Dorothea Mylopotamitaki

Biography

I am a PhD candidate within the Paleoanthropolgy team of the CIRB. My main research interest is in developing new methodologies applied to ancient human DNA, pathogens, and proteins. My BSc and MSc theses were both focused on testing and modifying methods for the recovery of ancient DNA from human bones and teeth. The outcome of my PhD will be to develop and apply a novel proteomic approach to identify the biological species of 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 ability to use off-the-shelf spectral identification software.