Molecular laboratory focused on the study of ancient lipids and metabolites
Gas Chromatography coupled to a flame ionisation detector and a mass spectrometer (Agilent 8890/5977B GC-MS)
Environmental biomarkers
Dominant vegetation and ecosystem shifts
Terrestrial and macrophytic input
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction based on microbial biosignatures
Reconstruction of Arctic paleo sea ice
Archaeal and bacterial lipids as proxies for paleo temperatures (soon possible)
Polycyclic aromatic hidrocarbons (PAHs) and other molecules associated with fire
Anthropogenic biomarkers
Sourcing of faecal matter, paleodiet and settlement history
Production and use of portsherds
Sourcing and material identification
Microbiome-associated biomarkers
Analysis of metabolic products of the cholesterol metabolism
Analysis of microbially regulated short chain fatty acids with FID
Analysis of small molecules from the gut by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
Summons, R. E., Welander, P. V., & Gold, D. A. (2022). Lipid biomarkers: molecular tools for illuminating the history of microbial life. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 20(3), 174-185