PLENARY LECTURES, INVITED TALKS, AND CONFERENCES
For invited university lectures and seminars, see University and School Outreach. For public lectures, see General Public Outreach.
Warinner C. Nobel Symposium Invited Speaker, “Palaeogenomics: Charting the Future of Ancient DNA”, Stockholm, Sweden, May 26-30, 2025.
Warinner C. The milk paradox. Invited lecture, to be presented at the Food Systems Microbiomes – Addressing Global Needs and Challenges conference in Torino, Italy, May 14-17, 2024.
Warinner C. The milk paradox. Radcliffe Fellow Seminar, May 8, 2024.
Warinner C. Dairy Cultures and the milk paradox of the Eurasian steppe. Invited lecture in the Harvard Inner Asian and Altaic Studies lecture series, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 1, 2024.
Warinner C. The archaeology of microbes. Invited lecture, presented at the Darwin Day celebration, “Evolution of humans and human culture – the impact of ancient DNA and the enabling technologies,” at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo, Norway, February 12, 2024.
Warinner C. The evolution and changing ecology of the human microbiome. Invited lecture presented at the 5th Shanghai Archaeology Forum (第五届世界考古论坛·上海), Shanghai, China, December 14-19, 2023.
Warinner C. The milk paradox: a 9,000-year history of a fraught food. Invited seminar presented at the Harvard Archaeology Speaker Series Seminar, Cambridge, MA USA, December 7, 2023.
Warinner C. Dairy Cultures. Invited lecture at the Chinggis Khan Museum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, September 27, 2023.
Warinner C. Dairy Cultures. Opening lecture of the Dairy Cultures: The Science of Mongolian Heritage exhibit, Natural History Museum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, September 22, 2023.
Warinner C. The impact of dairy-based diets on the gut microbiome: a view from Mongolia. Invited lecture, presented at the 13th Asian Conference on Lactic Acid Bacteria: Prospects of Probiotics Based on Lactic Acid Bacteria, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, August 16-18, 2023.
Warinner C. Evolution of the Human Microbiome and Impact for Health and Disease. Invited lecture, presented at the New Frontiers in Reconstructing Human Evolution History, Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Hannover, Germany, May 29 to June 1, 2023.
Warinner C. Archaeology of the invisible. Stanford Archaeology Center Lunch Club, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, May 3, 2023.
Warinner C. Invited panelist, Science Symposium: The future of lost genomes, National Academy of Sciences annual meeting, Washington D.C., April 30, 2023.
Warinner C. A tale of two sugars: the epic human story of amylose and lactose. Invited seminar, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, April 18, 2023.
Warinner C. Invited panelist, Research Ethics Consortium: Human Remains of Questionable Provenance within University Museums, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, March 24, 2023.
Werner Siemens Foundation Colloquium: Microbiome Functional Evolution from Past to Present. Hosted at the Hans Knoll Institute for Infection Biology and Natural Products Research, Jena, Germany, March 20, 2022. Organized by J Fellows Yates, P Stallforth, and C Warinner.
Werner Siemens Foundation Paleobiotechnology Retreat. Rittergut Positz, March 15-18, 2023. Organized by J Fellows Yates, P Stallforth, and C Warinner.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Archaeogenetics Retreat. Ringberg Castle, January 18-21.
Walden JP, Warinner C, Kennett DJ, Hoggarth JA, Green Mink K, Izzo VSR, Ebert CE, Guerra RA Krause J, Awe JJ. Local-Level Approaches to Understanding Social Kinship and Biological Relatedness among the Classic Maya Polities of the Belize River Valley. Lecture to be presented at the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) Conference, Edinburgh, UK 15-17 December 2022.
Warinner C. Archaeology of the Invisible. Invited keynote, to be presented at the annual German Rectors’ Conference, Jena, Germany, November 14, 2022.
Warinner C. A tale of two sugars: the epic human story of amylose and lactose. Invited seminar, to be presented in the Club EvMed online seminar series, Duke University, November 2, 2022.
