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Ruairidh Macleod has been elected as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford! He will start there from October 2025. This is an independent research fellowship lasting 5 years and funded by the College from which Ruairidh will develop his own projects related to the study of ancient DNA, particularly around human disruption of ecosystems and zoonotic spillover risk in prehistory. Congratulations, Ruairidh! All the best!

Our first BAP MORS of 2025! These seminars are a great way to learn and connect with our international team on a regular basis. March 4, 2025: Ruairidh Macleod (University of Cambridge).“Lethal Plague Outbreaks in Lake Baikal Hunter-Gatherers 5500 years ago” Thank you to Ruairidh for presenting his interesting research!

Congratulations to Dr. Ruairidh Macleod, BAP PhD student at University of Cambridge, for successfully defending his PhD dissertation! On Wednesday the 18th of December, Ruairidh ('Rory') Macleod successfully defended his PhD thesis titled 'An Ancient Genomic Perspective of Kinship, Disease, and Environment' at the University of Cambridge. This centred on ancient genome data from Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers at Lake Baikal, in particular case studies from an apparent EBA massacre group, outbreaks of pathogens among occupants of LN cemeteries, and study [...]

Congratulations to BAP Ph.D. student Ruairidh Macleod on the publication of his book chapter in Field Sampling for Laboratory Analysis in Archaeology (ed. Evi Margaritis, Artemios Oikonomou, Efthymia Nikita,Thilo Rehren) 65–87 (The Cyprus Institute, 2023)! Chapter 9 Title: Sampling for ancient biomolecular data: DNA, proteins and lipids from specific archaeological sample types Introduction: Ancient biomolecular analyses have rapidly risen to prominence in archaeological research, generating a considerable breadth of novel evidence for behaviour, population history and subsistence in [...]