The Oral Microbiome Evolution Consortium (OMEC)
The Oral Microbiome Evolution Consortium (OMEC) is an international group of archaeologists, anthropologists, microbiologists, and geneticists committed to study of the evolution of the oral microbiome. Founded in 2018 by the Warinner Group, OMEC seeks to expand scientific understanding of oral health and disease by directly investigating the changing ecology and evolution of oral bacteria present in archaeological dental calculus throughout hominid evolution.
Project members include:
Christina Warinner, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
James A Fellows Yates, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Christoph Cupillard, Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Service Régional de l’Archéologie, DRAC Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Matthew C Curtis, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Universität Tübingen
J. Carlos Díez, Laboratory of Prehistory, Burgos University
Dorothée Drucker, Senckenberg Centre HEP, Universität Tübingen
Victoria E Gibbon, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town
Mario Menéndez, Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, National University of Distance Education
Marco Peresani, Sezione di Scienze Preistoriche e Antropologiche, Università di Ferrara
Mirjana Roksandic, Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg
Michael J Walker, Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Universidad de Murcia
Robert C Power, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Domingo C Salazar-García, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Johannes Krause, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Alexander Herbig, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Richard W Wrangham, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Hélène Rougier, Department of Anthropology, California State University Northridge
Courtney A Hofman, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
Katerina Guschanski, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
Louise T Humphrey, Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum
Isabelle Crevecoeur, UMR 5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux
Cecil M Lewis Jr., Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
Franziska Aron, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Allison E Mann, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
Love Dalén, Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History
Amanda G Henry, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University
Rita M Austin, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
Cosimo Posth, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
John W Arthur, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida Saint Petersburg
Manolo R Gonzalez Morales, Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria, Universidad de Cantabria
Sandra Sázelová, Department of Anthropology, Masaryk University
Patrick Semal, Scientific Heritage Service, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Jay Stock, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
Krithi Sankaranarayanan, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
Jiří Svoboda, Paleolithic and Paleoethnology Research Center, Institute of Archaeology (Czech Republic)
Kathrin Nägele, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Cody E Parker, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Lawrence Guy Strauss, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
Irina Velsko, Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University
Katherine Weedman Arthur, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida Saint Petersburg