Leibniz ScienceCampus GACT

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Leibniz ScienceCampus "Geogenomic Archaeology Campus Tübingen" - Diachronic Impacts of Humans on Ecosystems Using Caves as Models

GACT is a cooperation between:
@leibnizgemeinschaft
@mwk_bw Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg
#Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
@unituebingen
@[email protected]

Websitehttps://geogenarch-tuebingen.de/
Newshttps://geogenarch-tuebingen.de/aktuelles/
Yesterday we celebrated the opening of our exhibition “Dirty Science”. Read more: https://geogenarch-tuebingen.de/aktuelles/a-milestone-achieved-dirty-science/?_thumbnail_id=2042
#Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
@unituebingen
@mpi_bio
Exhibition is ready! Opening tomorrow at 7 pm in the Schlosskirche on Schloss Hohentübingen. You are welcome to join us! The exhibition will stay until the end of November in the Schlosslabor. Entrance is free.
Our exhibition "Dirty Science" is opening on April, 16, 7 pm in the Schlosskirche on Schloss Hohentübingen. You are welcome to join us!
Only three weeks to go until our exhibition “Dirty Science – Cave Sediments as Archives of the Past” opens! The GACT team has been busy setting things up. The opening reception will take place on April 16 at 7 PM in the Castle of Tübingen. We’re looking forward to seeing you there!
We have a new postdoc in our team: Susanne Zabel. Read more: https://geogenarch-tuebingen.de/aktuelles/new-gact-postdoc-started/
We wrote a report about our sampling trip in Serbia last summer (German language). Read the full article on our website: https://geogenarch-tuebingen.de/news/gact-in-serbia/
You want to take sediment samples from archaeological sites for a variety of analysis? Have a look at our best practise sampling protocol:
https://www.protocols.io/view/sampling-protocol-for-obtaining-sediment-from-arch-n2bvjex45gk5/v1
Sampling protocol for obtaining sediment from archaeological excavations in caves and rockshelters for the ...

The objective of this protocol is to guide systematic collection of sediment samples from archaeological excavations in caves and rockshelters in order to perform biomolecular a...

protocols.io
We are pleased to share that Andreas Kappler (on the right), one of our initial GACT-members, has been recognized for the 3rd time as a Highly Cited Researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) at Clarivate.
https://geogenarch-tuebingen.de/aktuelles/highly-cited-researcher-at-gact/
@unituebingen

Part of the Leibniz ScienceCampi involves public outreach —
We are therefore pleased to share our first contribution to The Conversation, in collaboration with Tilman Wörtz from the @unituebingen.

https://theconversation.com/dna-from-soil-could-soon-reveal-who-lived-in-ice-age-caves-270318

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@mpi_bio

DNA from soil could soon reveal who lived in ice age caves

The recovery of ancient DNA is no longer limited to bones.

The Conversation
New publication is out: Our visiting researcher Greta Brancaleoni and GACT member Susan Mentzer were working together on samples from Sel'Ungur Cave
https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.70032.