Presentations

Heintzman, P. D.

Ancient DNA from deep-time sediments.

• • Invited talk, Ancient Biomolecules of Plants, Animals, and Microbes, Hinxton, UK.

Dolenz, S.*, van der Valk, T., Jin, C., Oppenheimer, J., Sharif, M. B., Orlando, L., Shapiro, B., Dalén, L. & Heintzman, P. D.

What's read size got to do with it?: An assessment of reference bias and spurious mapping.

• • Talk, Ancient Biomolecules of Plants, Animals, and Microbes, Hinxton, UK.

  • Accepted for Poster,  SMBE 2024, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Moreland. K.*, Vartanyan, S., Xenikoudakis, G., Jin, C., Merkel, M. K. F., Dehasque, M., Dalén, L. & Heintzman, P. D.

Ancient DNA from Holocene sediments on Wrangel Island.

• • Poster, 5th International PalaeoArc Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.

    • Winner of best poster prize.

  • Poster, Ancient Biomolecules of Plants, Animals, and Microbes, Hinxton, UK.

Wijnands, F.*, O’ Regan, M. & Heintzman, P.

The use of sedimentary ancient DNA to study biotic responses to past climate warming in the Central Arctic Ocean.

• • Poster, 5th International PalaeoArc Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.

  • Talk, Ancient Biomolecules of Plants, Animals, and Microbes, Hinxton, UK.

Schwarzkopf, K.*, O’Regan, M., Overduin, P., Juhls, B., Bröder, L., Haghipour, N., Vonk, J., Lattaud, J., Priest, T., Whalen, D., Matsuoka, A., Pellerin, A., Rudbäck, D., Heintzman, P. D., Rodriguez-Cuicas, M.-E., Bossé-Demers, T. & Fritz, M.

Distribution and Burial of Organic Carbon on the Canadian Beaufort Shelf.

• • Poster, 5th International PalaeoArc Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.

Wijnands, F.*, Koç, N., van der Valk, T., Coxall, H., O’Regan, M. & Heintzman, P. D.

The use of sedimentary ancient DNA to study biotic responses to past abrupt climate warming in the central Arctic Ocean.

• Poster, Arctic Frontiers 2024, Tromsø , Norway.

Dolenz, S. M., van der Valk, T., Dalén, L. & Heintzman, P. D.*

Unravelling Reference Bias in Ancient Faunal Genomic Datasets.

• Invited talk, 31st Plant and Animal Genome conference, San Diego, CA, USA.

Hammarlund, D.*, Frisendahl, K., Wangritthikraikul, K., Ljung, K., Nielsen, A. B., Kylander, K., Dalén, L., Götherström, A. & Heintzman, P. D.

Holocene deglaciation and environmental history of Washington Land and Warming Land, north-western Greenland.

• Talk, Nordic Geological Winter Meeting (NGWM), Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Abstract published in the associated special volume (volume 5, page 344).

Edwards, M.*, Clarke, C., Bigelow, N., Heintzman, P. D., Lammers, Y., Monteath, A., Reuther, J. & Alsos, I.

Terrestrial response to deglacial climate variation in interior Alaska recorded in ancient sedimentary DNA.

• Talk, Geological Society of America (GSA), Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Julián-Posada, I.*, Gil-Romera, G., Garcés-Pastor, S., Heintzman, P. D., Bover, P., Lara-Recuero, J., Valero-Garcés, B., Moreno, A., Alsos, I. G. & González-Sampériz, P.

Primeras evidencias moleculares de actividades humanas en el piso subalpino del Pirineo Central.

• Talk, Asociación Española de Ecologia Terrestre (AEET), Almería, Spain.

Dehasque, M.*, Chacón-Duque, J. C., Heintzman, P. D. & Dalén, L.

Duplicates, duplicates: Reducing ancient DNA sequencing cost by avoiding jumping DNA molecules.

• Poster, International Symposium for Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA10), Tartu, Estonia.

Gilardet, A.*, Douka, K., Lord, E., Heintzman, P. D. & Dalén, L.

Impact of Late and Middle Pleistocene climate change on the evolutionary genomics of megafauna at Denisova Cave.

• Poster, International Symposium for Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA10), Tartu, Estonia.

Elliot, L. D.*, Rijal, D. P., Brown, A., Bakke. J., Topstad, L., Heintzman, P. D. & Alsos, I. G.

Sedimentary ancient DNA reveals local vegetation changes driven by glacial activity and climate.

• Poster, 21st International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Rome, Italy.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Rijal, D. P., Pitelkova, I., Alsos, I. G. & Helmens, K. F.

An 85,000-year old plant and animal community succession in northern Finland.

• Talk, 21st International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Rome, Italy.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Reuther, J. D., Potter, B., Edwards, M. E., Clarke, C. L., Alsos, I. G., Mackay, H., Hildebrandt, K., López, A. & Bigelow, N.

