Biography
I obtained my BSc in Biotechnology from the Polytechnical University of Madrid and MSc in Bioinformatics at the University of Copenhagen, while working in medical transcriptomics. Eventually, I got involved in projects that required the application of bioinformatic skills to large dataset in palaeogenomics and palaeoproteomics. I then worked as a DNRF and Beast to Crafts Research Assistant in computational palaeoproteomics at the University of Copenhagen.
My first contact with archaeology applied bioinformatics, brought me to the McDonald Institute to start a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD within the PlaCe ITN project in September 2021.
Research
My research interests are the study of protein decay processes using mass spectrometry and computational proteomics.
My research project centres on the relationship between the inorganic matrix of amphorae and proteins conserved in it in the eastern Mediterranean. How we can extract those proteins, how well preserved they are in different contexts and what they can tell us about storage, transport and culinary practices are the main questions.
Key Publications
- Rodriguez Palomo, Ismael; Nair, Bharath; Chiang, Yun; Dekker, Joannes; Dartigues, Benjamin; Mackie, Meaghan; Evans, Miranda; Macleod, Ruairidh; Olsen, Jesper V.; Collins, Matthew J. Benchmarking the identification of a single degraded protein to explore optimal search strategies for ancient proteins. bioRxiv 2023.12.15.571577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.15.571577.
- Nair, Bharath; Rodríguez Palomo, Ismael; Markussen, Bo; Wiuf, Carsten; Fiddyment, Sarah; Collins, Matthew James. Parchment Glutamine Index (PQI): A novel method to estimate glutamine deamidation levels in parchment collagen obtained from low-quality MALDI-TOF data. Peer Community Journal, Volume 3 (2023), article no. e10. doi : 10.24072/pcjournal.230. https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.230/
- Viñas-Caron, LC, Palomo, IR, Fazlic, N, Vnouček, J, Driscoll, M, Fiddyment, S & Collins, MJ 2023, 'A biological reading of a palimpsest', iScience, bind 26, nr. 6, 106786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106786
- Ntasi, G., Palomo, I.R., Marino, G. et al. Molecular signatures written in bone proteins of 79 AD victims from Herculaneum and Pompeii. Sci Rep 12, 8401 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12042-6
- Bethencourt, J.H., Palomo, I.R., Hickinbotham, S., Nair, B., Soncin, S., Dieu, M., Collins, M. and Deparis, O., 2022. Data From “A Biocodicological Analysis of the Medieval Library and Archive From Orval Abbey, Belgium”. Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 10(0), p.1.DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joad.89Bethencourt, J.H., Palomo, I.R., Hickinbotham, S., Nair, B., Soncin, S., Dieu, M., Collins, M. and Deparis, O., 2022. Data From “A Biocodicological Analysis of the Medieval Library and Archive From Orval Abbey, Belgium”. Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 10(0), p.1.DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joad.89
- Larupa Santos J, Rodríguez I, S. Olesen M, Hjorth Bentzen B, Schmitt N (2020) Investigating gene-microRNA networks in atrial fibrillation patients with mitral valve regurgitation. PLoS ONE 15(5): e0232719. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232719
Publication
2023
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106786
2022
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12042-6
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.13.483627
Doi: 10.5334/joad.89
2020
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232719
Teaching and Supervisions
2022/23 Supervisor for: A11/B5 From Data to Interpretation
Supervisors: Prof Matthew J. Collins and Prof Marcos Martinón-Torres