Warinner C. A tale of two sugars: the epic human story of amylose and lactose. Invited lecture presented in the Department of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series, University of Texas, to be Austin, October 12, 2022.
Warinner C. A tale of two sugars: the epic human story of amylose and lactose. Invited lecture to be presented in the Nutrition and Global Health Program Seminar series, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, October 3, 2022.
Warinner C. Hologenomic adaptations to amylose and lactose in the evolving human diet. Invited talk, presented at the Applied Hologenomics Conference, Bilbao, Portugal, September 11, 2022.
Velsko IM, Warinner C. Distinctive Streptococcus clades characterize oral niches regardless of industrialization status and oral pathology. Presented at the Applied Hologenomics Conference, Bilbao, Portugal, September 2022.
Warinner C. “High altitude food culture in prehistoric Nepal,” Presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings, Chicago, IL, March 30-April 3, 2022.
Rest M, Warinner C. “Breaking out of the mold: imagining new forms of scholarly communication for archaeological science.” To be presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings, Chicago, IL, March 30-April 3, 2022.
Warinner C. The evolution and changing ecology of the human microbiome. Invited lecture presented at the Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA, March 10, 2022.
Warinner C. The evolution and changing ecology of the human microbiome. JAR Distinguished Lecture, presented at the University of New Mexico, March 2022.
Warinner C. Investing in responsible and inclusive science: accessibility, outreach, and education. Invited talk to be presented at the international seminar “Archaeological heritage and its social dissemination: New challenges and proposals for education in equality through museums.” Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, organized by Lourdes Prados Torreira and Ana B. Herranz Sánchez, November 19-20, 2021.
Warinner C. The evolution and changing ecology of the human microbiome. Invited talk to be presented at the workshop “Ancient DNA: from humans to human pathogens and microbiomes.” Department of Genomes and Genetics, Pasteur Institute, organized by Nicolás Rascovan, November 4, 2021.
Warinner C. Seeing together: a transdisciplinary view of our shared human past. Keynote address presented at the 2021 Summer School of the MPI-SHH International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), August 16-27, 2021.
Borry M. PyDamage: automated ancient damage identification and estimation for contigs in ancient DNA de novo assembly. Poster to be presented at the International Society for Computational Biology European Conference for Computational Biology, July 25-30, 2021.
Warinner C. Archaeology of the Invisible: New frontiers in biomolecular zooarchaeology. Invited talk to be presented in the International Association for Archaeological Research in Western and Central Asia (ARWA) webinar series, July 22, 2021.
Warinner C. Ancient biomolecules past and future. Keynote address presented at the 9th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA), Toulouse, France, June 4, 2021.
Velsko I. Tracing human evolution through oral microbiome gene content. Presented at the 9th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA), Toulouse, France, June 4, 2021.
Hübner A. Paleofeces reveal recent loss of diversity and microbial symbionts in the Western gut microbiome. Presented at the 9th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA), Toulouse, France, June 4, 2021.
Borry M. PyDamage: automated ancient damage identification and estimation for contigs in ancient DNA de novo assembly. Poster presented at the 9th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA), Toulouse, France, June 2, 2021.
Fagernäs Z. Potential of archaeogenetic studies of dental calculus to shed light on past human migrations in the Pacific. Poster presented at the 9th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA), Toulouse, France, June 2, 2021.
Fellows Yates J. nf-core/eager: reproducible, portable, and efficient ancient genome reconstruction. Poster presented at the 9th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA), Toulouse, France, June 2, 2021.
Fagernäs Z. Graphic design / pipeline diagrams. Bytesize 15 nf-core webinar, May 25, 2021.
Warinner C. Archaeology of the Invisible: New frontiers in biomolecular zooarchaeology. Invited talk presented to Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia, May 12, 2021.
