Funded by a Danish National Research Foundation Niels Bohr Professorship award (DNRF128 PROTEIOS) until September 2021.
Palaeoproteomics in the Collins Group
The Collins Group study the survival of proteins in ancient samples and how to apply them to questions in archaeology and beyond.
Two major projects Beast to Craft and ArcHives focus on the application of molecular methods to historical material culture.
Our research into patterns of protein diagenesis (Nair with MATH’s Carsten Wuif; Fonseca with Colin Freeman, Sheffield) will improve the targeting of samples. Collaboration with Susan Stipp (DTU) and Karina Sand (KU) will help us understand our new findings on exceptionally old sequences proteins and may shed a light of specific protein regions controlling mineral formation.
Our group is also advancing ZooMS a method we developed for rapid identification of archaeological bone. We are seeking to make this more widely accessible to both academic and commercial archaeology. We are a centre for establishing a global network for international collaboration in this method, helped by the fact that all the leading centres are led by former PhD or PDRAs from our group.
Link to all our publications here.
Main Findings
So you want to do biocodicology? A field guide to the biological analysis of parchment
Fiddyment, S., Teasdale, M. D., Vnouček, J., Lévêque, É., Binois, A., & Collins, M. J. 2019. Heritage Science. 7:35.
Identifying Archaeological Bone via Non-Destructive ZooMS and the Materiality of Symbolic Expression: Examples from Iroquoian Bone Points
McGrath, K., Rowsell, K., Gates St-Pierre, C., Tedder, A., Foody, G., Roberts, C., … Collins, M. (2019). Scientific Reports, 9(1):11027.
Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships
Presslee, S., Slater, G. J., Pujos, F., Forasiepi, A. M., Fischer, R., Molloy, K., … MacPhee, R. D. E. (2019). Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3:1121-1130.
- Carlsberg Foundation
- DNRF
- EU Horizon 2020
- MSCA CoFund
- NERC
Projects
Group members
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| Laura Cristina Viñas Caron | Postdoc | +4535332094 | |
| Luise Ørsted Scharff Brandt | Associate Professor | ||
| Max Ramsøe | Academic Research Staff | +4535326105 |
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Beatriz Fonseca de Menconca
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PhD
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Panagiotis Praftsas
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Student intern
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Yun Chiang
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Guest PhD student |