PhD student Dagmara Miernecka wins poster prize

25 March 2014

Dagmara Miernecka, a PhD student working in the OGU, won the best poster by a 1st year student at the Natural Systems and Processes Poster Sesssion.

Congratulations to Dagmara Miernecka, a PhD student working in the OGU with Professor Richard Evershed, who won the best poster by a 1st year student at the Natural Systems and Processes Poster Session on the 24th of March. The title of her poster was " Got milk? The Milking Revolution in Temperate Neolithic Europe: An Organic Residue Approach".

Dagmara is planning to use lipid residue analysis on archaeological pottery, along with genetic evidence, to better help understand the gene-culture coevolution of Lactase Persistence (LP) and dairying during the Early Neolithic. Future work will involve radiocarbon dating of C16:0 and C18:0 fatty acids of animal fats by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and determination of compound-specific deuterium isotope values for C16:0 and C18:0 fatty acids by GC-thermal conversion-IRMS.

Dagmara follows in the footsteps of Alice Charteris who also won the best poster by a 1st year student at last years NSPPS. Alice is currently a 2nd year PhD student working with Professor Richard Evershed on the fate of nitrate through soil and into the groundwater zone.