MODERN DNA LABORATORY ADDRESS:
Molecular Population Genetics
Smurfit Institute of Genetics
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland
ANCIENT DNA LABORATORY ADDRESS (for archaeological samples):
Archaeological Genetics
Smurfit Institute of Genetics
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Orienting Y-chromosome lineages in space and time.
The human Y-chromosome has been studied for nearly 30 years and vast amounts of data have been generated, allowing for the establishment of genetic relationships between modern human populations.
The advantage of focusing on the Y chromosome is that only a reduced portion of this chromosome undergoes meiotic recombination and, therefore, the haplotypes are preserved and transmitted from father to son through generations.
Despite the wealth of modern human data, many questions regarding the evolutionary and historical past of our species remain unanswered. One of the most debated and controversial problem is the extent of genetic contribution of the early farmers to modern European populations.
With the recent advances of Next-Generation Sequencing technology and target capture, along with its plummeting cost, the field of ancient DNA has been revolutionized during the last few years. During my PhD I will use these techniques to study informative segments of the Y chromosome in Mesolithic and Neolithic skeletons from Western Anatolia and South-eastern Europe.
This project is integrated in the BEAN interdisciplinary research network (Marie Curie ITN) which aims to clarify the origins of settled farming life in Europe and the Europeans themselves.
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS:
2012-Present: PhD Candidate – Trinity College Dublin / Early Stage Researcher - BEANresearch network
2010-2011: MSc Genetics of Human Disease (Merit) - University College London.
Thesis title: Functional Studies of the ANGPTL4 promoter-Institute of Cardiovascular Disease - UCL
2009-2010: MSc Human Biology and Evolution (Hons) – Universidade de Coimbra
Thesis title: Y-chromosome polymorphisms in Coimbra region (central Portugal) – CIAS –Research Center for Anthropology and Health.
2005-2009: BSc Anthropology - Universidade de Coimbra
PUBLICATIONS:
Martiniano R, Coelho C, Ferreira MT, Neves MJ, Pinhasi R, Bradley DG.
Genetic Evidence of African Slavery at the Beginning of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Sci Rep. 2014 Aug 8;4:5994.
Martiniano R., Feitosa Y., Abade A., Manco L.,
Y-chromosome diversity in central Portugal reveals signatures of ancient maritime expansions.
Anthropologischer Anzeiger 70.4 (2013): 355-367.
