Pnina’s paper on ancient DNA population genomic analysis of grapes from the Byzantine era is out in PNAS!
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2213563120

Ancient DNA is so cool! It allows us to see how the grapes that grew in the Nabatean cities in the Negev desert a thousand years ago are related to modern plants living in our region today. We could even figure out the color of the grapes! One ancient sample was a dark grape and another was light. We can tell that from genetic loci that are known to be associated with the color in modern grapes (Quantitative Trait Loci; QTL).

Pnina lead this study in the ancient DNA lab of Meirav Meiri in Tel Aviv University in collaboration with the archeology team of Guy Bar-Oz in the University of Haifa, but we still consider her of the lab! (and Eyal helped a little with the pop-gen analyses)