Christiana Scheib

Christiana Scheib is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the School of Biological Sciences and the Department of Zoology. Her research focuses on disease, immune response, and historical epidemics, utilizing palaeoproteomics and aDNA methods to study ancient immune-response and pathogen proteins. Scheib's work explores host–pathogen dynamics and their impact on modern genomes. Her research areas include palaeoproteins, ancient DNA, population genomics, immunology, ecology, and evolutionary genomics.

Christiana Lyn Scheib is a researcher specializing in archaeogenetics, bioarchaeology, genetics, ancient DNA, and evolution. Her work focuses on using genomic analyses to explore migration events during the peopling of Eurasia, the diversification of ancient pathogens like Yersinia pestis, and the genetic continuity and admixture in regions such as the Levant and North America. Scheib's research also investigates the impact of historical events, such as the Crusades, on genetic landscapes and employs ancient DNA to reconstruct human prehistory. Her studies contribute to understanding the genetic ancestry changes during key transitions, including the Stone to Bronze Age shift in the East European plain and the arrival of Siberian ancestry in the Eastern Baltic.