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  2013.05.16

  PhD defense Kristian Kjellerup Kjeldsen

  Title: Dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet over multiple timescales. Time: Tuesday, 28 May 2013 at 13:15 … »

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  2013.04.25

  mapDamage2.0: Fast approximate Bayesian estimates of ancient DNA damage parameters

  Researchers from the Orlando group now release an updated version of their software mapDamage, two … »

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  2013.04.11

  They swam north to survive

  Many of the large land mammals, such as mammoths and woolly rhinos, didn’t survive the last ice-age. … »

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  2013.04.04

  PhD defense: Sandra Cathrine Abel Nielsen

  Title: Zoonotic viral diseases and virus discovery. Time: Friday, 12. April 2013 at 13:15. Place: The … »

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  2013.03.25

  PhD defense: Søren Overballe-Petersen

  Title: Natural transformation of bacteria by fragmented, damaged and ancient DNA. Time: Friday, 5 April … »

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  2013.03.21

  Inauguration lecture: Kurt Kjær

  Iceland, Siberia and North Greenland are some of the places which have put to the patina on the torn … »

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  2013.03.20

  Monster from the deep hits the surface

  The giant squid is one of the most enigmatic animals on the planet. It is extremely rarely seen, except. … »

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  2013.03.04

  The evolutionary relationship between horses and their extinct and closest living relatives

  Researchers from CGG have characterized the full mitochondrial genome variation of all contemporary … »

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  2013.02.01

  Rock pigeon genome sequenced

  New report in Science: The genome of the rock pigeon has been sequenced by researchers from GeoGenetics … »

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  2013.01.23

  The Genomic History of Denmark.

  The centre has received a 36 mill. DKK grant from Univ. of Copenhagen's dedicated 2016-program. Researchers … »

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  2013.01.21

  A UNESCO-l'Oreal grant 'For Women in Science' to Eline Lorenzen

  Dr. Lorenzen receives the grant for her research in the sequencing of pre-historic polar bear genomes. … »

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  2013.01.16

  Prestigious Sapere Aude grant to Morten Rasmussen

  The young GeoGenetics researcher has received a Sapere Aude – DFF Research Talent grant from the Danish … »

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  2012.12.19

  GeoGenetics' researcher Morten Allentoft is featured among ABC's 2012's top science stories.

  On Australian Broadcasting Cooperation's "2012's top science stories" Dr Morten Allentoft's research … »

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  2012.11.21

  5.689.313 DKK for new project 'Greenland Ice Sheet over the Past Millennium (X_centuries)'

  The funds come from the Danish Council for Independant Research - Natural Sciences and goes to Professor … »

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  2012.11.15

  GeoGenetics research project nominated for videnskab.dk award

  First author Philip F. Thomsen and co-authors Jos Kielgast, Lars L. Iversen, Carsten Wiuf, Morten Rasmussen, … »

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  2012.10.10

  Life returns to frozen lake

  Remote Kaffeklubben Sø (’Coffee Club Lake’) in North Greenland is the World’s northernmost lake. For … »

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  2012.10.05

  PhD defence Philip Francis Thomsen

  Monitoring Biodiversity using Environmental DNA … »

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  2012.10.04

  New approach to the role of natural selection. Publication in Genetics.

  The relative importance of the four fundamental processes driving evolution—genetic drift, natural selection, … »

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  2012.09.27

  Award to Eske Willerslev

  Professor Eske Willerslev is awarded the prestigeous Rosenkjær Award because of his ability to communicate … »

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  2012.08.30

  New DNA-method tracks fish and whales in seawater

  Danish researchers at University of Copenhagen lead the way for future monitoring of marine biodiversity … »

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  2012.08.27

  Genetic uniformity across Europe in the Mesolithic

  Analysing mtDNA and other genomic data from two 7.000 year old skeletons from Northwestern Spain suggests … »

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  2012.08.02

  Aerial photos reveal dynamic ice sheet

  Despite the current and rapid melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, it remains far from certain just when … »

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  2012.07.12

  The Clovis First Theory is put to rest at Paisley Caves

  New international research shows that people of another culture were present concurrently or even previous … »

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  2012.06.24

  Transmission of virus from human to chimpanzee

  In 2010, a chimpanzee died at Copenhagen Zoo following an outbreak of respiratory disease among chimpanzees … »

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  2012.06.22

  Methodological improvements for increasing the yield of ancient DNA templates

  Two new articles follow-up on a previous study which demonstrated the feasibility of sequencing ancient … »

