The poster, presented at the congress held in Mérida from Monday to Friday, 13-17 May 2013, was on the burial grounds from the 1st to 3rd centuries A.D. found to the east of the ancient Roman city of Tarraco. It is one of the research projects being carried out thanks to the agreement signed between the UIC, the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology and Hospital Joan XXIII in Tarragona. The agreement created a multidisciplinary group of research areas, each with its own specific tools and skills, to help with the work being carried out by Prof. Salagaray.

"My work consists of determining dental diseases in skeletons from Roman Tarraco and is complemented by information provided by the rest of the research group such as the social status, age and sex of the individuals we're studying and the type of burial they were given", explained the professor in the Faculty of Dentistry. "So far, we have studied over 200 individuals".

The study is part of a larger investigation being carried out by Prof. Salagaray, who is participating in a European project to determine whether DNA extracted from dental pulp can reveal the incidence of diabetes in the population. What differentiates her research from that of the investigators from the other participating countries is that theirs is usually done with living people, while Salagaray works with archaeological material. "We know that any information we get from DNA, wherever it comes from, will help us understand diseases better and, subsequently, attempt to treat them", she said.