Fellows Yates J. Making a new institutional profile in nf-core. Bytesize 10 nf-core webinar, April 27, 2021.
Warinner C. Archaeology of the invisible. One of five speakers selected to represent the Harvard faculty at the Veritas Thinks Big freshman recruitment week. To be presented April 18, 2021.
Warinner C. Archaeology of the invisible. MIT Microbiome Symposium. Presented April 15, 2021.
Warinner C. Biomedical archaeology. Partners in Health Seminar. Presented April 2, 2021.
Warinner C. The evolution and ecology of the hominid oral microbiome. Wellcome Trust Symposium on the Ancient Biomolecules of Plants, Animals, and Microbes. Presented March 29-31, 2021.
Warinner C. The Archaeology of the Invisible. Lowell Conversations, Harvard College, February 22, 2021.
Warinner C. The Archaeology of the Invisible. Invited lecture presented at in the Friedrich Schiller University Seminar Series at the Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research, February 4, 2021.
Warinner C. The Archaeology of the Invisible. Invited lecture presented at the UCONN Archaeology Seminar, USA, December 20, 2020.
Warinner C. The Archaeology of the Invisible. Invited lecture presented to the German Archaeological Institute, Germany, December 15, 2020.
Scott A. et al. “Food remains in human dental calculus from the 2nd millennium BCE Southern Levant” Presented at the American School of Oriental Research virtual annual meeting, November 22, 2020.
Fagernäs Z. et al. “Biogeography of the ancient oral cavity,” Presented at the FEMS Online Conference on Microbology, October 31, 2020.
Warinner C. Archaeology of the Invisible. Invited lecture presented in the Martin Aitken Archaeological Science Seminar Series, Oxford University, UK, October 22, 2020.
Warinner C. The evolution and ecology of the hominid oral microbiome. Invited lecture presented in the Journée François Jacob Symposium “Paleobiology” at the College de France, Paris, France, September 28, 2020.
Warinner C. Archaeology of the Invisible. Invited lecture presented to the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, Netherlands, September 15, 2020.
Warinner C. Archaeology of the Invisible. Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture presented to the British Academy, London, UK, December 10, 2019.
Warinner C. Welcome address. Presented at the Wenner Gren Symposium “Cultures of Fermentation,” Sinta, Portugal, October 11-17, 2019. Symposium organized by C. Warinner, J. Hendy, M. Rest, and M. Aldenderfer.
Warinner C. Tracking the invisible: new frontiers in biomolecular zooarchaeology. Invited talk presented at the Proteins and Fibers Inquiry micro-workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, June 27, 2019
Warinner C. “The evolution and changing ecology of the human oral microbiome.” Invited talk presented at the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Institute of Dental Sciences, June 13, 2019.
Hendy J, Warinner C. “The origins and antiquity of dairying.” Presented at the BMBF Microbes on the Move Travelling Conference, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, May 22 and 25, 2019.
Warinner C. “Conference welcome address and opening remarks.” Presented at the BMBF Microbes on the Move Travelling Conference, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, May 21 and 24, 2019.
Warinner C. “The archaeology of microbes.” Invited talk presented at the Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 13, 2019.
Warinner C. “The archaeology of beneficial microbes.” Invited lecture presented at the EMBL Science and Society Conference Reconstructing the Human Past, Heidelberg, Germany, March 31 to April 4, 2019.
Warinner C. “Prehistoric dairying in East Asia.” Presented to the Archaeology Department, Jilin University, Changchun, China, March 25, 2019.
Warinner C. “Evolution and changing ecology of the human oral microbiome.” Presented to the Department of Stomatology, Sichuan Dental School, Sichuan, China, March 19, 2019.
Warinner C. “The archaeology of microbes.” Presented to the Department of Archaeology, Sichuan University, China, March 18, 2019.
Warinner C. “Archaeology of the Invisible: Why archaeology and genetics need each other”. Invited keynote lecture presented at the workshop State of the Field: Archaeological Perspectives on the Ancient DNA Revolution. Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University. Providence, RI, USA, February 22-24, 2019.