Insights, potential, and pitfalls of sedimentary ancient DNA from non-frozen loess at archaeological sites in Alaska.

• Poster, 21st International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Rome, Italy.

Garcés-Pastor, S., Heintzman, P. D., Zetter, S., Brown, A. G., Lammers, Y., Vannière, B., Tribsch, A., Wangensteen, O. S., Schwörer, C., van Vugt, L., Rey F., Heiri, O., Tinner, W., Coissac, E., Lavergne, S., Giguet-Covex, C., Walsh, K., Ficetola, F., Karger, D. N., Pellissier, L., Theurillat, J.-P., Goslar, T., Schabetsberger, R., PhyloAlps Consortium & Alsos, I. G.

Impact of climate and domesticated mammals on Holocene plant richness in the European Alps revealed by sedaDNA.

• Talk, 21st International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Rome, Italy.

Julián-Posada, I.*, Gil-Romera, G., Garcés-Pastor, S., Heintzman, P. D., Bover, P., Lara-Recuero, J., Valero-Garcés, B., Moreno, A., Alsos, I. G. & González-Sampériz, P.

New insights into early human impact, animal domestication and landscape transformation in the Central Pyrenees (Spain) through sedaDNA analysis.

• Talk, 21st International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Rome, Italy.

Revéret, A.*, Rijal, D. P., Heintzman, P. D., Brown, A. G., Stoof-Leichsenring, K. R. & Alsos, I. G.

Using sedimentary ancient DNA of aquatic macrophytes to reconstruct postglacial freshwater environments.

• Talk, 21st International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Rome, Italy.

Rijal, D. P.*, Heintzman, P. D., Elvebakk, A. & Alsos, I. G.

What else is in the mud? Current status and future potential of environmental DNA in bryophyte research.

• Talk, 21st International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Rome, Italy.

Salonen, J. S.*, Kuosmanen, N., Alsos, I. G., Heintzman, P. D., Rijal, D. P., Luoto, M., Philip, A., Piilo, S., Trasūne, L., Väliranta, M. & Helmens, K. F.

Abrupt early-Holocene climate and vegetation dynamics in a high-resolution lake core sequence from northern Finland.

• Talk, 21st International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Rome, Italy.

Zetter, S.*, Garcés Pastor, S., Lammers, Y., Lavergne, S., Coissac, E., Brown, A. G., Goslar, T., Tribsch, A., Heintzman, P. D. & Alsos, I. G.

Ancient DNA metabarcoding uncovers the effects of climate change and human impact on Austrian sub-alpine lake, Großer Winterleitensee.

• Poster, 21st International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Rome, Italy.

Heintzman, P. D.

Hunting for the causes and consequences of mammoth extinction on Wrangel Island.

• Invited talk, Sedimentary ancient DNA scientific society meeting, Potsdam, Germany.

Revéret, A.*, Rijal, D. P., Heintzman, P. D., Brown, A. G., Stoof-Leichsenring, K. R. & Alsos, I. G.

Macrophyte sedaDNA unravels past environmental conditions in lakes.

• Poster, Sedimentary ancient DNA scientific society meeting, Potsdam, Germany.

Heintzman, P. D.

Reconstructing past ecosystems with ancient DNA.

• Talk, WAF network meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.

Heintzman, P. D.

Old, cold gold: Mining for treasure from the Klondike goldfields.

• Talk, Gästabudet symposium, Stockholm, Sweden.

Heintzman, P. D.

Phylogenomics of living and extinct rhinoceroses.

• Invited talk, 30th Plant and Animal Genome conference, San Diego, CA, USA.

Revéret, A.*, Rijal, D. P., Heintzman, P. D., Brown, A. G., Stoof-Leichsenring, K. R. & Alsos, I. G.

Environmental DNA of aquatic plants: potential for reconstructing past and present vegetation and environment.

• • Talk, BioScan NOReDNA 2022 conference, Trondheim, Norway.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Shapiro, B., Crump, S., Rijal, D., Garces Pastor, S., Zetter, S., Lammers, Y., Brown, A. & Alsos, I. G.

Spatiotemporal biodiversity patterns as inferred from ancient environmental DNA.

• Invited talk, World Biodiversity Forum (WBF), Davos, Switzerland.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Garcés Pastor, S.,  Zetter, S., Lammers, Y., Rijal, D. P., Brown, A. & Alsos, I. G.

High-resolution reconstruction of animal communities from lacustrine sedimentary ancient DNA.

• Invited plenary talk, American Quaternary Association (AMQUA), Madison, WI, USA.

Julián-Posada, I.*, Gil-Romera, G., Garcés-Pastor, S., Heintzman, P. D., Bover, P., Lara-Recuero, J., Valero-Garcés, B., Moreno-Caballud, A. & González-Sampériz, P.

Tracing human impacts from a multi-proxy perspective in the Central Pyrenees: the Tramacastilla lacustrine sequence.

