News

2025

• Oct: Amy and Surabhi presented a talk at the Biology Postdoc Symposium, University of York.

• Sept: Amy presented a talk titled 'Tracing the prehistory of wheat in Europe' at the Green Planet Day, University of York.

• Aug: Nathan attended ISBA11 in Turin, Italy.

• July: Amy presented a talk and a poster at IWGP in Groningen, the Netherlands.

• June: Amy travelled to Albania to take samples for ancient DNA analyses from a trench profile from the site Lin 3, Lake Ohrid. 

• June: Amy travelled to Basel, Switzerland to collect archived plant remains for ancient DNA analysis. Read more.

• June: The Hidden Frontiers team organised an outreach activity for kids at the York Festival of Ideas (Making Waves). Read more.

• June: Surabhi participated in the Soapbox Science session at York and spoke about how plant DNA can help us answer important evolutionary questions.

• May: Prof Kevin Walsh has retired and is now Professor Emeritus!

• May: Amy and Surabhi presented a talk titled 'Hidden Frontiers: Crop histories within the prehistoric Alpine lake dwellings' at the Leverhume Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity forum, University of York. 

• March: Surabhi presented a talk at NorthernBUG 14, University of Huddersfield. 

• February: The Hidden Frontiers team hosted Franziska Follmann, a visiting researcher from the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin. 

• January: Surabhi joined the Hidden Frontiers team!

2024

• Oct: Amy initiated the Ancient Plants Group sessions. Talks and discussions are scheduled as per the semester system at the University of York. To join these sessions, please contact Amy at amy.holguin@york.ac.uk.