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Publication
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Open Access
10
UN Sustainable Development Goals
Education
2015 - 2019
2015 - 2019Doctorate
University of Ostrava, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology and Ecology, Czech Republic
2012 - 2015
2012 - 2015Postgraduate
Istanbul University, Institute Of Graduate Studies In Sciences, Fen Fakültesi Bölümü, Turkey
2007 - 2012
2007 - 2012Undergraduate
Istanbul University, Faculty Of Science, Moleküler Biyoloji Ve Genetik Bölümü, Turkey
Dissertations
2019
2019Doctorate
Bridging the Americas and Eurasia: Population History of American Arctic Peoples
University of Ostrava, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology and Ecology
2015
2015Postgraduate
Mitochondrial Genome Analysis and Haplo-group Determination in Human Skeletons
Istanbul University
Research Areas
Physical Anthroplogy
Bioinformatics
Genomics
Evolution
Population Genetics
Research Areas Based on Academic Activities
Avesis Research Areas
WoS Research Areas
Scopus Research Areas
Academic Positions
2024 - Present
2024 - PresentAssistant Professor
Hacettepe University, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Antropoloji Bölümü
2019 - 2024
2019 - 2024Lecturer PhD
Hacettepe University, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Antropoloji Bölümü
2018 - 2019
2018 - 2019Researcher
Department of Archaeogenetics
2015 - 2019
2015 - 2019Researcher
Life Science Research Center
2014 - 2015
2014 - 2015Research Assistant
Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty Of Arts And Scıences
Supervised Theses
2025
2025Postgraduate
Unraveling Roman mobility: Archaeogenomic insights from Anatolia to the Italian peninsula
Somel M., Altınışık N. E. (Co-Advisor)
E.EKER(Student)
2023
2023Postgraduate
Anadolu Orta Çağ – Geç Osmanlı Dönemine Ait Cüzzamlı Bireylerde Mycobacterium leprae Bakterisinin Antik DNA Yöntemleriyle Analizi
Özer F. (Advisor), ALTINIŞIK N. E. (Co-Advisor)
A.SEVKAR(Student)
Taught Courses and Trainings
2019 - 2019
2019 - 2019Workshop in Computational Analysis of Ancient Genome
Academic Units - Course
Altınışık N. E.
Articles
All (25)
SCI-E, SSCI, AHCI (22)
SCI-E, SSCI, AHCI, ESCI (22)
Scopus (14)
TRDizin (2)
Other Publications (1)
2026
20261. Diet and Mobility in Byzantine Western Anatolia: Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Ratios and Ancient DNA Evidence from Barcın Höyük and Kadıkalesi Anaia
Özbal Gerrıtsen R. D., Büyükkarakaya A. M., Uysal G., Bütün E., Gerritsen F., Akbaba A., et al.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY , pp.1-21, 2026 (AHCI)
2025
20252. DeepKin: Predicting Relatedness From Low-Coverage Genomes and Palaeogenomes With Convolutional Neural Networks
Güler M. N., Yılmaz A., Katırcıoğlu B., Kantar S., Ünver T. E., Vural K. B., et al.
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES , vol.1, pp.1-19, 2025 (SCI-Expanded)
2025
20253. Demographic history of early centralized societies: A biodistance study on prehistoric Anatolia
Delibaş D., Altınışık N. E., Pilloud M. A., Koruyucu Şimşek M. M., Erdal Y. S.
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE: REPORTS
, vol.64, pp.1-13, 2025 (AHCI, Scopus)
2025
20254. Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük
YÜNCÜ E., Dogu A. K., Kaptan D., Kilic M. S., Mazzucato C., GÜLER M., et al.
SCIENCE
, vol.388, no.6754, 2025 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2025
20255. Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean
Koptekin D., Aydoğan A., Karamurat C., Altınışık N. E., Vural K. B., Kazancı D. D., et al.
Science
, vol.388, no.6754, pp.1-10, 2025 (SCI-Expanded)
2025
20256. Pre-processing of paleogenomes: mitigating reference bias and postmortem damage in ancient genome data
Koptekin D., Yapar E., Vural K. B., Sağlıcan E., Altınışık N. E., Malaspinas A., et al.