• Poster/flash talk, 6th PAGES Open Science Meeting, Agadir, Morocco.

Heintzman, P. D.

Did we catch them all? An inventory of Alpine mammals from the Holocene.

• • Seminar, Section Seminar, University Museum, Tromsø, Norway.

Heintzman, P. D.

An ancient DNA perspective on the Ice Age megafauna.

• • Seminar, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK (Virtual).

Zetter, S., Tribsch, A.*, Nardi, F. D., Coissac, E., Lavergne, S., Garcés-Pastor, S., Heintzman, P. D. & Alsos, I. G.

Inferring vegetation history using DNA metabarcoding of sedaDNA of Alpine lakes in Austria.

• Talk, 8th Austrian Barcode of Life (ABOL) meeting, Virtual.

De Sanctis, B.*, Pedersen, M. W., Saremi, N., Sikora, M., Puckett, E. E., Gu, Z., Moon, K. L., Kapp, J. D., Vinner, L., Vardanyan, Z., Ardelean, C., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Cahill, J. A., Heintzman, P. D., Zazula, G., MacPhee, R., Shapiro, B., Durbin, R. & Willerslev, E.

Environmental Genomics of Late Pleistocene Black Bears and Giant Short-Faced Bears.

• • Poster, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBEv 2021), Virtual.

Heintzman, P. D.

Mammoths and the oldest-ever ancient DNA.

• • Seminar, Section Seminar, University Museum, Tromsø, Norway.

Zetter, S.*, Garcés Pastor, S., Lammers, Y., Tribsch, A., Brown, A. G., Coissac, E., Lavergne, S., Heintzman, P. D. & Alsos, I. G.

Holocene reconstruction of plant communities and impacts of human activity from sedaDNA in the Austrian Alps.

• • Flash talk, European Geophysical Union (EGU) meeting, Vienna, Austria (Virtual).

Garcés Pastor, S.*, Lammers, Y., Heintzman, P. D., Brown, A. G., Tinner, W., Schwörer, C., Heiri, O., Rey, F., Heer, M., Rutzer, A., Lavergne, S., Coissac, E., Taberlet, P., Theurillat, J.-P., & Alsos, I. G.

Exceptionally rich sedaDNA record from a subalpine lake in the Central Alps reveals plant responses to climate change and human land use.

• • Flash talk, European Geophysical Union (EGU) meeting, Vienna, Austria (Virtual).

Edwards, M.*, Clarke, C., Bigelow, N., Heintzman, P., Potter, B., Alsos, I., & Reuther, J.

Late Quaternary vegetation dynamics in interior Alaska revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) from lake sediment and unfrozen (loessic) archaeological sediments.

• • Flash talk, European Geophysical Union (EGU) meeting, Vienna, Austria (Virtual).

Williams, J.*, Alsos, I. G., Blois, J. L., Bowler, C. Boyer, F., Capo, E., Clarke, C., Coolen, M., Crump, S., Edwards, M., Epp, L., Fernandez-Guerra, A., Goring, S., Grimm, E., Heintzman, P. D., Herzschuh, U., Johnson, M., Mereghetti, A., Meyer, R., Monchamp, M.-E., Nota, K., Parducci, L., Pedersen, M., Perez, V., Rouillard, A., Seeber, P., Shapiro, B., Spanbauer, T., Stoof-Leichsenring, K., Von Eggers, J., Wood, J. & Yates, J.

Building cyberinfrastructure systems to support integrative, macroscale analyses of sedimentary ancient DNA records: current resources, needs, and opportunities.

• • Flash talk, European Geophysical Union (EGU) meeting, Vienna, Austria (Virtual).

Capo, E.*, Alsos, I. G., Ariztegui, D., Armbrecht, L., Barrenechea, I., Belle, S., Bertilsson, S., Bigler, C., Bindler, R., Blahed, I.-M., Blois, J., Bowler, C., Boyer, F., Clarke, C. L., Coissac, E., Coolen, M. J. L., Cordier, T., Crump, S., de, Schepper, S., Doi, H., Domaizon, I., Dulias, K., Edwards, M., Ekram, M. A.-E., Epp, L. S., Everett, R., Fernandez-Guerra, A., Ficetola, G. F., Garces-Pastor, S., Garner, R., Gauthier, J., Giguet-Covex, C., Gregory-Eaves, I., Harðardóttir, S., Harning, D., Heinecke, L., Heintzman, P. D., Herzschuh, U., Kisand, V., Kuwae, M., Lejzerowicz, F., Littlefair, J., Messager, E., Meyer, R., Monchamp, M.-E., More, K., Murchie, T., Nota, K., Olajos, F., Orlando, L., Orsi, W., Parducci, L., Pawlowska, J., Pawlowski, J., Pedersen, M. W., Perez, V., Poulain, A., Ray, J. L., Ribeiro, S., Rijal, D. P., Rouillard, A., Rydberg, J., Schulte, L., Seeber, P., Shapiro, B., Siano, R., Spanbauer, T., Stoof-Leichsenring, K., Suchora, M., Taberlet, P., Talas, L., Thomas, C., Tsugeki, N., Von Eggers, J., Vuillemin, A., Walsh, D., Wang, Y., Weiner, A., Williams, J. W., Wood, J. & Zimmermann, H.

