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Monthly Talk February 2025, Pauline Raymond

Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology: Building Community and Exploring Neanderthal Subsistence

In this first monthly talk of 2025, Pauline Raymond discusses the developments in integrating ZooMS analyses in zooarchaeological research, especially with a focus on Neanderthal subsistence. This research also features in the special issue of PaleoAnthropology on ZooMS and zooarchaeology.

Monthly Talk December 2024, Luke Gent

The Highs and Lows of Proteomics in Forensics: my PhD Odyssey

During the last monthly talk of the year Luke Gent reflected on his PhD journey in proteomics applied to forensics.

Monthly Talk November 2024, Diljá Ásmundsdóttir

Human skeletal proteome variation

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.

First PAASTA Conference

PAASTA Conference - New Methods & Approaches

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.

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Monthly Talk June 2024, Emese Végh

Speciescan: Semi-automated taxonomic identification of bone collagen peptides from MALDI-TOF-MS

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.