GENOME BIOLOGY , vol.26, pp.1-23, 2025 (SCI-Expanded)
2024
20247. The first complete genome of the extinct European wild ass (Equus hemionus hydruntinus)
Özkan M., Gürün K., Yüncü E., Vural K. B., Atağ G., Akbaba A., et al.
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
, vol.33, no.14, pp.1-19, 2024 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2024
20248. Archaeology meets environmental genomics: implementing sedaDNA in the study of the human past
Özdoğan K. T., Gelabert P., Hammers N., Altınışık N. E., De Groot A., Plets G.
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , vol.16, pp.1-15, 2024 (SCI-Expanded)
2024
20249. Population genomic history of the endangered Anatolian and Cyprian mouflons in relation to worldwide wild, feral and domestic sheep lineages
Atağ G., Kaptan D., Yüncü E., Vural K. B., Mereu P., Pirastru M., et al.
GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
, vol.16, no.5, pp.1-19, 2024 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2024
202410. Benchmarking kinship estimation tools for ancient genomes using pedigree simulations
Aktürk Ş., Mapelli I., Güler M. N., Gürün K., Katırcıoğlu B., Vural K. B., et al.
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
, vol.24, no.5, pp.1-17, 2024 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2023
202311. aMeta: an accurate and memory-efficient ancient metagenomic profiling workflow
Pochon Z., Bergfeldt N., Kırdök E., Vicente M., Naidoo T., Van Der Valk T., et al.
GENOME BIOLOGY , vol.24, pp.1-30, 2023 (SCI-Expanded)
2022
202212. Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean
Koptekin D., Yüncü E., Rodríguez-Varela R., Altınışık N. E., Psonis N., Kashuba N., et al.
CURRENT BIOLOGY
, vol.0, no.0, pp.1-17, 2022 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2022
202213. A genomic snapshot of demographic and cultural dynamism in Upper Mesopotamia during the Neolithic Transition
Altınışık N. E., Kazancı D. D., Aydoğan A., Gemici H. C., Erdal Ö. D., Sarıaltun S., et al.
SCIENCE ADVANCES , vol.8, no.44, pp.1-17, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
2022
202214. Science and Politics: The fight for evolution
Altınışık N. E.
ELIFE
, vol.11, pp.1-3, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
2022
202215. Indian genetic heritage in Southeast Asian populations
Changmai P., Jaisamut K., Kampuansai J., Kutanan W., Altınışık N. E., Flegontova O., et al.
Plos Genetics
, vol.18, no.2, pp.1-25, 2022 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2021
202116. Collaborate equitably in ancient DNA research and beyond
Somel M., Altınışık N. E., Özer F., Ávila-Arcos M. C.
Nature , vol.600, pp.37, 2021 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2021
202117. Archaeogenetic analysis of Neolithic sheep from Anatolia suggests a complex demographic history since domestication
Yurtman E., Özer O., Yüncü E., Dağtaş N. D., Koptekin D., Çakan Y. G., et al.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
, vol.4, no.1, 2021 (SCI-Expanded, SSCI, Scopus)
2021
202118. Human inbreeding has decreased in time through the Holocene.
Ceballos F. C., Gürün K., Altınışık N. E., Gemici H. C., Karamurat C., Koptekin D., et al.
Current biology : CB
, vol.31, pp.3925-3943, 2021 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2021
202119. Variable kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia revealed by ancient genomes
Yaka R., Mapelli I., Kaptan D., Doğu A., Chyleński M., Erdal Ö. D., et al.
CURRENT BIOLOGY
, vol.31, no.11, pp.2455-2486, 2021 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2019
201920. Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America
Flegontov P., Altinisik N. E., Changmai P., Rohland N., Mallick S., Adamski N., et al.
NATURE
, vol.570, pp.236-253, 2019 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2018
201821. Irk Kavramına Bilimsel Çerçeveden Bakış
Altınışık N. E., Taşkent Ö.
Madde, Diyalektik ve Toplum , vol.1, no.3, pp.189-196, 2018 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
2017
201722. Archaeogenomic analysis of the first steps of Neolithization in Anatolia and the Aegean
Kilinc G. M., Koptekin D., Atakuman Ç., Sumer A. P., Donertas H. M., Yaka R., et al.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
, vol.284, 2017 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2016
201623. Modern İnsan Popülasyonlarında Arkaik İzler
ALTINIŞIK N. E.
