LAARD is currently planning to hold online and in-person meetings in the near future. Be sure to join our mailing list and follow us on social media to stay up to date!

1st in person meeting

The LAARD community will hold its first in-person meeting in Turin on Tuesday the 26th of August 2025, just before the start of the ISBA11 conference. A large number of abstracts were submitted for ISBA11, but only a few of the talks could bee accepted, leading to a lot of ORA work to be be presented as posters. We therefore propose for the day of 26 August: to promote the visibility of as much work on lipids as possible, this day will be divided between the following activities:

Talks	Early career researchers whose abstracts have been downgraded to posters for ISBA 11.
Flash-talk or poster session	Dedicated to lipids and to present the posters directly to the community and facilitate discussion around them.
Roundtable	Guidelines for publishing lipid data from an ORA and archaeological perspective: What archaeological information should be provided for each sample? What chemical data should be included in the publication?

To enable us to share coffee breaks and a lunches, we kindly invite participants to contribute to the catering costs. To make your contribution to the LAARD meeting (10€ for students and early career researchers, 15€ for others), please use the dedicated Paypal button (coming soon in this page or in the ISBA website). Your support is essential to help make the first in-person LAARD meeting as friendly and welcoming as possible!

Stay tuned for more details about the programme!

Previous events

1st online meeting

The meeting took place on zoom platform on the 9th of January 2025, Meeting Time: 11:00-14:00 in UK time (6:00-9:00 North America East Coast, 19:00-22:00 Japan/Korea) with a short break.

The programme was as follows:

Session	Details
1st Session	Opening remarks Introduction to LAARD
2nd Session	Lab introductions E. Oras (University of Tartu) J. Lundy and A. Lucquin (University of York) G. Janzen (University of Mainz)
	Short Break
3rd Session	Thematic session on experimental research of lipid residues Talk from M. Zhang (University of Bristol): 'Experimental approaches to the detection of Panicum miliaceum (broomcorn millet) processing in pottery using the miliacin biomarker' Round Table Discussion: Challenges, unexpected and positive outcomes, what is actually an experiment, laboratory vs. field experiments, how to design an experiment? Closing Remarks

To ensure a lively discussion, could you please prepare some remarks or questions based on your experiments?

If you have any further questions, please contact the engagement team (Shinya and Julia).