Rajiv
Boscolo Agostini

Welcome to my webpage!

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University.
I am studying ancient human population structure and mobility in the Mediterranean (Italian peninsula and islands) and in Scandinavia.
I have also worked on projects involving different fields, such as employing bacterial markers for tracing human migrations or the reconstruction of demographic dynamics in invasive species.
My main topics of interest are: Population Genomics, Ancient DNA, Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Biology.

Research experience

• Population Genomics
• Paleogenomics
• Bacterial Genomics
• Invasive Species

• Curriculum Vitae

Publications

• A. Tommasi*, R. Boscolo Agostini*, G. Villani*, N. Rambaldi Migliore, M. T. Vizzari, I. Caridnali, R. Di Gerlando, V. Nicolini, G. Sorasio, P. Santos, A. Olivieri, U. A. Perego, G. Catalano, N. Volante, L. Sarti, D. Caramelli, L. Sineo, H. Lancioni, A. Modi, S. Ghirotto**, and A. Achilli**
  Fifteen millennia of human mitogenome evolution in Sicily
  Science Advances, 2025. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ady1674


• Rajiv Boscolo Agostini, Maria Teresa Vizzari, Andrea Benazzo, Silvia Ghirotto
  Disentangling the worldwide invasion process of Halyomorpha halys through approximate Bayesian computation
  Heredity, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-024-00735-9.


• M. T. Vizzari, S. Ghirotto, R. Boscolo Agostini, P.M. Delser, L. Cassidy, A. Manica, and A. Benazzo,
  "Low-ABC: a robust demographic Inference from low-coverage whole-genome data through ABC"
  bioRxiv, 2024-08.


• Vale, F. F., HpGP Research Network, Roberts, R. J., Kobayashi, I., Camargo, M. C., & Rabkin, C. S.
  Gene content, phage cycle regulation model and prophage inactivation disclosed by prophage genomics in the Helicobacter pylori Genome Project. Gut Microbes, 2024 16(1), 2379440.


• Thorell, Z. Y. Muñoz-Ramírez, D. Wang, S. Sandoval-Motta, R. Boscolo Agostini, S. Ghirotto, R. C. Torres, D. Falush, M. C. Camargo, and C. S. Rabkin,
  “The Helicobacter pylori genome project: Insights into H. pylori population structure from analysis of a worldwide collection of complete genomes”
  Nature Communications, 2023. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43562-y.


• A. Modi*, M. T. Vizzari*, G. Catalano, R. Boscolo Agostini, S. Vai, M. Lari, C. Vergata, V. Z. Zaro, L. Liccioli, M. Fedi, S. Barone, L. Nigro, H. Lancioni, A. Achilli, L. Sineo, D. Caramelli, and S. Ghirotto,
  “Genetic structure and differentiation from early bronze age in the mediterranean island of Sicily: Insights from ancient mitochondrial genomes”
  Frontiers in Genetics, 2022. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.945227.


• S. Sarno*, R. Boscolo Agostini*, S. De Fanti, G. Ferri, S. Ghirotto, G. Modenini, D. Pettener, and A. Boattini
  “Y-chromosome variability and genetic history of commons from Northern Italy”
  American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2021. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24302.