Meriam Guellil, BA MSc PhD
Publications
Beneker, O, Molinaro, L, Guellil, M, Sasso, S, Kabral, H, Bonucci, B, Gaens, N, D’Atanasio, E, Mezzavilla, M, Delbrassine, H, Braet, L, Lambert, B, Deckers, P, Biagini, SA, Hui, R, Becelaere, S, Geypen, J, Hoebreckx, M, Berk, B, Driesen, P, Pijpelink, A, van Damme, P, Vanhoutte, S, De Winter, N, Saag, L, Pagani, L, Tambets, K, Scheib, CL, Larmuseau, MHD & Kivisild, T 2025, 'Urbanization and genetic homogenization in the medieval Low Countries revealed through a ten-century paleogenomic study of the city of Sint-Truiden', Genome Biology, vol. 26, no. 1, 127. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03580-z
Badillo-Sanchez, DA, Jones, DJL, Guellil, M, Inskip, SA & Scheib, CL 2025, 'Correction: Badillo-Sanchez et al. Human Archaeological Dentin as Source of Polar and Less Polar Metabolites for Untargeted Metabolomic Research: The Case of Yersinia pestis. Metabolites 2023, 13, 588', Metabolites, vol. 15, no. 3, 187. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo15030187
Llanos-Lizcano, A, Hämmerle, M, Sperduti, A, Sawyer, S, Zagorc, B, Özdoğan, KT, Guellil, M, Cheronet, O, Kuhlwilm, M, Pinhasi, R & Gelabert, P 2025, 'Intra-individual variability in ancient plasmodium DNA recovery highlights need for enhanced sampling', Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 757. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-85038-z
Hämmerle, M, Guellil, M, Trgovec-Greif, L, Cheronet, O, Sawyer, S, Ruiz-Gartzia, I, Lizano, E, Rymbekova, A, Gelabert, P, Bernardi, P, Han, S, Rattei, T, Schuenemann, VJ, Marques-Bonet, T, Guschanski, K, Calvignac-Spencer, S, Pinhasi, R & Kuhlwilm, M 2024, 'Screening great ape museum specimens for DNA viruses', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 29806. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80780-w
Sasso, S, Saag, L, Spros, R, Beneker, O, Molinaro, L, Biagini, SA, Lehouck, A, Van De Vijver, K, Hui, R, D'Atanasio, E, Kushniarevich, A, Kabral, H, Metspalu, E, Guellil, M, Ali, MQA, Geypen, J, Hoebreckx, M, Berk, B, De Winter, N, Driesen, P, Pijpelink, A, Van Damme, P, Scheib, CL, Deschepper, E, Deckers, P, Snoeck, C, Dewilde, M, Ervynck, A, Tambets, K, Larmuseau, MHD & Kivisild, T 2024, 'Capturing the fusion of two ancestries and kinship structures in Merovingian Flanders', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 121, no. 27, e2406734121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2406734121
Guellil, M, van Dorp, L, Saag, L, Beneker, O, Bonucci, B, Sasso, S, Saupe, T, Solnik, A, Kabral, H, Allmäe, R & others 2024, '2500 Years of Human Betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B Evolution Revealed by Ancient DNA', bioRxiv.
Hämmerle, M, Rymbekova, A, Gelabert, P, Sawyer, S, Cheronet, O, Bernardi, P, Calvignac-Spencer, S, Kuhlwilm, M, Guellil, M & Pinhasi, R 2024, 'Link between Monkeypox Virus Genomes from Museum Specimens and 1965 Zoo Outbreak', Emerging infectious diseases, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 815-817. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3004.231546
Keller, M, Guellil, M, Slavin, P, Saag, L, Irdt, K, Niinemäe, H, Solnik, A, Malve, M, Valk, H, Kriiska, A, Cessford, C, Inskip, SA, Robb, JE, Cooper, C, Planta, CV, Seifert, M, Reitmaier, T, Baetsen, WA, Walker, D, Lösch, S, Szidat, S, Metspalu, M, Kivisild, T, Tambets, K & Scheib, CL 2023, A Refined Phylochronology of the Second Plague Pandemic in Western Eurasia. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.18.549544
Badillo-Sanchez, DA, Jones, DJL, Guellil, M, Inskip, SA & Scheib, CL 2023, 'Human Archaeological Dentin as Source of Polar and Less Polar Metabolites for Untargeted Metabolomic Research: The Case of Yersinia pestis', Metabolites, vol. 13, no. 5, 588. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo13050588
Guellil, M, van Dorp, L, Inskip, SA, Dittmar, JM, Saag, L, Tambets, K, Hui, R, Rose, A, D'Atanasio, E, Kriiska, A, Varul, L, Koekkelkoren, AMHC, Goldina, RD, Cessford, C, Solnik, A, Metspalu, M, Krause, J, Herbig, A, Robb, JE, Houldcroft, CJ & Scheib, CL 2022, 'Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia', Science Advances, vol. 8, no. 30, eabo4435. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo4435
