Teaching and Supervision
Teaching
2023-
Lecturer (6): "Introduction to palaeoecology", "Quaternary climate history", "Dating methods of ancient samples", "The Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions", "Systematics, speciation, and gene flow", "Sedimentary ancient DNA, Part I (communities)"
BL7069: MSc course in Palaeogenetics (15 ECTS) at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Course organizer: Love Dalén.
2023-
Lecturer (2): "Ancient DNA methods and techniques", "Paleoecological applications of ancient DNA from sediments"
GG7023: MSc course in Palaeontology (7.5 ECTS) at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Course organizer: Helen Coxall.
2024-
2023
2019-2022
2018
Invited lecturer: "Ancient animal DNA in the environment"
BIO-3025/8025: MSc/PhD course in DNA Metabarcoding: Data processing and interpretation (5 ECTS) at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
MSc/PhD course in DNA Metabarcoding: Data processing and interpretation (3 ECTS) at the ForBio Research School in Systematics, Norway.
BIO-3025/8025: MSc/PhD course in Molecular identification for species diagnostics: from DNA Barcoding to Metabarcoding (5 ECTS) at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
MSc/PhD course in DNA Metabarcoding: Part 2 - Data processing and interpretation (2.5 ECTS) at the ForBio Research School in Systematics, Tromsø, Norway.
Course organizer: Galina Gusarova (Lucas Elliot in 2023).
2023
Lecturer: "What the rocks say: how geology and paleontology reveal the history of life"
BL5026: BSc course in Evolutionary Biology (15 ECTS) at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Course organizer: Chris Wheat.
2023
Invited lecturer (3): "A brief history of ancient DNA", "An introduction to ancient environmental DNA", "Ancient DNA degradation and authentication"
3610-23-00-00: PhD course in Ancient Environmental Genomics (5 ECTS) at Copenhagen University, Denmark.
Course organizers: Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Martin Sikora, and Antonio Fernandez Guerra.
2022
Invited lecturer: "Ancient environmental metagenomics"
ENV6932: PhD/MSc course in Special Problems in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Genomics at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Course organizer: James Cahill.
2022
Workshop instructor: "Sedimentary Ancient DNA: Introduction and Current Advances"
Pre-conference workshop, AmQUA (27th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Included a keynote lecture:"A history of advances in sedaDNA research" ->
Instructors: Trisha Spanbauer, Caroline Kisielinski, and myself.
Organizers: Trisha Spanbauer, Sarah Crump, and Jack Williams.
2018-2021
2021
Invited lecturer (2): "Sedimentary ancient DNA"
"Systematics, speciation, and gene flow"
BL7052: MSc course in Palaeoecology, Genetics and Human Prehistory (15 ECTS) at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Course organizers: Love Dalén and Anders Götherström.
2021
Invited guest lecturer: "Reconstructing Quaternary biomes with ancient DNA"
GEO310: MSc course in Paleoenvironment and Climate Change (10 ECTS) at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway.
Course organizer: Danni Pearce.
2021
Invited guest lecturer: "Ancient DNA as a tool for paleontology"
OEB/EPS 150: BS course in Exceptional Paleobiological Insights into Animal Evolution at Harvard University, USA.
Course organizer: Javier Ortega-Hernandez.
2020
Invited guest lecturer (Joint with Alisa Vershinina): "Beringia: Bridging the gap between the Old and New Worlds using ancient DNA"
ANBI 117: BS course in Ancient Genomics: Who and how at University of California San Diego, USA
Course organizer: Keolu Fox.
PhD Supervision and Examination
PhD supervision:
2024-
Starts in August
Lauren Clark (Stockholm University)
The impacts of human dispersal on past faunal biodiversity.
Lead supervisor
2023-
Stephanie Dolenz (Stockholm University)
Reconstructing biotic responses to multiple periods of abrupt climate warming using deep-time ancient DNA from terrestrial sediments.
Lead supervisor
2023-
Flore Wijnands (Stockholm University)
Reconstructing biotic responses to multiple periods of abrupt climate warming using deep-time ancient DNA from marine sediments.
Lead supervisor
2022-
Chenyu Jin (Stockholm University)
Establishing a memory-efficient workflow for genome-wide analysis of species with large genome for reconstructing paleo-communities.
Co-supervisor (Lead: Tom van der Valk)
2022-
Alexandre Gilardet (Stockholm University)
Impact of Middle and Late Pleistocene climate change on the evolutionary genomics of megafauna at Denisova Cave.
Co-supervisor (Lead: Love Dalén)
2022-
Vanessa Paynter (UiT)
A paleotranscriptomic approach to rediscover museum and permafrost samples.
Co-supervisor (Lead: Bastian Fromm)
2021-
Aloïs Revéret (UiT)
Sedimentary ancient DNA in Arctic lakes: towards a full-ecosystem reconstruction since the Last Glacial Maximum.
Co-supervisor (Lead: Inger Alsos)
2019-
Scarlett Zetter (UiT)
Palaeoecological reconstruction of the eastern Alps using sedaDNA.