Kebikeç , vol.20, 2016 (TRDizin)
2016
201624. Adaptif Melezlenme Homo Sapiens in Dünya Yayılışında Etkileri
ALTINIŞIK N. E.
Toplum ve Hekim , vol.31, pp.295-298, 2016 (TRDizin)
2016
201625. Genomic study of the Ket: a Paleo-Eskimo-related ethnic group with significant ancient North Eurasian ancestry
Flegontov P., Changmai P., Zidkova A., Logacheva M. D., Altinisik N. E., Flegontova O., et al.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
, vol.6, 2016 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
Papers Presented at Peer-Reviewed Scientific Conferences
2024
20241. Unearthing Family Ties: An Ancient Genomic Odyssey Through Western Eurasia
ALTINIŞIK N. E., Vural K. B.
30th EAA Annual Meeting, Roma, Italy, 28 - 31 August 2024, (Summary Text)
2024
20242. Geç Antik Dönemde Melitene’de (Malatya) Genetik Çeşitlilik ve Popülasyon Dinamikleri
ALTINIŞIK N. E.
44. Uluslararası Kazı, Araştırma ve Arkeometri Sempozyumu, Nevşehir, Turkey, 27 - 31 May 2024, (Summary Text)
2024
20243. Human Mobility in the first millennium AD of Asia Minor: An Archaeogenomic Approach
Altınışık N. E.
93rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, California, United States Of America, 20 - 23 March 2024, vol.183, pp.3, (Summary Text)
2023
20234. İnsan Hareketliliğinin İzleri: Roma İmparatorluğu’nda Popülasyon Yapısı
Altınışık N. E.
VIII. Biyolojik Antropoloji Sempozyumu, Ankara, Turkey, 26 - 27 October 2023, pp.2, (Summary Text)
2022
20225. Intramural burials in Neolithic Anatolia: what do they tell about social organisation
Somel M., Altınışık N. E., Erdal Y. S., Atakuman Ç., Özer F.
Kinship, Sex, and Biological Relatedness The contribution of archaeogenetics to the understanding of social and biological relations, Halle, Germany, 6 - 08 October 2022, pp.137-148, (Full Text)
2023
20236. New Insights into the Population Structure of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Upper Mesopotamia
ALTINIŞIK N. E., Yüncü E., Kazancı D. D., Vural K. B., ERDAL Ö. D., ÖZER F., et al.
SMBE 2023, Ferrara, Italy, 22 - 27 July 2023, (Summary Text)
2022
20227. A comparative analysis on ancient genomic data: The impact of variant discovery approach on population genetics tests
Taç İ., Işıldak U., Çubukcu H., Karadavut D., Vural K. B., Altınışık N. E., et al.
15th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics HIBIT’22 (20-22 October 2022), Mersin, Turkey, 20 - 22 October 2022, pp.26, (Summary Text)
2022
20228. Population History of South Caucasus from Neolithic to Bronze Age and its Long-Term Interactions with Anatolian Peninsula
Altınışık N. E., Özer F., Sevkar A., Somel M., Erdal Y. S.
Urartu ve Ötesi Sempozyumu, Van, Turkey, 7 - 09 September 2022, pp.1, (Summary Text)
2022
20229. Neolitik Dönem Yukarı Mezopotamya Tarihine Antik DNA Perspektifinden Bir Bakış: Çayönü Tepesinden İlk Genomik Bulgular
Altınışık N. E.
42. Uluslararası Kazı, Araştırma ve Arkeometri Sempozyumu, Denizli, Turkey, 23 - 27 May 2022, (Unpublished)
2021
202110. Biological justification of stratification: race and other dimensions of rank order
Akbay G., Altınışık N. E., Somel M.
Philosophy and History of Race Workshop, 09 August 2021 - 11 January 2023, pp.6-7, (Summary Text)
2021
202111. First Genomic Insights into Pre-pottery Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia
ALTINIŞIK N. E., Aydoğan A., Kazancı D. D., Vural K. B., Koptekin D., Özkan M., et al.
9TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMOLECULAR ARCHAEOLOGY, Toulouse, France, 1 - 04 June 2021, (Summary Text)
2020
202012. Benchmarking kinship estimation tools for ancient genomes using pedigree simulations
Çetin M., Aktürk Ş., Mapelli I., Yaka R., Çokoğlu S., Zakaria D., et al.