Warinner C. “Archaeology of the Invisible: Proteins and Metabolites,” To be presented in the session Mass Spectrometry: New Advances in Chemistry, Archeology, and Paleontology at the AAAS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA, February 16, 2019.
Warinner C. “Reconstructing prehistoric dairy cultures: tracking the spread of dairying on the Eurasian steppe.” International Seminar on Archaeology of Central Asia. Vilnius, Lithuania, January, 14, 2019.
Warinner C. “Dairying on the eastern fringes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppe.” To be presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference in Tandem Style, Transeurasian Millets and Beans, Language and Genes. Jena, Germany, January 9-10, 2019.
Warinner C. “The archaeology of microbes,” Invited lecture to be presented at the EMBL Science and Society Conference Infectious Diseases: Past, Present, and Future. Heidelberg, Germany, November 15-16, 2018.
Fagernäs, Z. et al. ” Systematic testing of a unified protocol for extracting DNA and proteins from ancient dental calculus”. Poster presented at the International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, Jena, Germany, September 18-21, 2018.
Warinner C, et al. “Population migration and dairy pastoralism on the Bronze Age Mongolian steppe,” Presented at the International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, Jena, Germany, September 18-21, 2018.
Fellows Yates, J.A. et al. “Reconstruction of Oral Microbiomes from Extinct and Extant Anthropoids through Ancient DNA”, Talk given at International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, Jena, Germany, September 18-21, 2018,
Warinner C. “Who made the books of the Middle Ages? Dental calculus and the role of women in medieval manuscript production,” Presented at the Max Planck Harvard Center for the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) Symposium and Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting, Jena, Germany, September 17, 2019.
Warinner C. “Early dairy pastoralism on the Bronze Age Mongolian steppe”. Talk presented at the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, Spain, September 5-8, 2018.
Fellows Yates, J.A. et al. “Palaeogenomic Investigation Of 50,000 Years Of The Human Oral Microbiome In The Iberian Mediterranean.” Talk given at European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, Spain, September 5-8, 2018.
Warinner C. “Why ancient dairying?” Presented at the Ancient Proteins meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 21, 2018.
Warinner C. “Heirloom Microbes: The history and legacy of ancient dairy cultures,” Invited lecture presented to J-Milk Japan Dairy Association, Tokyo, Japan, August 3, 2018.
Warinner C, et al.. “Population migration and dairy pastoralism on the Bronze Age Mongolian steppe,” Presented at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution meetings, Yokohama, Japan, July 8-12, 2018.
Fagernäs, Z. et al. ” Systematic testing of a unified protocol for extracting DNA and proteins from ancient dental calculus”. Poster presented at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution meeting, Yokohama, Japan, July 8-12, 2018.
Warinner C. “Heirloom Microbes,” Presented at the Microbial Biodiversity of Traditional Dairy Ecologies workshop, Jena, Germany, June 18-20, 2018.
Warinner C, et al. “Population migration and dairy pastoralism on the Bronze Age Mongolian steppe,” Presented at the Society for East Asian Archaeology meetings, Nanjing, China, June 8-11, 2018.
Warinner C. “The evolution and changing ecology of the human microbiome,” Invited lecture to be presented at the Wellcome Trust, Cambridge, UK, November 20-22, 2017.
Fellows Yates J. “Introduction to dietary metagenomes,” Invited lecture presented at the Paleodietary Workshop, University of Tübingen, September 11-15, 2017.
Warinner C. “The Anthropology of Microbes,” Invited lecture to be presented at the Associazione Genetica Italiana-AAI Conference, Cortona, Italy, September 9, 2017.
Warinner C. “The Evolution and Changing Ecology of the Human Microbiome: Insights from Paleogenomics,” Invited lecture to be presented at the Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung – Fritz-Lipmann-Institut e.V. (FLI) Annual Retreat, Luisenthal, Germany, September 6, 2017.
