Digging for DNA: Archaeology, Genetics & the Transatlantic Slave Trade is an article posted on Medium.com about EUROTAST and the impact of genetics on archaeological and historical research. Here is the first paragraph: Marcela Sandoval gave me a wry grin, then covered her face with a mask. Next, a covering for her hair, goggles, booties…
First, Petr Triska and his advisor, Luisa Pereira, authored an article in Nature’s Scientific Reports on the differences in selection signatures between human populations. By investigating the diversity in 104 nuclear-coded mitochondrial proteins from a worldwide sample of 1,092 individuals, the study showed a significantly lower amount of pathogenic mutations in Europeans when compared with…
Reminder: Submissions for the Genetics/Heritage Conference are due 1 December. Genetics/heritage is an international conference that brings together perspectives from population genetics, archaeology, anthropology, and history to better understand the contemporary legacies of the transatlantic slave trade. This three day conference will highlight the results from EUROTAST, a Marie Curie Initial Training Network of science…
Location: Handsworth Library, Soho Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, B21 9DP Date: 5 November 2014, 18.30-20.30 Through this interactive talk the audience will discover the different ways that scientists, archaeologists and historians learn about the transatlantic slave trade. They will also gain an understanding of how the transatlantic slave trade resulted in the spread of disease. Activities…
EUROTAST fellow Jessica Hendy is a scientist and archaeologist who studies health and disease during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. She is based at the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and is supervised by Dr. Matthew Collins. Check out the video for more about Jessica’s fascinating research!
EUROTAST fellow Sarah Abel was invited to give a talk about her work on ancestry genetics testing and race at a Community Perspectives event in Birmingham. Her lecture was well-received and she fielded incisive questions from the audience about politics, race, and genetics. From her discussion of the event: The idea was to present some…
Winston Phulgence and Jessica Hendy appeared on BBC York with Elly Fiorentini to talk about their EUROTAST research. Listen to their segment above, or the whole show on the BBC website. They chatted with Elly about the importance of educating students in Europe, Africa, North America, and the Caribbean about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and…
EUROTAST fellow Winston Phulgence is conducting his PhD in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, supervised by Jonathan Finch. His work on memorialization and the Transatlantic Slave Trade reaches from Ghana, to the Caribbean, and into the United States. In this video we hear Winston describe his project, as we try to capture…
Black Beneath the Skin? A Conversation on Genetics, Colour and Ancestry in the Atlantic World. Drawing on case studies and research from Brazil, America, Britain and West Africa, EUROTAST research fellow Sarah Abel will be discussing how genetics, race, politics and memory are coming together in new and thought-provoking ways in post-slavery Atlantic societies. An…
From 25 – 29 August 2014, EUROTAST fellows studying population genetics and bioinformatics (Marcela Sandoval Velasco, Cesar Fortes Lima, Anuradha Jagadeesan, Petr Triska, Tanja Heinz and Hákon Jónsson) attended a Genotyping Workshop hosted by the Centre for Geogenetics in Copenhagen, Denmark. The main objective of the workshop was to provide advanced training in some of the methods…