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Hi hi!! Happy Monday morning or whatever it is where you are! I am Shreya, ancient pathogen grad student and more relevantly a SPAAM engagement officer — that means I am here to connect with the SPAAM community and see how things are going and what can happen to make sure SPAAM is welcoming and useful to you! I am a born and raised Californian who moved to Chicago for grad school (yes, the weather was an adjustment). I wanted to bring together the SPAAMers who are not based in Europe because we are rather spread out and it can be hard to meet other people working in similar fields. Feel free to introduce yourself! I’ll be popping in here with questions/check-ins for y’all but you are always welcome to reach out to me with feedback/opinions/ideas/whatever :poop_party:
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Hi! Thanks for setting this up Shreya! I'm Meriam, ancient DNA PhD student at the University of Otago, New Zealand. I grew up in The Netherlands, but moved to NZ for an internship during my BSc (and kind of never left 😬). For my Masters I worked on the detection of pathogens in human remains in Remote Oceania (mainly looking for TB), and currently I'm working on metagenomic analysis of dog coprolites across NZ!
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