SPAAM6 will be taking place as a hybrid satellite meeting to the EAA 2024 being held in Rome!
When?
28th August 2024
Where?
Hybrid meeting:
- 🇮🇹 In person participants will be in Rome this year, in the same venue that EAA .
- 👩💻 But case you can’t make it to RomeThere will also be a possibility to attend online
Preliminary Programme
Conference starts at 9:30:
(everyone is welcome to arrive from 9AM onwards)
9:30-10:00 Introduction to the conference and eachother
10:00-10:30 Activity 1
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
Methodological talks:
10:50-11:10 Maxime Borry: A new approach to strain phasing for ancient DNA short reads
11:10-11:50 Nikolay Oskolkov: On accurate filtering criteria in taxonomic classification analysis
11:50-12:10 Aleksandra Laura Pach: Classifier Committee: Organizing the Toolbox of Ancient Metagenomics
12:10-13:10 Lunch
Case studies:
13:10-13:30 Maria Lopopolo: Implementing new methodological approaches to characterise the oral microbiome of Pre-colonial human populations of the Southern Cone of the Americas
13:30-13:50 Sierra Blunt: The evolution of the oral microbiome during the Neolithic transition in present-day France
13:50-14:10 Zoe Pochon: Using aMeta for metagenomics analysis of ancient hosts: The medieval necropolis of Las Gobas as a case study
14:10-14:30 Louis L’Hôte: Tracking ancient zoonosis across the domestication process
14:30-14:50 Afternoon coffee break
Discussion session:
14:50 15:35 SPAAM Community Topics: Disccusion groups
15:35 15:40 ancientmetagenomics lab review and community news
15:40 16:00 EAA session leads advertising sessions
Abstract Submission
Abstract registration is CLOSED.
Event Registration
(1) To register as an attendee please fill out this form
(2) To pay the in-person attendance fee (£15) please use the following PayPal button that will allow you to pay to our accounts under the ISBA society (our financial host):
More Information
For more information, please contact one of the SPAAM6 organisers via spaam.events@gmail.com
We’re hoping to see you there! Your organising committee:
Davide, Ele, Nathan, Louis and Aleksandra
More SPAAM related events at EAA
P.S. There are some great SPAAM sessions planned for the EAA including:
- Building bridges: An open forum for Archaeology and Metagenomics (session #854) Find all the info for this session at EAA 2024 session #854
- Bioarchaeology of Ancient Pathogens (session #704) Find all the info for this this session at EAA 2024 session #704
- Infectious Disease and Hygiene in the Neolithic and Bronze Age (session #653) Find all the info for this session at EAA 2024 session #653
- Appreciating the Archaeological Value of Preserved Faeces Using Multifaceted Methods (session #1061) Find all the info for this session at EAA 2024 session #1061