Unifying the sedaDNA scientific community.

• • Flash talk, European Geophysical Union (EGU) meeting, Vienna, Austria (Virtual).

Fellows Yates, J. A.*, Andrades Valtueña, A., Vågene, Å. J., Cribdon, B., Velsko, I. M., Borry, M., Bravo-López, M. J., Fernandez-Guerra, A., Green, E. J., Ramachandran, S. L., Heintzman, P. D., Spyrou, M. A., Hübner, A., Gancz, A. S., Hider, J., Allshouse, A. F. & Warinner, C.G.

Improving access to ancient metagenomic data with the community-curated metadata repository.

• Poster, Ancient Biomolecules of Plants, Animals, and Microbes, Cambridge, UK (Virtual)

Heintzman, P. D.

The potential of directly tracking population genetic changes with sedaDNA.

• Seminar, Sedimentary ancient DNA cyberinfrastructure workshop (Virtual).

Mayfield, R. J.*, Langdon, P. G., Dearing, J. A., Wang, R., Alsos, I. G., Heintzman, P. D. & Rijal, D. P.

Structural ecosystem change in a Holocene chironomid assemblage

• Poster, European Geophysical Union (EGU) meeting, Vienna, Austria (Virtual).

Zetter, S.*, Garces Pastor, S., Lammers, Y., Brown, A. G., Tribsch, A., Coissac, E., Lavergne, S., Heintzman, P. D. & Alsos, I. G.

Holocene reconstruction of plant and mammal communities in the Austrian and Italian Alps.

• • Poster, European Geophysical Union (EGU) meeting, Vienna, Austria (Virtual).

Garcés Pastor, S.*, Heintzman, P. D., Lammers, Y., Zetter, S., Brown, A. G., Walsh, K., Giguet Covex, C., Tinner, W., Schwörer, C., Heiri, O., Lavergne, S., Coissac, E., Vannière, B., Jouffroy-Bapicot, I., Tribsch, A. & Alsos, I. G.

Holocene plant community changes in the Western Alps, as inferred from sedaDNA.

• • Poster, European Geophysical Union (EGU) meeting, Vienna, Austria (Virtual).

Rijal, D. P.*, Heintzman, P. D., Lammers, Y., Bråthen, K. A., Yoccoz, N. G., Brown, A. G., Lorberau, K., Ehrich, D., Pitelkova, I., Goslar, T., Bakke, J. & Alsos, I. G.

Temporal pattern of terrestrial plant diversity in northern Fennoscandia.

• • Poster, European Geophysical Union (EGU) meeting, Vienna, Austria (Virtual).

Alsos, I. G.*, Heintzman, P. D., Rijal, D. P., Brown, T. G., Clarke, C., Bjune, A. E., Lorberau, K., Lammers, Y., Garces Pastor, S., Zetter, S., Yoccoz, N. G., Edwards, M. E., Bråthen, K. A., Poliakova, A., Merkel, M. K. F. Pitelkova, I., Gielly, L., Paus, A., Hughes, P., Haflidason, H., Mangerud, J., Svendsen, J.-I., Schomacker, A. & Goslar, T.

Ancient sedimentary DNA reveals long-term impact of climate change on northern flora.

• • Talk, European Geophysical Union (EGU) meeting, Vienna, Austria (Virtual).

Heintzman, P. D.

Where is the limit? Reconstructing Pleistocene plant communities from the oldest known lake sediment ancient DNA.

• • Seminar, Section Seminar, University Museum, Tromsø, Norway.

Heintzman, P. D.

Ancient DNA in the environment.

• • Seminar, Natural History Museum, London, UK.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Rijal, D. P., Brown, A. G., Pitelkova, I., Ancin-Murguzur, F. J., Clarke, C. L., Edwards, M. E. & Alsos, I. G.

Optimization of efficient ancient DNA extraction from lake sediment.

• • Poster, 20th International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Dublin, Ireland.

  • Poster, American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Heintzman, P. D.

Ancient and environmental DNA research at the University Museum.

• • Seminar, Faculty 'Trade Day', Clarion Hotel, Tromsø, Norway.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Rijal, D. P., Garcés Pastor, S., Lorberau, K., Lammers, Y., Clarke, C. L., Edwards, M. E., Brown, A. G., Bråthen, K. A. & Alsos, I. G.

ECOGEN: a project to examine ecosystem changes and species persistence over time using lake sediment DNA.

• • Talk, 20th International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Dublin, Ireland.

