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
Charles Stanish, Professor (Anthropology), Executive Director of IASCE
Gregory Herbert, Associate Professor (Geosciences), Director of IASCE
Gloria Ferreira, Professor (USF Health -Molecular Medicine)
Robert Tykot, Professor (Anthropology)
Rays Jiang, Associate Professor (USF Health - Department of Global Health)
Andrea Vianello, Visiting Research Fellow (Anthropology)
Greg O’Corry-Crowe, Research Professor, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute - Florida Atlantic University
Gregory Hunter, Research Associate, 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. More
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
C. Coleman, A. Vianello, Pandemics Past and Present: Social Impacts Connecting the Second Plague Pandemic to COVID-19, USF Undergraduate Research Conference 2021.