Research

Ancient Diseases and Nutrition

Mission

The Ancient Diseases and Nutrition Working Group is an interdisciplinary network of researchers dedicated to reconstruction of ancient health, nutrition and living standards through historical, anthropogical, bio-archaeological and bio-molecular methods.

Members

Sample

, Professor (History), Director of the Ancient Diseases and Nutrition Working group

 

Sample

Charles Stanish, Professor (Anthropology), Executive Director of IASCE

greg herbert

, Associate Professor (Geosciences), Director of IASCE

Gloria Ferreira

, Professor (USF Health -Molecular Medicine)

Robert Tykot

Robert Tykot, Professor (Anthropology)

Sample

,  Associate Professor (USF Health - Department of Global Health)

 

 

Vianello

Andrea Vianello, Visiting Research Fellow (Anthropology)

Greg o'Corry

, Research Professor, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute - 91社区 Atlantic University

hunter

, Research Associate, Rays Jiang Lab (Computational Biology & Integrative Biology)

Swamy Adapa

, Lab Manager, Rays Jiang Lab (Computational Biology & Integrative Biology)

 

 

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Caitlyn Coleman undergraduate student in Dr Andrea Vianello's team, has received the prestigious 2022 Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for her work on bioinformatics applied on bacteria and ancient pathogens.

Caitlyn Coleman (supervisor Andrea Vianello) awarded the Best Social Science Poster Award at the last USF Undergraduate Research Conference with a poster on "Pandemics Past and Present: Social Impacts Connecting the Second Plague Pandemic to COVID-19".  More 

 

Coleman poster

C. Coleman, A. Vianello, Pandemics Past and Present: Social Impacts Connecting the Second Plague Pandemic to COVID-19, USF Undergraduate Research Conference 2021.