ASPR affiliate Tina Warinner has been keeping busy in this summer with writing, talks, conferences, and more! See below for more information about what she has been up to.
Here is Tina just before her presentation at the Nobel Symposium in Stockholm, Sweden. Her talk was titled “The archaeology of microbes and the future of lost genomes.”
This image was captioned “Fun times during ‘Bavarian Night’ at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology retreat at Ringberg Castle, Bavaria” by Tina. She spent time at the institute this summer, where she wrote up multiple ancient DNA research projects on Roman wine, the evolution of the oral microbiome, viral evolution, and the Bronze Age spread of domesticated cattle in Asia.
Tina was an invited participant in a TED retreat in early June. Here, Tina and other fellows from the retreat are pictured in Provincetown, MA.
This image is from the 2025 retreat for the Paleobiotechnology research group, funded by the Werner Siemens Foundation. Tina is in the back row, fourth from the right. She co-lead the Paleobiotechnology project with Pierre Stallforth (back row, third from right) at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology. Our Paleobiotechnology research group explores anthropological microbiomes – both in the past and in diverse human communities today – to better understand the long arc of human-microbial interactions in order to develop better antimicrobial therapies for the future.
In August, Tina will teach Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics, Summer School co-sponsored by the Max Planck-Harvard Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM), the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), and the Standards, Precautions, and Advances in Ancient Metagenomics community (SPAAM), and financially supported by the Werner Siemens Foundation. 38 students from 14 countries will be in attendance. In addition, Tina will also attend the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology conference, which will take place this summer in Torino, Italy, from August 26-29.