Guellil, M & Keller, M 2022, 'Rekonstruktion mikrobieller Evolution durch Sequenzierung alter DNA', BioSpektrum, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 287-290. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-022-1766-x
Guellil, M, Keller, M, Dittmar, JM, Inskip, SA, Cessford, C, Solnik, A, Kivisild, T, Metspalu, M, Robb, JE & Scheib, CL 2022, 'An invasive Haemophilus influenzae serotype b infection in an Anglo-Saxon plague victim', Genome Biology, vol. 23, no. 1, 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-021-02580-z
Guellil, M, Rinaldo, N, Zedda, N, Kersten, O, Muro, XG, Stenseth, NC, Gualdi-Russo, E & Bramanti, B 2021, 'Bioarchaeological insights into the last plague of Imola (1630-1632)', Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 22253. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98214-2
Pfrengle, S, Neukamm, J, Guellil, M, Keller, M, Molak, M, Avanzi, C, Kushniarevich, A, Montes, N, Neumann, GU, Reiter, E, Tukhbatova, RI, Berezina, NY, Buzhilova, AP, Korobov, DS, Suppersberger Hamre, S, Matos, VMJ, Ferreira, MT, Gonzalez-Garrido, L, Wasterlain, SN, Lopes, C, Santos, AL, Antunes-Ferreira, N, Duarte, V, Silva, AM, Melo, L, Sarkic, N, Saag, L, Tambets, K, Busso, P, Cole, ST, Avlasovich, A, Roberts, CA, Sheridan, A, Cessford, C, Robb, J, Krause, J, Scheib, CL, Inskip, SA & Schuenemann, VJ 2021, 'Mycobacterium leprae diversity and population dynamics in medieval Europe from novel ancient genomes', BMC Biology, vol. 19, no. 1, 220. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01120-2
Cessford, C, Scheib, CL, Guellil, M, Keller, M, Alexander, C, Inskip, SA & Robb, JE 2021, 'Beyond Plague Pits: Using Genetics to Identify Responses to Plague in Medieval Cambridgeshire', European Journal of Archaeology , vol. 24, no. 4, 146195712100019, pp. 496-518. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2021.19
Guellil, M, Kersten, O, Namouchi, A, Luciani, S, Marota, I, Arcini, CA, Iregren, E, Lindemann, RA, Warfvinge, G, Bakanidze, L, Bitadze, L, Rubini, M, Zaio, P, Zaio, M, Neri, D, Stenseth, NC & Bramanti, B 2020, 'A genomic and historical synthesis of plague in 18th century Eurasia', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 117, no. 45, pp. 28328-28335. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009677117
Seifert, M, Cooper, C, Keller, M, Guellil, M & CL, S 2020, Der Pestfriedhof des 17. Jahrhunderts. in L Burkhardt (ed.), Domat/Ems Sogn Pieder: Vom frühmittelalterlichen Herrenhof zum neuzeitlichen Pestfriedhof (2 Bände). Edition Somedia. <https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=mX0QzgEACAAJ>
Ottoni, C, Guellil, M, Ozga, AT, Stone, AC, Kersten, O, Bramanti, B, Porcier, S & Van Neer, W 2019, 'Metagenomic analysis of dental calculus in ancient Egyptian baboons', Scientific Reports, vol. 9, no. 1, 19637. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56074-x
Jarve, M, Saag, L, Scheib, CL, Pathak, AK, Montinaro, F, Pagani, L, Flores, R, Guellil, M, Saag, L, Tambets, K, Kushniarevich, A, Solnik, A, Varul, L, Zadnikov, S, Petrauskas, O, Avramenko, M, Magomedov, B, Didenko, S, Toshev, G, Bruyako, I, Grechko, D, Okatenko, V, Gorbenko, K, Smyrnov, O, Heiko, A, Reida, R, Sapiehin, S, Sirotin, S, Tairov, A, Beisenov, A, Starodubtsev, M, Vasilev, V, Nechvaloda, A, Atabiev, B, Litvinov, S, Ekomasova, N, Dzhaubermezov, M, Voroniatov, S, Utevska, O, Shramko, I, Khusnutdinova, E, Metspalu, M, Savelev, N, Kriiska, A, Kivisild, T & Villems, R 2019, 'Shifts in the Genetic Landscape of the Western Eurasian Steppe Associated with the Beginning and End of the Scythian Dominance', Current Biology, vol. 29, no. 14, pp. 2430-2441.e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.019
Namouchi, A, Guellil, M, Kersten, O, Hansch, S, Ottoni, C, Schmid, BV, Pacciani, E, Quaglia, L, Vermunt, M, Bauer, EL, Derrick, M, Jensen, AO, Kacki, S, Cohn, SK, Stenseth, NC & Bramanti, B 2018, 'Integrative approach using Yersinia pestis genomes to revisit the historical landscape of plague during the Medieval Period', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 115, no. 50, pp. E11790-E11797. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1812865115