Rijal, D. P.*, Heintzman, P. D., Lammers, Y., Blankholm, H. P., Brown, A. G., Murguzur, F. J. A., Pitelkova, I., Goslar, T., Bråthen, K. A. & Alsos, I. G.

Impact of climate and anthropogenic factors on vegetation history: an ancient DNA based vegetation reconstruction from Varanger, northern Norway.

• • Talk, 20th International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Dublin, Ireland.

Garcés Pastor, S.*, Heintzman, P. D., Walsh, K., Giguet Covex, C., Tinner, W., Schwörer, C., Heiri, O. & Alsos, I. G.

Holocene vegetation changes in the Alps, as inferred from lake sedimentary ancient DNA.

• • Talk, 20th International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Dublin, Ireland.

Alsos, I. G.*, Heintzman, P. D., Brown, T. G., Rijal, D. P., Lorberau, K., Lammers, Y., Garces Pastor, S., Yoccoz, N. G., Edwards, M. E., Bråthen, K. A., Ehrich, D., Jørgensen, T., Sjögren, P. J. & Gielly, L.

How ancient sediment DNA can improve our understanding of past vegetation and the impacts of climate change.

• • Talk, 20th International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Dublin, Ireland.

Shapiro, B.*, Froese, D., Stiller, M., Shirazi, S., Vershinina, A., Porter, T., Heintzman, P., Sadoway, T., Wooller, M., Poinar, H., & Zazula, G.

Rise and fall of the Beringian megafauna: lessons from the Klondike.

• • Talk, 20th International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Dublin, Ireland.

Clarke, C. L.*, Bigelow, N. H., Edwards, M. E., Hildebrandt, K., Potter, B. A., López, A., Olson, L., Lyon, B., Heintzman, P. D., Alsos, I. G. & Reuther, J. D.

Ancient DNA in unfrozen archaeological sediments from interior Alaska.

• • Poster, 20th International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Dublin, Ireland.

Rijal, D. P.*, Lorberau, K. E., Heintzman, P. D., Lammers, Y., Kapffer, J., Støvern, L. E., Yoccoz, N. G., Ehrich, D., Brown, A. G., Alsos, I. G. & Bråthen, K. A.

Comparing sedimentary environmental DNA-based vegetation to current vegetation composition around lakes. 

• • Poster, 20th International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Dublin, Ireland.

Oppenheimer, J.*, Stiller, M., Vershinina, A., Mahony, M., Sadoway, T., Porter, T., Heintzman, P., Wooller, M., Zazula, G., Poinar, H., Froese, D. & Shapiro, B.

The rise and fall of the Beringian megafauna: lessons from the Canadian Klondike.

• • Poster, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Manchester, UK.

Vershinina, A.*, Heintzman, P., Stiller, M., Kapp, J., Gamba, C., Groves, P., Mann, D., Zazula, G., Scott, E., MacPhee, R., Orlando, L., Corbett-Detig, R. & Shapiro, B.

Evolution and extinction of caballine horses in Ice Age Beringia.

• • Talk, 11th North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC), University of California Riverside, USA: Abstract in conference booklet (Paleobios,  36(S1) p362).

Heintzman, P. D.*, Lammers, Y. & Alsos, I. G.

Refining bioinformatic filters for processing metabarcoding data from ultra-low concentration (ancient) environmental DNA.

• • Talk, 8th International Barcode of Life conference (iBoL), Trondheim, Norway: Abstract in conference booklet (Genome,  62(6) p383).

Rijal, D. P.*, Heintzman, P. D., Lammers, Y., Blankholm, H. P., Brown, A. G., Murguzur, F. J. A., Pitelkova, I., Goslar, T., Bråthen, K. A. & Alsos, I. G.

Ancient sedimentary DNA reveals both climatic and human impact on vegetation history in Varanger, northern Norway.

• • Poster, 8th International Barcode of Life conference (iBoL), Trondheim, Norway: Abstract in conference booklet (Genome,  62(6) p427).

Garcés-Pastor, S.*, Heintzman, P. D., Walsh, K., Giguet Covex, C., Tinner, W., Schwörer, C., Heiri, O. & Alsos, I. G.

Long-term plant species turnover in the Alps, inferred from sedaDNA.

• • Talk, 8th International Barcode of Life conference (iBoL), Trondheim, Norway: Abstract in conference booklet (Genome,  62(6) p376).

Alsos, I. G.*, Coissac, E., Merkel, M. K. F., Lammers, Y., Alberti, A., Orvain, C., Dossat, C., Boyer, F., Hollingsworth, P., Parducci, L., Pedersen, M. W., Heintzman, P., Rijal, D. P. & Ehrich, D.

Towards plant barcode 2.0 and its application in environmental and ancient DNA studies.

• • Talk, 8th International Barcode of Life conference (iBoL), Trondheim, Norway: Abstract in conference booklet (Genome,  62(6) p350-351).