Co-supervisor (Lead: Inger Alsos)
PhD examinations (examiner/opponent):
2024
Maria Zicos, Queen Mary University of London/Natural History Museum, UK
Thesis: Using ancient DNA methods to reconstruct population histories of Neotropical mammals: case studies on extinction and conservation
Supervisors: Laurent Frantz and Selina Brace
2023
Jérémy Courtin, University of Potsdam/Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Thesis: Biodiversity changes in Siberia between Quaternary Glacial and Interglacial Stages
Supervisor: Ulrike Herzschuh
2022
Luise Schulte, University of Potsdam/Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Thesis: Dynamics of Larix (Mill.) species in Siberia during the last 50,000 years inferred from sedimentary ancient DNA
Supervisor: Ulrike Herzschuh
2021
Becky Cribdon, University of Warwick, UK
Thesis: Using sedaDNA from North Sea sediment cores to reconstruct the early Holocene palaeoenvironment
Supervisor: Robin Allaby
2021
Tyler Murchie, McMaster University, ON, Canada
Thesis: Ancient environmental DNA as a means of understanding ecological restructuring during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Yukon, Canada
Supervisor: Hendrik Poinar
2018
Camila Ritter, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Thesis: Assessing biodiversity: Beyond the taxonomic impediment
Supervisor: Alex Antonelli
Read more about Camila's research, which uses eDNA to understand Amazonian biodiversity, at BBC News.
PhD examinations (committee member):
2024
forthcoming
lmke Lankheet, Uppsala University, Sweden
PhD thesis: lnvestigating African population structure using genomes and proteomes (preliminary)
Supervisor: Carina Schlebusch
2024
Natalija Kashuba, Uppsala University, Sweden
PhD thesis: Mended by masticates: A study of archaeogenetic proxies of migration, settlement and health in North Eurasian Mesolithic
Supervisor: Anders Kaliff
Licentiate examinations (examiner/opponent):
2023
Filip Thörn, Stockholm University, Sweden
Thesis: Natural History Collections as a resource to study hybridisation in Birds-of-Paradise
Supervisor: Martin Irestedt
Visiting Researcher/Internship/BSc/MSc Project Supervision
2024
Vanessa Paynter (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway): Paleotranscriptomics.
PhD research stay: I am hosting Vanessa's two-week stay at CPG, which is funded through the UArctic's north2north mobility program.
Rachel Ramos Prieto (UC Louvain): Equid palaeogenomics from Yukon, Canada.
ERASMUS+ internship: Together with Love Dalén, we are hosting Rachel's four-month internship at CPG, which is funded through the ERASMUS+ practice program.
Scott Cocker (University of Alberta): Temporal mitogenomic analysis of Arctic Ground Squirrels from Yukon, Canada.
PhD research stay: Together with Love Dalén, we hosted Scott's one-month stay at CPG, which was funded through a University of Alberta Graduate Student Travel award.
2023
Aurélie Boilard (University of Oslo): Investigating 122,000 years of high-latitude faunal diversity using palaeozoology, archaeology, palaeoecology and ancient DNA.
PhD research stay: Together with Tom van der Valk, we hosted Aurélie's two-week stay at CPG, which was part of the EvoCave project funded through the Research Council of Norway.
2022
Irene Julián Posada (Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologia (IPE-CSIC)): Tracing human impacts from a multi-proxy perspective in the Central Pyrenees: the Tramacastilla lacustrine sequence.
PhD research stay: Together with Sandra Garces Pastor, we hosted Irene's two-month stay in the lab, which was funded through the Spanish State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation.
2019
Enrique Tejero Caballo (UiT): DNA reference databases for Arctic plants: where are the gaps?
ERASMUS+ internship: I hosted Enrique's stay in the lab, which was funded through the ERASMUS+ practice program.
2014-2015
Joshua Kapp (UCSC): Recovering mammoth DNA from Holocene lake sediments.
Bachelor's project supervision
Josh is now a postdoctoral scholar in the UCSC paleogenomics lab.
Data from this project have now been published.
2014
Amy Ortega (UCSC): Investigating eDNA from soil from St. Paul Island, Alaska.
Internship supervision
2013
Mia Waters and Varun Dwaraka (UCSC): The species composition of an archeological charcoal deposit: an ancient DNA approach.
Undergraduate research supervision
Varun is now Head of Bioinformatics at TruDiagnostic.
2011-2012
Roland Preece (RHUL): Recovering nuclear DNA from North American ice age beetles.
Bachelor's project supervision
Data from this project have now been published.
2010-2011
Victoria Mullin (RHUL): Ancient DNA from the Eurasian ice age giant deer, Megaloceros giganteus.
Bachelor's project supervision
Victoria is now a postdoctoral researcher at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Luke Smith (RHUL): The phylogeny of deer: A joint molecular and morphological approach.
Bachelor's project supervision
Classes Assisted at Royal Holloway University of London, UK
2012
2012-2013
2011-2012
2010-2012
2010-2011
MSc Course: Gene Annotations and BLAST
BS2150: Applications of Molecular Genetics in Biology
BS2010: Invertebrate Form and Function
BS1040: Diversity of Life
BS1070: Genetics