Warinner C and Hendy J. “Das wiederentdeckte Erbe der Milchbakterien: Eine kulturelle, archäeologische und mikrobiologische Untersuchung der Entwicklungsgeshichte von Milchprodukten,” Presented at the Max Planck Society Donor Meeting, Jena, Germany, June 22, 2017.
Warinner C. “The genetics of grime and dust,” Invited lecture presented at the Science of Parchment Symposium, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, March 23-34, 2017.
Warinner C. “Sampling Dental Calculus for Metagenomics and Proteomics,” Welcome Trust Workshop on Sampling in Biomolecular Archaeology, London, UK, February 23, 2017.
Warinner C. “The anthropology of microbes.” 115th Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 17, 2016.
Warinner C. “Debunking the Paleo myth,” Invited lecture presented at the International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine sponsored by George Washington University School of Medicine and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, D.C., July 29-30, 2016.
Warinner C. “The evolution of our microbial self,” Invited lecture presented at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Queensland, Australia, July 3-7, 2016.
Warinner C. “Long-term genetic stability and a high altitude East Asian origin for the peoples of the high valleys of the Himalayan arc,” Society for East Asian Archaeology, Cambridge, MA, June 8-12, 2016.
Warinner C. “Prehistoric human biology as inferred from dental calculus,” Invited lecture presented at the Ancient DNA and Human Evolution Symposium, UCSD/Salk Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), La Jolla, CA, April 29-30, 2016.
Warinner C. “An empty gut: the recent loss of our microbial symbionts,” Presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meetings, Orlando, FL, April 7-10, 2016.
Lewis CM and Warinner C. “A biocultural assessment of gene flow, the Andes and the Himalayas,” Presented in the High Altitude Landscapes in the Peopling of the New World Symposium at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meetings, Orlando, FL, April 7-10, 2016.
Warinner C. “The evolution and ecology of our microbial self,” Presented at the Evolutionary Biology Impacts on Medicine and Public Health Symposium, AAAS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., February 11-15, 2016.
Warinner C. “Ancient Human Microbiomes,” Invited lecture presented at the Marjorie I. and Bernard A. Mitchell Conference in Human Genetics, “Everything old is new again: frontiers in ancient DNA research,” at the University of Chicago, May 21-22, 2015.
Warinner C. “Diet, Health, and our Microbial Self.” Invited lecture presented at the 10th Annual Frontiers in Genomics conference at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Morelos, Mexico, May 11-12, 2015.
Warinner C. “Begrimed with sweat and smeared all with dust: Prospects for reading the social life of books through bimolecular analyses,” Invited lecture presented at the Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans 2016.
Warinner C. “Data generation from ancient microbiota: Laboratory strategies and considerations.” Invited lecture presented in the Standards, Precautions, and Advances in Ancient Metagenomics conference. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, March 2016.
Warinner C. “Ancient Human Microbiomes,” Invited lecture presented at the 9th Annual International Society for Applied Biological Sciences (ISABS) Conference in Forensics, Anthropological, and Medical Genetics and Mayo Clinic Lectures on Translational Medicine in Bol, Island of Brac, Croatia, June 22-26, 2015.
Warinner C. “Direct evidence of milk consumption from ancient human dental calculus.” Presented at the Society for American Archaeology conference in San Francisco, CA, April 18, 2015.
Warinner C. “Direct evidence of milk consumption from ancient human dental calculus.” Presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists conference in St. Louis, MO, March 25, 2015.
Warinner C. “Reconstructing Our Ancient Microbial Self,” Plenary lecture presented at the Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) conference in San Diego, CA, January, 2014.
Warinner C. “Ancient human microbiomes: the evolution and ecology of our microbial self.” Invited lecture presented at the National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, November 17-19, 2014.