Gusarova, G.*, Kamenova, S., Coissac, E., Meyer, P., Steinthorsdottir, L., Loe, L. E., Hansen, B., Utsi, T., Varpe, Ø., Lammers, Y., Heintzman, P., Alsos, I., Justin, I. & Brysting, A.

Multi-locus DNA metabarcoding of diet provides new insights into the ecology and trophic interactions of a keystone herbivore species.

• • Talk, 8th International Barcode of Life conference (iBoL), Trondheim, Norway: Abstract in conference booklet (Genome,  62(6) p380).

Heintzman, P. D.

Implications of the EBP [Earth BioGenome Project] for ancient environmental DNA research.

• • Seminar, UiT/NIVA miniseminar, Tromsø, Norway.

Heintzman, P. D.

Optimization of ancient DNA extraction from lake sediment.

• • Seminar, Section Seminar, University Museum, Tromsø, Norway.

Heintzman, P. D.

The evolutionary and ecological history of ice age megafauna and flora: tales from ancient DNA.

• • Invited seminar, University of Southampton, UK.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Rijal, D. P. & Alsos, I. G.

Species-specific responses of Arctic vegetation to past climatic changes: inferences from sedimentary ancient DNA.

• • Poster, Royal Society symposium on The past is a foreign country: how much can the fossil record actually inform conservation?, London, UK.

Heintzman, P. D.

The evolutionary and ecological history of ice age megafauna and flora: insights from ancient DNA.

• • Invited seminar, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), University of Oslo, Norway.

Alsos, I. G.*, Edwards, M. E., Sjögren, P., Lammers, Y., Clarke, C. L., Brown, A., Heintzman, P. D., Rijal, D. P., Yoccoz, N., Gielly, L. & Blankholm, H. P.

Ancient DNA reveal Holocene environmental change with and without human impact.

• • Talk, 39th Association for Environmental Archaeology, Århus, Denmark.

Rijal, D. P.*, Heintzman, P. D., Brown, A., Blankholm, H. P., Pitelkova, I., Goslar, T., Bråthen, K. A. & Alsos, I. G.

Ancient DNA reveals vegetation history near the archeological site in Varanger, northern Norway.

• • Talk, 39th Association for Environmental Archaeology, Århus, Denmark.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Rijal, D. P., Brown, A. G., Pitelkova, I., Ancin-Murguzur, F. J., Clarke, C. L., Edwards, M. E. & Alsos, I. G.

Optimization of efficient ancient DNA extraction from lake sediment.

• • Talk, 8th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA4), Jena, Germany: Abstract in conference booklet.

  • Poster, 39th Association for Environmental Archaeology, Århus, Denmark.

Froese, D. G.*, Chang, D., Stiller, M., Mahony, M., Sadoway, T., Porter, T., Heintzman, P. D., Vershinina, A., Wooller, M. J., Zazula, G. D., Poinar, H. & Shapiro, B.

50,000 years of environmental change and large mammal dynamics from Central Yukon permafrost. 

• • Talk, Joint Meeting of the Canadian and American Quaternary Associations, Ottawa, Canada: Abstract in conference booklet.

Funck, J.*, Mann, D., Groves, P., Heintzman, P. D., Shapiro, B., Bataille, C. & Wooller, M. J.

The life and times of a mummified steppe bison (Bison priscus) from Arctic Alaska told through his isotopic and molecular chemistry.

• • Talk, 11th International Conference on the Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies, Viña del Mar, Chile: Abstract in conference booklet.

Heintzman, P. D.

Don't judge a lake by its (surrounding vegetation) cover: what influences efficient DNA extraction from sediments?

• • Seminar, Section Seminar, Tromsø Museum, Tromsø, Norway.

Vershinina, A.*, Heintzman, P., Zazula, G., Stiller, M., Kapp, J., Orlando, L., Gamba, C., Corbett-Detig, R. & Shapiro, B.

Paleogenomes shed light on the role of the Bering Land Bridge on migrations of Late Pleistocene caballine horses.

• • Poster, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Austin, TX, USA: Abstract in conference booklet.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Graham, R. W., Belmecheri, S., Choy, K., Culleton, B. J., Davies, L. J., Froese, D., Hritz, C., Kapp, J. D., Newsom, L. A., Rawcliffe, R., Saulnier-Talbot, E., Shapiro, B., Wang, Y., Williams, J. W. & Wooller, M. J.

Determining the timing of extinction for a late-surviving island mammoth population using sedimentary ancient DNA. 

• • Invited talk, Society for Experimental Biology, Gothenburg, Sweden: Abstract in conference booklet.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Froese, D., Stiller, M., Reyes, A. V., Zazula, G. D., Soares, A. E. R., Meyer, M., Hall, E., Jensen, B. J. L., Arnold, L. J., MacPhee, R. D. E. & Shapiro, B.

The arrival of bison in North America. 

