Zooarchäologie

Johanna Krueger

Email: j.kruegerspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Address: S560, Hölderlinstraße 12, 72074 Tübingen
 

I am a molecular biologist who is interested in learning about evolution from ancient biomolecules. For my postdoc project at the University of Tübingen, I work on developing new ZooMS markers for South African fauna. With an improved reference dataset, I hope to be able to better identify faunal material found at South African Stone Age sites.

I completed my PhD as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network PUSHH at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. During my PhD, I analyzed ancient proteins from dental enamel of equids. My second PhD project focused on ancient dental enamel proteins from primates.  I computationally assessed how much phylogenetic signal we can expect in enamel proteins from primate fossils. 

Before moving to proteomics, I worked with sedaDNA for my Master's and Bachelor's thesis at the Potsdam University.

Publications

Fong-Zazueta R & Krueger J, et al. (2025): Phylogenetic signal in primate tooth enamel
proteins and its relevance for paleoproteomics, GBE, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf007
(CO-FIRST AUTHOR)

Madupe PP, Koenig C, Patramanis I, Rüther PL, Hlazo N, Mackie M, Tawane M, Krueger J, et al. 
(2025): Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus. 
Science, 388(6750), 969-973.

Kyalo-Omamo M, Junginger A, Krueger J, et al. (2023): Sedimentary ancient DNA of rotifers
reveals responses to 200 years of climate change in two Kenyan crater lakes. Freshwater Biology,
68, 1894–1916

Krueger J, Foerster V, Trauth MH, Hofreiter M & Tiedemann R (2021): Exploring the past
biosphere of Chew Bahir/Southern Ethiopia: Cross-species hybridization capture of ancient
sedimentary DNA from a deep drill Core. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 683010

Rybak A, Bents D, Krueger J & Groth D (2020): The end of the secular trend in Norway:
spatial trends in body height of Norwegian conscripts in the 19(th), 20(th) and 21(st) century.
Anthropol Anz., 5, 415