Dr Hannah Moots
Postdoctoral researcher
I am a postdoctoral researcher whose research integrates paleogenomic data with archaeological and ecological approaches to better understand population changes and human-environment interactions through time.
My role on the MAMBA project is extracting ancient DNA from mammoth bones found in the bone accumulations that are the focus of this study; library preparation, and sequencing; computational analyses of the data in collaboration with David, Love and other team members.
I’m interested in generating and using time series genomic data to studying changes in ecological, wildlife and human communities through time.
I co-led a team that built a 12,000-year-long time series of ancient human genomes from central Italy to study the rise and fragmentation of the Roman Empire. We later expanded this work to other locations in the central Mediterranean (Sardinia and Tunisia) to study mobility and interactions in the region during the Punic and Roman periods.