• • Invited talk, Society for Experimental Biology, Gothenburg, Sweden: Abstract in conference booklet.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Graham, R. W., Belmecheri, S., Choy, K., Culleton, B. J., Davies, L. J., Froese, D., Hritz, C., Kapp, J. D., Newsom, L. A., Rawcliffe, R., Saulnier-Talbot, E., Shapiro, B., Wang, Y., Williams, J. W. & Wooller, M. J.

Determining the timing of extinction for the last North American mammoths.

• • Seminar, Section Seminar, Tromsø Museum, Tromsø, Norway.

Heintzman, P. D., Wang, Y.*, Newsom, Lee, Bigelow, N. H., Wooller, M. J., Shapiro, B. & Williams, J. W.

The southern coastal Beringian land bridge: cryptic refugium or pseudo refugium for woody plants during the Last Glacial Maximum? 

• • Poster, 8th International Biogeographical Society, Tucson, AZ, USA: Abstract in conference booklet.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Zazula, G. D., Cahill, J. A., Mchorse, B. K., Kapp, J. D., Stiller, M., Scott, E., Macphee, R. D. & Shapiro, B.

Paleogenomics resolves the taxonomy and systematics of Late Pleistocene stilt-legged equids from North America.

• • Talk, 76th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP), Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Abstract in conference booklet.

Maschenko, E. N., Potapova, O.*, Protopopov, A. V., Heintzman, P. D., Kapp, J. D., Cahill, J. A., Shapiro, B., Van Der Plicht, J., Pavlov, I. & Kolesov, S.

A Discovery of a New skeleton of the Mammoth (Mammuthus sp.) from the Sartan Deposits in Eastern Siberia, Russia.

• • Poster, 76th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP), Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Abstract in conference booklet.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Kapp, J. D., Shapiro, B., Graham, R. W., Belmecheri, S., Choy, K., Culleton, B. J., Davies, L. J., Froese, D., Hritz, C., Newsom, L. A., Rawcliffe, R., Saulnier-Talbot, E., Wang, Y., Williams, J. W. & Wooller, M. J.

Determining the timing of extinction for a late­ surviving island mammoth population using ancient DNA from a lake sediment core.

• • Invited talk, 101st Ecological Society of America (ESA), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA: Abstract.

Wang, Y.*, Heintzman, P., Belmecheri, S., Culleton, B. J., Newsom, L., Porter, W. P., Shapiro, B., Williams, J. W. Wooller, M. J., & Graham, R.

Timing and drivers of woolly mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island in the Late Quaternary.

• • Talk, 101st Ecological Society of America (ESA), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA: Abstract.

Wang, Y.*, Heintzman, P., Newsom, L., Wooller, M. J., Culleton, B. J., Belmecheri, S., Porter, W. P., Shapiro, B., Williams, J. W. & Graham, R.

Timing and drivers of woolly mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island in the Late Quaternary.

• • Poster, 24th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association (AmQUA), Santa Fe, NM, USA: Abstract in conference booklet.

Ives, J. W.*, Driver, J., Supernant, K., Froese, D., Shapiro, B., Heintzman, P. D., Lakevold, C. & Kristensen, T.

On the Critical Role of the Peace River Country in Linking Eastern Beringia and the Corridor Region.

• • Talk, 49th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

Cahill, J. A.*, Heintzman, P., Teasdale, M., Sores, A. E. R., Knapp, J., Edwards, C. J., Stirling, I. M., Bradley, D. G., Green, R. E. & Shapiro, B.

Paleogenomics interpretation of admixture between polar bears and brown bears.

• • Talk, 85th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Atlanta, GA, USA: Abstract (American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159(S62), p171).

Heintzman, P. D.

A paleogenomic perspective on the evolutionary history and demography of ice age megafauna.

• • Invited seminar, San Jose State University (SJSU), San Jose, CA, USA.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Zazula, G. D., Stiller, M., Cahill, J. A. & Shapiro, B.

A paleogenomic perspective on the evolutionary history of ice age equids.

• • Invited talk, Plant and Animal Genome XXIV (PAG), San Diego, CA, USA: Abstract.

Zazula, G. D.*, Heintzman, P. D., Cahill, J. A., MacPhee, R. D. E., Hall, E., Southon, J. R., Nalawade-Chavan, S. & Shapiro, B.

Ancient DNA and radiocarbon dates resolve Camelops phylogeny and chronology in Eastern Beringia. 

• • Talk, 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP), Dallas, TX, USA: Abstract in conference booklet.

Librado, P.*, Gamba, C., Heintzman, P. D., Der Sarkissian, C., Ermini, L., Shapiro, B. & Orlando, L.

Equine evolution: a tale from the once flourishing but now extinct diversity of New World equids.

Wang, Y.*, Belmecheri, S., Culleton, B. J., Heintzman, P. D., Choy, K., Davies, L., Froese, D., Hritz, C., Newsom, L., Rawcliffe, R., Saulnier-Talbot, E., Shapiro, B., Williams, J. W., Wooller, M. J. & Graham, R.

