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During the monthly talk of March, Ioannis Patramanis presents his new tool for protein-based phylogenetic analysis and the associated opportunities and challenges. This research was published in the Peer Community Journal and the tool is freely accessible on Github.
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.
During the last monthly talk of the year Luke Gent reflected on his PhD journey in proteomics applied to forensics.
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.
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