Warinner C. “Promoting healthy Native communities: Collaborative multiomic studies of the human microbiome with the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.” Invited lecture presented at the OU Health Sciences Center, October 28, 2014.
Warinner C. “Reconstructing Our Ancient Microbial Self,” Invited lecture presented at the Joint Conference of 9th International Conference on Genomics and the 3rd International Biotechnology Innovation Forum and Expo in Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen, China, September 9-12, 2014.
Warinner C. “Ancient biomolecules and new possibilities in Mixtec archaeology,” Presented at the Society for American Archaeology 79th annual meetings in Austin, TX, April 23-27, 2014. Conference program.
Warinner C. “Direct evidence of milk consumption from ancient human dental calculus,” Presented at the Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) conference in San Diego, CA, January, 2014.
Warinner C. “A New Era in Paleomicrobiology: Ancient Microbiomes,” Presented at the Royal Society Meetings “Ancient DNA: The First Three Decades” in London, UK, November 19, 2013. Download audio recording.
Warinner C. “Ancient DNA and the Metagenomics of Disease.” Presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Knoxville, TN, April 9-13, 2013.
Warinner C. “Investigating lactase persistence in a Medieval German cemetery: A step towards understanding the rise of the European lactase persistence polymorphism (-13910C/T).” Poster presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Knoxville, TN, April 9-13, 2013.
Warinner C. “Paleopathology and Paleodiet in the Era of Metagenomics.” Presented at the Society for American Archaeology in Honolulu, HI, April 3-7, 2013.
Warinner C. “Dental Calculus: A Novel Biomolecular Reservoir for Paleopathology and Paleodietary Inquiry.” Presented at the Archaeological Sciences of the Americas Symposium in Nashville, TN, October 5-6, 2012.
Warinner C. “Biomolecular Approaches to Recovering Health and Dietary Information from Ancient Dental Calculus.” Paper presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology in Beijing, China, August 2012.
Warinner C. “Dental Calculus: A Novel Biomolecular Reservoir of Ancient Health and Dietary Information.” Invited lecture presented at the Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, MA, April 23, 2012.
Warinner C. “Dental Calculus: A novel biomolecular reservoir of ancient dietary and health indicators.” Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Memphis, TN, April 18-22, 2012. Abstract
Warinner C. “Archaeogenetic and histological analysis of salt mummification under natural and artificial conditions.” Paper presented at the 1st International Symposium on Ancient Cadaver Protection and Research, hosted by the Chinese Museum Association and the Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha, China, September 16-20, 2011. Abstract
Warinner C. “Archaeogenetic and histological analysis of natural mummification under high salt conditions: Investigation of the Chehr Abad Salt Men (1500-2500 BP).” Paper presented at the 2011 World Mummy Congress in San Diego, CA, June 12-16, 2011. Abstract
Warinner C. “From the ground up: advances in stable-isotope based paleodietary inference.” Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Sacramento, CA, March 30 – April 3, 2011. Abstract
Warinner C. “Life and death at Teposcolula Yucundaa: mortuary, archaeogenetic, and isotopic investigations of the Early Colonial Period in Mexico.” Paper presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology in Copenhagen, Denmark, September 7-11, 2010. Abstract
Warinner C. “Establishing open-access online reference collections for archaeobotanical research: macrobotanical, microbotanical, and isotopic data.” Poster presented at the International Work Group for Paleoethnobotany meetings in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, May 31-June 5, 2010. Abstract Poster
Warinner C. “The isotopic diversity of the Middle American dietome: implications for paleodiet reconstruction and the origins of maize agriculture.” Poster presented at the UK Archaeological Science (UKAS) Biennial Conference in Nottingham, England, September 8-10, 2009. Abstract Poster
Warinner C. “More than 100% Maize: The Mesoamerican isotope dilemma.” Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Vancouver, Canada, 2008. Abstract
Warinner C. “Protein-based Approaches to Identifying Tuberculosis in the Archaeological Record.” Paper presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meetings in Philadelphia, PA, 2007. Abstract
Warinner C. “Maize Bread for Everyone? Putting Mesoamerican paleodiet models to the test.” Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006. Abstract
ORGANIZED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics, Summer School co-sponsored by the Max Planck-Harvard Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM), the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), and the Standards, Precautions, and Advances in Ancient Metagenomics community (SPAAM), and financially supported by the Werner Siemens Foundation. Organizers: C Warinner and J Fellows Yates, August 1-5, 2022, https://spaam-community.github.io/wss-summer-school/#/2022/README
Cultures of Fermentation, Wenner Gren Symposium. Hosted at the Hotel Tivoli Palacio de Seteais, Sintra, Portugal, October 11-17, 2019. With financial support from the Wenner Gren Foundation. Organized by C Warinner, J Hendy, M Rest, and M Aldenderfer.
