Samantha Presslee
Research Technician
Dr Samantha Presslee is a research technician for the NEaar (North East Amino Acid Racemization) lab at the University of York.
Her background is in archaeological science with a BSc in archaeological and forensic science at Bournemouth University and an MSc in bioarchaeology at the University of York. She completed her PhD at the University of York in 2019, which investigated the survival of proteins into deep time. This involved analysing protein breakdown under different conditions, developing methods to detect degraded proteins and the use of palaeoproteomics in the phylogenetic analysis of fossil taxa.
Samantha will provide technical support for the SEACHANGE project and will be responsible for the operation of the liquid chromatography instrumentation needed to undertake amino acid racemisation analysis.
