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Skeletal remains are one of the most commonly analysed materials in palaeoproteomics, but can a sample from one skeletal element be representative of the proteome of the entire skeleton? In this talk the variation in the recoverable proteome from different skeletal elements is investigted and what this means for sampling best practices.
This autumn we are organising the first PAASTA conference with the theme “New Methods & Approaches”. The conference will be a one-day online event and will be held on the 26th of September. In the morning there will be four invited talks on the current state of palaeoproteomics, as well as on what the future might bring. In the afternoon, there will be four sessions of 10 minute talks by early career researchers for which we would like to invite abstracts. Apart from the standard one-presenter presentations, we would also like to encourage TAG team presentations by researchers from different groups working on similar topics. You can sign up as a pre-formed team or allow to be matched to other presenters by the organisation.
More …This month’s highlighted talk featured Emese Végh, who presented her work on Speciescan, a semi-automated tool for obtaining taxonomic identifications from MALDI-TOF spectra. You can rewatch the talk on the PAASTA YouTube channel, YouTube recording.
In our May Monthly talk Claire Koenig presents her work on developing an automated workflow for obtaining sex identifications from human enamel. A recording of the talk can be watched on the PAASTA YouTube channel, YouTube recording.
This month’s talk will be given by Johanna Krüger and will deal with the challenges of inferring phylogenetic relationships based on the limited and degraded protein sequence information that we are usually able to extract. The talk can be rewatched on the PAASTA YouTube channel, YouTube recording.