Timing and trajectory of mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska based on coprophilous spores, aDNA, and 14C bone dates.

• • Talk, 19th International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Nagoya, Japan.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Zazula, G. D., Stiller, M., Cahill, J. A., Chang, D., Orlando, L. & Shapiro, B.

Population history and the resolution of evolutionary relationships in an extinct group of North American Equus.

• • Talk, Genome 10K, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

    • Fellowship winner

Vohr, S. H.*, Zhang, C., O’Connell, B. L., Freitas, B., Ollivet-Courtois, F., Heintzman, P. D., Shapiro, B., Lareau, L. F., Gagneux, P., Muotri, A. R. & Green, R. E.

Genomic sequence from an F1 chimpanzee-bonobo hybrid.

• • Poster, Genome 10K, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

Soares, A. E. R.*, Novak, B. J., Rice, E. S., Cahill, J. A., Chang, D., Heintzman, P. D., O’Connell, B., Baker, A. J., Peck, M., Willard, D., Santos, K. M., McIntosh, G., Demboski, J., Carpenter, M., Green, R. E. & Shapiro, B.

The fall and rise of the passenger pigeon.

• • Poster, Genome 10K, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

Novak, B. J.*, Soares, A. E. R., Rice, E., Cahill, J. A., Chang, D., Heintzman, P. D., O’Connell, B., Piuiu, D., Salzberg, S. L., Green, R. E. & Shapiro, B.

The genomics of passenger pigeon de-extinction.

• • Poster, Genome 10K, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Zazula, G. & Shapiro, B.

Resolving the evolutionary relationships of two enigmatic ungulates from Pleistocene North America.

• • Invited talk, Plant and Animal Genome XXIII (PAG), San Diego, CA, USA.

Froese, D.*, Heintzman, P., Ives, J.,  Zazula, G., Woywita, R. & Shapiro, B.

Bison dispersal from Beringia into North America via the Ice-free Corridor.

• • Talk, American Quaternary Association (AmQUA), Seattle, WA, USA.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Elias, S. A. & Barnes, I.

Ancient DNA from Beringian specimens of the ground beetle Amara alpina.

• • Talk, Canadian Quaternary Association (CanQUA), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Mullin, V.*, Brace, S., Heintzman, P., Simpson, J., Collins, M. & Barnes, I.

To ZooMS or not to ZooMS that is the question; a comparative study of taxonomic identification techniques: ancient DNA analysis and ZooArchaeology by Mass Spectrometry

• • Poster, UK Archaeological Science and Association of Environmental Archaeology, Cardiff, UK.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Barnes, I. & Elias, S. A.

An assessment of DNA preservation in two species of Ice Age beetle.

• • Talk, QRA Postgraduate Symposium, Aberdeen, UK.

    • • Winner of best talk prize.

  • Talk, Russell Coope Memorial Symposium, Royal Holloway University of London, UK.

  • Talk, Progressive Palaeontology, Cambridge, UK: Abstract in conference booklet.

    • • Winner of best abstract prize.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Barnes, I. & Elias, S. A.

Phylogeography of an Ice Age Beetle using museum and ancient DNA.

• • Talk, Postgraduate Symposium, Royal Holloway University of London, UK.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Barnes, I. & Elias, S. A.

Postglacial recolonisation mode of North American Amara alpina (Carabidae: Coleoptera) using museum and ancient DNA

• • Talk, aDNA aWaY DaY, Durham, UK.

  • Invited talk, to the 'Advances in using museum specimens and ancient DNA in systematics research' session at the 8th Biennial of the Systematics Association (SystAss), Belfast, UK.

  • Invited seminar, Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM), Stockholm, Sweden.

  • Talk, Postgraduate Symposium, Royal Holloway University of London, UK.

  • Talk, Progressive Palaeontology, Leicester, UK: Abstract in conference booklet.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Barnes, I. & Elias, S. A. 

Phylogeography of Ice Age Beringian Beetles: an Ancient DNA Approach. 

• • Poster, Palaeontological Association, Ghent, Belgium: The Palaeontological Association Newsletter 75: S54.

  • Talk, London Evolutionary Research Network (LERN), London, UK: Abstract in conference booklet.

  • Talk, 4th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA4), Copenhagen, Denmark: Abstract in conference booklet.

    • • Winner of best student talk prize

  • Talk, Progressive Palaeontology, Bristol, UK: Abstract in conference booklet.

Heintzman, P. D.*, Tarver, J. E., Ruta, M. & Benton, M. J.

A supertree of Perissodactyla, with investigation into global diversity through time.

• • Talk, Progressive Palaeontology, Birmingham, UK: Abstract in conference booklet.

Heintzman, P. D.

Convergence of horn-like structures in eutherian mammals.

• • Poster, Progressive Palaeontology, Manchester, UK: Abstract in conference booklet. Described as ‘excellent’ in the Palaeontological Association newsletter (No. 69).