Objective
We propose an inter-institutional, interdisciplinary training centre dedicated to the recovery of information from ancient biomolecules, GeneTime. The study of ancient biomolecules is a vibrant and innovative new interdisciplinary research area, with important scientific and cultural implications. Small, fragmented bimolecular remains have proved to be storehouses of past information, and their analyses can provide a window to the past, yielding information that is both of relevance and fascination in modern Europe, and its peoples. Ancient remains (museum skins, fossil bones, dried animal dung, blood stains, and even ice and sediment samples) contain records of genetic diversity and histories of both extinct and living species in the form of preserved DNA and proteins. With the right technologies this record can reveal novel data about how fauna and flora have responded to climate change and migration events, and identify key genetic and behavioural adaptations. In addition, early domestic specimens hold potentially valuable information about the changes in genetic diversity and dietary behaviour that produced modern domesticated animals and plants. Europe is the world leader in this uniquely exciting new area of research but due to the speed of methodological development and the extreme interdisciplinary of the field, training and resources are fragmented within and between countries. Centres of excellence do exist and GeneTime attempts to link to together four of these. Each institute has a particular research advantage, and by combining them the sum will be far greater than the parts. This will form a unique, high profile early training site, unparalleled in scope and seeking to share benefits of training and research
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- humanities history and archaeology history
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics DNA
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
- humanities history and archaeology archaeology archaeometry
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
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FP6-2002-MOBILITY-2
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YORK
United Kingdom
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