13th The International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT 2020), İstanbul, Turkey, 22 - 23 October 2020, (Summary Text)
2020
202013. Traces of human adaptive evolution in Mediterranean region
FİDAN F. R., Fer E., ALTINIŞIK N. E., Gökçümen Ö., SOMEL M.
The International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, İstanbul, Turkey, 22 - 24 October 2020, (Summary Text)
2019
201914. Kuzey Amerika ve Kuzeydoğu Asya Halklarının İlişkisinin Genomik Açıdan İncelenmesi
ALTINIŞIK N. E., Flegontov P., Changmai P., Schiffels S.
VII. Biyolojik Antropoloji Sempozyumu, Ankara, Turkey, 23 - 25 October 2019, (Summary Text)
2018
201815. Tracing the origin and expansion of the Turkic and Hunnic confederations
Flegontov P., ALTINIŞIK N. E., Jeong C., Schiffels S., M. D. F., E. P. K., et al.
8th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, Jena, Germany, 18 - 21 September 2018, (Summary Text)
2018
201816. Indian genetic heritage in Southeast Asian populations
Changmai P., ALTINIŞIK N. E., Yüncü E., Flegontova O., Kampuansai J., Kutanan W., et al.
8th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, Jena, Germany, 18 - 21 September 2018, (Summary Text)
2018
201817. Comparing Alternative Hypotheses on the Peopling of the American Arctic
Altınışık N. E., Changmai P., Reich D., Schiffels S., Flegontov P.
II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Montpellier, France, 19 - 22 August 2018, (Summary Text)
2018
201818. Modelling the origin and expansion of Turkic speakers
ALTINIŞIK N. E., Flegontov P.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium, Turkey, İzmir, Turkey, 18 - 20 July 2018, (Summary Text)
2017
201719. A New Model for Peopling of the American Arctic
ALTINIŞIK N. E., Flegontov P.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium, Turkey, İstanbul, Turkey, 11 - 13 July 2017, (Summary Text)
2016
201620. Rare variants and autosomal haplotypes reveal the Siberian roots of North American Na Dene populations
Flegontov P., ALTINIŞIK N. E., Changmai P., Vajda E. J., Krause J., Schiffels S.
DNA Polimorphisms in Human Populations, Paris, France, 7 - 10 December 2016, (Summary Text)
Books
2024
20241. People of Anatolia: Past, Current and Future Research in the Biological Anthropology of Türkiye
Aydoğan A., Altınışık N. E., Gemici H. C., Atakuman Ç., Özer F., Somel M.
in: A genomic history of the Neolithisation in Anatolia: preliminary insights, Benjamin Irvine,Yılmaz Selim Erdal,Lutgarde Vandeput, Editor, The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara , London, pp.70-80, 2024
2021
20212. From Bones to Genomes: Current Research on the Population History of Prehistoric Anatolia
Kazancı D. D., Altınışık N. E., Aydoğan A., Özer F., Sürer E., Atakuman Ç., et al.
in: The Archaeology of Anatolia, Volume IV: Recent Discoveries (2018–2020), Sharon R. Steadman,Gregory McMahon, Editor, Cambridge Scholars Publishing , Cambridge, pp.355-371, 2021
2021
20213. Ancient genomics in Neolithic Central Anatolia and Çatalhöyük
Yaka R., Doğu A., Kaptan D., Dağtaş N. D., Chyleński M., Vural K. B., et al.
in: Peopling the Landscape of Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 2009-2017 Seasons, Ian Hodder, Editor, The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara , London, pp.1-11, 2021
Episodes in the Encyclopedia
Funded Projects
2025 - 2027
2025 - 2027From Bones to Bonds: Building the Genomic Basis for Roman Kinship Studies
TUBITAK Project , My support program is not listed (Old)
(Project Abstract)
Altınışık N. E. (Executive), Özer F.
2024 - 2027
2024 - 2027Arkeogenomik Yaklaşımlarla Tunç Çağı Batı Anadolu Populasyon Dinamiklerinin Araştırılması
TUBITAK Project , 1001 - Program for Supporting Scientific and Technological Research Projects
Kazancı D. D.(Executive), Vural K. B., Şahoğlu V., Erdal Ö. D., Altınışık N. E., Özer F., et al.
