I., . . . Haak, W. (2021). Genomic transformation and social organization during the Copper Age-Bronze Age transition in southern Iberia.. Sci Adv, 7(47), eabi7038.
Scopus26 WoS19 Europe PMC102020 Furtwängler, A., Rohrlach, A. B., Lamnidis, T. C., Papac, L., Neumann, G. U., Siebke, I., . . . Krause, J. (2020). Ancient genomes reveal social and genetic structure of Late Neolithic Switzerland.. Nature communications, 11(1), 1915.
Scopus50 WoS39 Europe PMC302020 Skourtanioti, E., Erdal, Y. S., Frangipane, M., Balossi Restelli, F., Yener, K. A., Pinnock, F., . . . Krause, J. (2020). Genomic History of Neolithic to Bronze Age Anatolia, Northern Levant, and Southern Caucasus.. Cell, 181(5), 1158-1175.
Scopus68 WoS60 Europe PMC482020 Rivollat, M., Jeong, C., Schiffels, S., Küçükkalıpçı, İ., Pemonge, M. -H., Rohrlach, A. B., . . . Haak, W. (2020). Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers. Science Advances, 6(22), eaaz5344-1-eaaz5344-16.
Scopus79 WoS64 Europe PMC412020 Souilmi, Y., Tobler, R., Johar, A., Williams, M., Grey, S., Schmidt, J., . . . Cooper, A. (2020). Ancient human genomes reveal a hidden history of strong selection in Eurasia.
2020 Rivollat, M., Jeong, C., Schiffels, S., Küçükkalıpçı, İ., Pemonge, M. -H., Rohrlach, A. B., . . . Haak, W. (2020). Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers.. Sci Adv, 6(22).
2020 Furtwängler, A., Rohrlach, A., Lamnidis, T. C., Papac, L., Neumann, G. U., Siebke, I., . . . Krause, J. (2020). Author Correction: Ancient genomes reveal social and genetic structure of Late Neolithic Switzerland.. Nat Commun, 11(1), 4759.
Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC12020 Parker, C., Rohrlach, A., Friederich, S., Nagel, S., Meyer, M., Krause, J., . . . Haak, W. (2020). A systematic investigation of human DNA preservation in medieval skeletons.. Sci Rep, 10(1), 18225.
Scopus43 WoS26 Europe PMC182018 Rohrlach, A. B., Bean, N., Glonek, G., Holland, B., Tobler, R., Tuke, J., & Cooper, A. (2018). Unsupervized Quantification of Demographic Structure for Single-copy Alignments.
2017 Tobler, R., Rohrlach, A., Soubrier, J., Bover Arbos, P., Llamas, B., Tuke, J., . . . Cooper, A. (2017). Aboriginal mitogenomes reveal 50,000 years of regionalism in Australia. Nature, 544(7649), 180-184.
Scopus145 WoS121 Europe PMC432016 Llamas, B., Fehren-Schmitz, L., Valverde, G., Soubrier, J., Mallick, S., Rohland, N., . . . Haak, W. (2016). Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time scale of the peopling of the Americas. Science Advances, 2(4), e1501385-1-e1501385-10.
Scopus242 WoS211 Europe PMC912016 Soubrier, J., Gower, G., Chen, K., Richards, S., Llamas, B., Mitchell, K., . . . Cooper, A. (2016). Early cave art and ancient DNA record the origin of European bison. Nature Communications, 7(1), 13158-1-13158-7.
Scopus71 WoS68 Europe PMC242015 Higgins, D., Rohrlach, A., Kaidonis, J., Townsend, G., & Austin, J. (2015). Differential nuclear and mitochondrial DNA preservation in post-mortem teeth with implications for forensic and ancient DNA studies. PLoS One, 10(5), e0126935-1-e0126935-17.
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Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2018 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Exploring the Matrilineal Genomic History of Aboriginal Australians through Mitochondrial DNA Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Sophie Anne Schiller
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