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Kim-Louise Krettek

Kim-Louise Krettek
Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment Institute for Archaeological Sciences · Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics

Master of Science
Researching the deep population history of South America using aDNA.

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Additional affiliations
April 2021 - present
Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
Position
  • PhD Student
December 2019 - April 2020
Curt Engelhorn Centre Archaeometry
Position
  • Master's Student
Description
  • During my time at the Curt Engelhorn Zentrum Archäometrie, the data collection for my Master's thesis took place under the supervision of Dr. Orschiedt centering methods of physical anthropology, osteology, and archaeology. The data was later used in the preparation of the actual thesis with the title "Health status and load patterns. The skeletal remains of Lippstadt from the Seven Years' War (1756-1763)."
July 2019 - August 2019
Goethe University Frankfurt
Position
  • Intern
Description
  • During my three weeks of internship, I assisted with various autopsies, sample collection, documentation, and exhumation.
Education
April 2019 - March 2021
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Field of study
  • Biological Anthropology
April 2015 - November 2018

Publications

Publications (3)
Article
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Malaria-causing protozoa of the genus Plasmodium have exerted one of the strongest selective pressures on the human genome, and resistance alleles provide biomolecular footprints that outline the historical reach of these species¹. Nevertheless, debate persists over when and how malaria parasites emerged as human pathogens and spread around the glo...
Thesis
Fundamental research on 18th-century European skeletal remains, especially in a military context, are scarce to this day. However, American scholars have long since recognized the value in analyzing more contemporary remains, however the focus is still on their indigenous as well as ancient slave populations rather than their colonizers. Thus, a la...

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