2023 - 2026
2023 - 2026Leprosy in Anatolia: a paleopatological and archaeogenomic study
TUBITAK Project , 1001 - Program for Supporting Scientific and Technological Research Projects
Somel M.(Executive), Özer F., Altınışık N. E., Erdal Y. S., Kırdök E.
2023 - 2025
2023 - 2025"Anadoluda Roma Dönemi Kıyı ve İç Kesim Toplumlarının Popülasyon Tarihinin Arkeogenomik Açıdan İncelenmesi" Başlıklı ve 121Z485 kodlu TÜBİTAK 1001 Projesine Ek Bütçe Desteği
Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions , BAP Other
ALTINIŞIK N. E. (Executive), ERDAL Y. S., ÖZER F.
2022 - 2025
2022 - 2025
Nicaean People and Byzantine Warriors: A Bioarchaeological Study (İBİS)
TUBITAK Project , 1001 - Program for Supporting Scientific and Technological Research Projects
(Project Abstract)
Erdal Y. S. (Executive), Altınışık N. E., Tekinalp V. M., Koruyucu M. M., Kazancı D. D., Vural K. B., et al.
2022 - 2025
2022 - 2025Anatolian Caucasian Relations from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages: An Archaeogenomic Study on the Human Remains of Anatolia and Azerbaijan
TUBITAK Project , 1001 - Program for Supporting Scientific and Technological Research Projects
(Project Abstract)
Özer F. (Executive), Erdal Y. S., Kazancı D. D., Vural K. B., Altınışık N. E., Kılınç G. M., et al.
2021 - 2024
2021 - 2024Investigation of the Population History of the Roman Era Coastal and Inland Societies in Anatolia from an Archaeogenomics Perspective
TUBITAK Project , 1001 - Program for Supporting Scientific and Technological Research Projects
Altınışık N. E. (Executive), Erdal Y. S., Korkut T., Vural K. B., Kazancı D. D., Özer F., et al.
2021 - 2024
2021 - 2024Mapping The Neolithic Expansion In The Mediterranean: A Scientific Collective To Promote Archaeogenomics And Evolutionary Biology Research In Turkey
H2020 Project , H2020 Other Career Development Projects
(Project Abstract)
Somel M.(Executive), Altınışık N. E., Özer F., Erdal Y. S., Atakuman Ç., Sürer E.
2018 - 2024
2018 - 2024Archaeogenomic analysis of genetic and cultural interactions in Neolithic Anatolian societies
H2020 Project , ERC H2020 European Research Council Project
(Project Abstract)
Somel M., Altınışık N. E., Özer F., Erdal Y. S.
2019 - 2021
2019 - 2021Archaeogenetic Study of Human Populations in Mainland Southeast Asia
Other International Funding Programs
Altınışık N. E., Flegontov P.(Executive)
2015 - 2017
2015 - 2017New research directions at the Life Science Research Centre
Other International Funding Programs
Altınışık N. E., Elias M.(Executive)
Memberships and Roles in Scientific Organizations
2023 - Present
2023 - PresentSociety for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Member
2015 - Present
2015 - PresentEcology and Evolutionary Biology Society of Turkey
Member
Peer Reviews in Scientific Publications
June 2020
June 2020AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Journal Indexed in SSCI
Awards
September 2017
September 2017A Timeline of Human Evolutionary Tree with Actual/Replica Skulls
European Society For Evolutionary Biology
Congress and Symposium Activities
09 July 2019 - 10 July 2019
09 July 2019 - 10 July 2019Klasik ve Modern Sistematik: Felsefi ve Bilimsel Yaklaşımlar
Panelists
Ankara-Turkey
09 February 2018 - 12 February 2018
09 February 2018 - 12 February 201812. Aykut Kence Evrim Konferansı
Invited Speaker
Ankara-Turkey
Invited Talks
October 2019
October 2019İnsanın Evrimsel Yolculuğunun Genomdaki İzleri
Workshop
İzmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü-Turkey
February 2018
February 2018Kuzey Amerika yerlilerinin populasyon tarihi
Seminar
Hacettepe Üniversitesi-Turkey
Scholarships
2015 - 2019
2015 - 2019