PAASTA Annual Symposium

PAASTA Annual Symposium🍝🎙️🎄

PAASTA is hosting the annual symposium on the 1st of December at EuPA conference this year.
The theme will be Proteins beyond the Present: please prepare for 10-minute presentations. It is a hybrid event, so we welcome presentations from anyone, anywhere. The symposium will be free as usual.

Monthly Talk November 2026, Alex Burnett & Tristan Dedrie

Deconvolution and identification of mixed-species samples from historic and ancient contexts

Monthly Talk October 2026, Fan Bai & Zhongyou Wu

Rapid and robust sex determination from ancient enamel proteomes using protSexInferer

Join us on Wednesday, 7th October, at 14:00 CET for our monthly talk presented by Fan Bai and Zhongyou Wu from the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences

Monthly Talk September 2026, Luise Ørste Brandt

ZooMS-identifying skins associated with the mummified individuals from Uunartoq, Greenland with local high school students

Join us this September for an exciting talk by Luise Ørste Brandt, from the Globe Insititue, University of Copenhagen, who will be discussing a collaborative project with high school students that used ZooMS to identify ancient sources of leather.

Monthly Talk July 2026, Ioannis Patramanis

Assessing the potential of ancient protein sequences in the study of hominid evolution

This month, our speaker is Ioannis Patramanis from the University of Copenhagen, who will be discussing how ancient protein sequences contribute to the study of hominid evolution.