Rwanda
The paleobiomics team is working in Rwanda with Dr. Shannon McFarlin on acquiring the skeletons of Mountain Gorillas—many of whom are legacies of Dian Fossey—to understand their lives and ecology from the microanatomy of their bones and teeth.
Karonga
Paleobiomics researchers are studying the metabolic paleo-environment of the Chiwondo biome of the Malawi Rift, the youngest part of the East African Rift System, located in northern Malawi and extending south, east, and west from the town of Karonga. The Karonga Cultural & Museum Centre provides excellent exhibitions on regional prehistory. Lake Chilwa The Paleobiomics Metabolic Ecology Project, focused on Lake Chilwa in southern Malawi, aims to explain how ecological processes are regulated by metabolic rates, which unite at all hierarchical levels from the individual to the biosphere to set the rates at which resources are extracted from the environment and allocated to survival, growth, and reproduction.
Burgos
The Paleobiomics team is working with Dr. Juan Luis Arsuaga on human fossil remains from the Sierra de Atapuerca with Spanish colleagues from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont The Paleobiomics team is working with Dr. Meike Köhler of the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont on the paleoecology and life history of fossil mammals.
Georgia
The Paleobiomics field team began a research initiative to enhance the understanding of the environmental evolution of the Southern Caucasus with a focus on Eastern Georgia, which is a crucial crossroads of African, Asian, and European faunal and hominin dispersals.
frankfurt@paleobiomics.org
Paleobiomics was co-founded by Senckenberg Institute professor Friedemann Schrenk, who directs the Institute’s Department of Paleoanthropology. The hominin collection contains about 70 Homo erectus specimens from Sangiran (Java).
newyork@paleobiomics.org
Paleobiomics was co-founded by New York University professor Tim Bromage, who directs NYU’s Hard Tissue Research Unit, where some of the world’s most advanced microscopes are used to analyze bone and tooth microstructure.
Dr. Timothy G. Bromage
Hard Tissue Research Unit
Department of Biomaterials & Biomimetics
New York University College of Dentistry
345 East 24th Street
New York, NY 10010-4086
USA
Dr. Friedemann Schrenk
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
Sektion Paläoanthropologie
Senckenberganlage 25
60325 Frankfurt
Deutschland
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