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  2012.06.22

  Next generation sequencing and degradation of ancient DNA

  Next generation sequencing is lending insight into DNA degradation. Overballe-Petersen and colleagues … »

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  2012.06.14

  500 year old mollusc tells about past climate changes

  The marine mollusc Arctica islandica ranks among the longest lived non-colonial animals known to science. … »

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  2012.06.04

  PhD defence - Sarah Fordyce

  Sarah Louise Fordyce defends her PhD thesis "Exploring the potential of second-generation sequencing … »

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  2012.05.29

  Old aerial photos supply new knowledge on glaciers in Greenland

  New research shows that the glaciers in Southeast Greenland can actually recuperate within a short timeframe … »

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  2012.05.24

  Talk by Ernie LaPointe and Eske Willerslev

  The Great Grandson of Sitting Bull will visit the centre 1. June and give a talk at the museum's 'Vin … »

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  2012.05.10

  PhD defence 24. May 2012: Astrid Schmidt

  Ice Core Genetics - uncovering biodiversity from ancient ecosystems in Greenland and Antarctica … »

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  2012.05.10

  Talk by Michael Snyder 14. May 2012

  Adventures in Personalized Medicine: Personal Omics Proflies Reveals Healthy and Disease States … »

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  2012.04.24

  Leeches are DNA-bloodhounds in the jungle

  Researchers have developed a new and revolutionary, yet simple and cheap, method for tracking mammals … »

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  2012.03.21

  Detecting bottlenecks

  In a recent paper published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, researchers at the Centre for GeoGenetics … »

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  2012.03.01

  Sturdy Scandinavian conifers survived Ice Age

  New research shows that some Scandinavian conifers survived the inhospitable ice age climate likely … »

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  2012.02.23

  Editor's choice: DNA leaves a trace

  An article by GeoGenetics' researchers was picked as ‘Editor's choice' in the journal Science in January. … »

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  2012.01.12

  "Aboriginal genome" on Nature's 2011 Science Year in Brief

  At the end of each year the journal Nature looks back on the preceding 12 months of scientific achievements. … »

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  2011.12.29

  GeoGenetics is part of journal Science's "Breakthrough of the year, 2011".

  Following a yearly tradition, Science's editors and news staff have selected one scientific Breakthrough … »

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  2011.12.21

  Ones to watch in 2012: Journal Nature predicts next year's newsmakers.

  Professor Eske Willerslev, Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen. "This year, he tackled … »

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  2011.12.19

  Scientists turn to protein clues to recreate mammoth DNA

  For the first time ever scientists have been able to work backwards by using 126 proteins from a 43,000-year-old … »

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  2011.12.14

  New version of mapDamage

  This Perl script tracks DNA damage patterns among ancient DNA sequencing reads. … »

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  2011.12.12

  The unappreciated killers? Genome evolution of hemorrhagic fever viruses

  Talk by Kristian G. Andersen, PhD Harvard University, Monday December 19th 11am at Centre for GeoGenetics, … »

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  2011.12.11

  A lake fauna in a shot glass

  Danish research team leads the way for future biodiversity monitoring using DNA traces in the environment … »

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  2011.12.02

  A visit from down under

  For a few weeks the Australian summer will be replaced by the cold Copenhagen winter for PhD-student … »

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  2011.11.28

  Inaugural lecture by Professor Tom Gilbert: Genomic Windows into the Past

  The past decade has seen incredible increases in the power of molecular biological techniques, including … »

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  2011.11.17

  4 million Euro for slave trade project

  On the 1. November 2011, ‘EUROTAST', a Marie Curie Actions Initial Training Network was launched. With … »

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  2011.11.02

  Unraveling the causes of the Ice Age megafauna extinctions

  Was it humans or climate change that caused the extinctions of the iconic Ice Age mammals? University … »

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  2011.10.20

  Tracing the first North American hunters

  An astonishing new chapter has been added to North American prehistory with research showing that the … »

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  2011.10.19

  DNA from ancient Danes

  Morten Allentoft has been hired as a post doc researcher at GeoGenetics to study the DNA of ancient … »

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  2011.10.07

  Hair hit the front cover of Science

  Scanning electron microscope image of a strand of hair (about 80 micrometers wide) from the Aboriginal … »

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  2011.09.22

  Aboriginals get new history

  New reserach from the Willerslev group show, that the Aboriginal Australians were the first explorers. … »

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  2011.08.22

  True single-molecule DNA sequencing of a Pleistocene horse bone

  Ancient DNA research has long been limited to the study of short mitochondrial sequences. New article … »

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  2011.08.15

  Large variations in sea ice

  Article in Science by GeoGenetics' staff. … »