Making and Doing with Microbes: A Fermentation Laboratory. Organized by M Rest. Hosted by the Southern Food and Beverage Museum and sponsored by the National Food and Beverage Foundation. September 7, 2019.
Seeing Microbes Workshop. Organized by the DairyCultures Team and the Blessed by Yak women’s dairy cooperatives. With financial support from the ERC. Khatgal, Mongolia, July 20-29, 2019.
Microbes on the Move, BMBF Travelling Conference. Hosted at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST) and the Kyrgyzstan BIO-KG Federation of Organic Development in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, May 18-26, 2019. With financial support from the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF). Organized by C Warinner, J Hendy, B Reichhardt, and M Rest.
Organizational Committee for the 2018 International Symposium for Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA) Conference, hosted by the MPI-SHH, Jena, Germany
Microbial Biodiversity of Traditional Dairy Ecologies. Hosted at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany June 18-20, 2018. Organized by C Warinner, J Hendy, and M Rest.
Ancient Proteins Practical Workshop. Hosted at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, May 7-18, 2018. Organized by C Warinner and J Hendy.
Ancient Dietary Proteins. Hosted at the Functional Genomics Center Zürich (FGCZ), Zürich, Switzerland, January 29, 2018. Organized by C Warinner, J Hendy, P Nanni, and J Grossmann.
ORGANIZED CONFERENCE SESSIONS
Organized Session: “Ancient Dairying.” Ancient Proteins Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 21, 2018. Organized by C Warinner and J Hendy.
Organized Session: Small Samples, Big Questions: New Methods and Applications in Biomolecular Archaeology. Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Honolulu, HI, April 3-7, 2013. Organized by Amanda Henry, Courtney Hofman, and Christina Warinner.
Electronic Symposium: Current Methods in Paleoethnobotany. Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Sacramento, CA, March 30 – April 3, 2011. Organized by Mac Marston, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, and Christina Warinner.
Symposium: Issues and Methods in Archaeobotany. Society for American Archaeology Meeting, St. Louis, MO, April 14-18, 2010. Organized by Jade D’Alpoim Guedes and Christina Warinner.
SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION
Warinner C, invited participant, Welcome Trust Workshop on Sampling in Biomolecular Archaeology, London, UK, February 23, 2017.
Warinner C, invited discussant for session on “Megafauna from Molecules,” Megafauna and Methods: New Approaches to the Study of Megafaunal Extinctions, organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Archaeology, Jena, Germany, February 20, 2017.
Warinner C., invited participant, Sci Foo Camp, sponsored by O’Reilly Media, Google, and Nature. Held at the Googleplex, Mountain View, CA, August 3-5, 2012.
Warinner C., invited participant, Arbeitsgruppe für Klinische Paläopathologie, Medizinhistorisches Institut und Museum der Universität Zürich und Uniklinik Balgrist Zürich. Sponsored by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Historische Anthropologie der Schweiz (AGHAS), Zurich, Switzerland, December 9, 2011.
Warinner C., invited participant, On History and Deep Time Exploratory Seminar, sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2007.