Duration: 2023-2024
Financial support: The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, United States
Co-coordinators: Scott Maddux, Emma Handler, John Willman
Partner Institutions: The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, The University of Iowa
Duration: 01/2023 – 07/2023
Abstract: The main objective of this project is to estimate the prevalence of the Hemoglobin S carriers in São Tomé and Príncipe. The secondary objectives are: to characterize sociodemographically the carriers of Hemoglobin S in the country; to map the geographic distribution of the Hemoglobin S carriers; to assess drepanocytosis literacy among participants and its sociodemographic determinants; and to estimate the prevalence of woman of childbearing age with homozygosity (HbSS) or with combinations of Hemoglobin S with other hemoglobin variants.
Coordinator (PI): Celeste Bento (CIAS)
Participants: Guilherme Queiroz (CIAS), Celdidy Monteiro, Licínio Manco (CIAS), Luis Relvas, Maria de Jesus Trovoada
Partner institutions: Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde (CIAS), Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal; Laboratorio de Eritropatologia, Unidade Funcional de Hematologia Molecular, Serviço de Hematologia Clínica, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Portugal; Associação Portuguesa de Pais e Doentes com Hemoglobinopatias (APPDH); Unidade de Saúde Pública do ACES Baixo Vouga, Administração Regional de Saúde do Centro, Portugal; Associação Filhos da Meia Lua Vermelha (AFMLV), São Tomé e Príncipe; Hospital Dr. Ayres de Menezes; Centro Nacional de Endemias S. Tomé e Príncipe (CNE).
Financial support: Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde (CIAS), Universidade de Coimbra, e Associação Portuguesa de Pais e Doentes com Hemoglobinopatias (APPDH).
Duration: 2022-2024
Abstract:
Coordinator: Mario Alberto Arrieta
Participants: Ana Luísa Santos
Financial support: Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Argentina
Reference: PICT-2020- SERIEA-00581, FONCyT
Duration: 01/06/2022-31/05/2023
Abstract: Valle da Gafaria (Lagos, Portugal) has become known as the earliest and largest burial site of enslaved Africans ever found in Europe, predating one of the most shameful chapters of Western history, the Transatlantic slave trade. Bioarchaeological evidence obtained from a total of 158 individuals proves they were of African origin and forcefully deported to Lagos in the 15th to 17th centuries. However from which African regions they were abducted, and at what stages of their lives, remains unknown. This makes it difficult to connect them with descendant communities today and to assess Portugal’s early collusion in the slave trade. The combined analysis of the isotopes ratios of strontium, oxygen, sulfur, carbon and nitrogen is a powerful forensic approach to reconstruct past human environments, diets and mobility patterns during different life stages. We will measure these isotopes in early and late forming teeth in the human remains from Valle da Gafaria in collaboration with Portuguese colleagues to reconstruct individual human origins and to document the rapid changes in life conditions including shifts in geological location, climate and diet, as the result of forced migration from West and Central Africa to Portugal. For the first time, we will utilize novel (and yet unpublished) strontium isotope data from West and Central Africa, including the former Portuguese colony Angola, to determine the most likely native homelands of the enslaved people from Valle da Gafaria.
Participants: Sofia Wasterlain (CIAS), Maria Teresa Ferreira (CIAS), Ana González Ruiz (CIAS, Research fellow), Carina Leirião (CIAS, Research fellow)
Partner institutions: University of California in Santa Cruz
Financial support: National Geographic (Grant # NGS-92850R-22)
Duration: 2022-2023
Abstract: This project utilizes neutron spectroscopy to analyze and understand the properties of bone lesions caused by the spread of cancer cells.
Coordinator: Luis Alberto Batista de Carvalho
Participants: Vítor Matos
Financial support: Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Reference: 2220018 – TOSCA; 2220019 – MAPS
Duration: 2021 – 2024
Coordinator: John Willman
Financial support: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico Individual – 4.ª Edição, Investigador júnior
Reference: https://doi.org/10.54499/2021.02147.CEECIND/CP1656/CT0033
Duration: 2021-2023
Abstract: This project proposes a three-year action plan for the requalification and valorization of the archaeological and paleontological heritage of the Mesolithic complex of Muge (Central Portugal), classified as National Monument since 2011
Coordinator (PI): Célia Gonçalves and Cláudia Umbelino (CIAS)
Financial support: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Reference: ALG-01-0145-FEDER-29680
Duration: 2021-2022
Abstract:
Coordinator: Gonçalo Santos (CIAS)
Financial support: Bolsa de Apoio à “Promoção da Cultura Científica”, Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Coimbra
Reference: IT0176.I.D1
Duration: 16/09/2021-15/01/2022
Abstract: The project has pursued a dual objective. On one hand, it aimed to study the evolution of rural settlement in the Municipality of Santaella (Cordoba, Spain) from Prehistory to the Contemporary Age. In this regard, archaeological surveys have been carried out, with special attention given to the Protohistoric, Roman, and Late Antique Periods. On the other hand, a Heritage Charter has been developed, which has served as a tool for heritage management for the municipal and regional governments.
Coordinator: Mercedes Oria-Segura
Participants: Enrique García-Vargas, Luis-Gethsemaní Pérez-Aguilar (CIAS)
Financial support: Contrato com empresas (Arts. 68/83 LOU), Ayuntamiento de Santaella e a Universidad de Sevilla
Reference: 4325/1133
Duration: 2021
Abstract:
Coordinator: Yichen Rao (CIAS)
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Financial support: Universitas2021
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