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I'm a PhD student in the Paleoanthropology team at CIRB. My main research interest is the development of new methodologies applied to ancient human DNA, pathogens and proteins. My bachelor's and master's theses both focused on testing and modifying methods for recovering ancient DNA from human bones and teeth. The outcome of my PhD will be to develop and apply a novel proteomic approach to identify biological species from archaeological bone specimens by screening with Orbitrap technology up to 200 samples per day. The advantages over peptide mass fingerprinting will be represented by the acquisition of a much richer dataset per sample, higher sensitivity, higher automation and the possibility of using standard spectral identification software.

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